Queen Street Café
This restaurant has ceased trading.
1 Queen Street
- Food served: Mon–Sat noon–2.30pm; Sun 11am–2.30pm
- Pre-theatre times: N
- Bar open: Mon–Sat 10am–4.30pm; Sun 11am–4.30pm
- Number of wines sold by the glass: 4
- Private dining: N
- Also offers: Gluten-free options, Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access
- Music on stereo: Nothing
- Opening times: Mon–Sun 10am–4.30pm
- Capacity: 70
- Largest group: No group bookings
- Open since: 1990
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Long one of Edinburgh's most respected and revered arts venue eating spaces, the Queen St Cafe will be closed for the next two years while extensive refurbishment takes place within its home, the National Portrait Gallery. The cafe's simple approach and wonderful, inventive food will be much missed, and regulars must wait apprehensively until the new, improved food concession within the gallery – run by the same catering firm as the Dean and Modern Art Galleries – reopens in 2011. [Not due to reopen in 2009.]
Reviews of Queen Street Café (The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh)
- 1. Justine Cullinan, Jamaica, New York, USA – 23 August 2008, 9:54pm
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I can only comment on the pastries, which are quite wonderful (had I stayed in Edinburgh longer my girth would have expanded by about 2 inches), but it is the ambience that enchanted me most. The Cafe reminded me of something out of Bloomsbury and I half expected Virginia Wolff and Lady Ottoline Morell to be sitting quietly at a corner table. In any road it's a wonderful place to have a pot of tea and a pastry and a scribble in one's diary or a writing of postcards or a reading of the paper or any of those quiet activities that are best done in a lovely place ...
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