The Dome Grill Room
- Food served: Sun–Wed noon–10pm; Thu–Sat noon–11pm.
- Bar open: Mon–Wed 10am–11pm; Thu–Sat 10am–1am; Sun noon–11pm.
- Number of wines sold by the glass: 13
- Private dining: 20 / 80
- Also offers: Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access, Outdoor tables
- Music on stereo: Ambient background
- Opening times: Mon–Wed 10am–11pm; Thu–Sat 10am–1am; Sun noon–11pm.
- Capacity: 150
- Largest group: 130
- Open since: 1996
- Average price:
£21 (lunch)
£26 (evening meal) - House wine: £21 per bottle
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It’s hard to imagine a grander and more elegant venue than The Dome. The Grill Room, with its stunning ceiling, mosaic floor and stained glass windows is ideal for chi-chi lunches while the stylish Club Room makes a fine setting for more low-key, intimate occasions. There’s also a parasol-covered terrace to enjoy on a clement day. The menu is best described as ‘classic’, in the same sense as the smart ladies taking afternoon tea beneath the eponymous cupola. Starters of haggis in filo pastry with whisky cream sauce, Caesar salad and smoked salmon are well prepared and presented but unlikely to win prizes for their originality. Likewise the main courses play it safe with a lamb curry looking like an exotic beast amid a sea of upmarket but unremarkable offerings. Herb-coated salmon is well cooked except that the crust sits awkwardly and inexplicably atop the skin side of the fillet. Steaks and meat dishes such as roast venison with wine poached pears, cabbage and chestnuts, however, are sourced with care and cooked to perfection.
- High point: Unsurpassed grandeur.
- Low point: Uninspired menu.
Reviews of The Dome Grill Room (14 George Street, Edinburgh)
- 3. M – 21 December 2010, 7:41pm
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The Dome has one thing going for it and that's the setting; a fantastic building which was most recently a banking hall before being converted to a bar/restaurant. The building interior is simply breathtaking although somewhat spoiled by being decked out in Christmas decorations since October!
In terms of food and service the standards do not live up to the surroundings. Let's be clear here, this is pub grub and not particularly good as that.
Service could be described as friendly but ineffective.
All in all this is not an inexpensive place to eat and the food and service do not justify the cost.
- 2. Louis Jadot, Edinburgh – 23 May 2010, 11:52am
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Service is fantastic, wines are great.
The food is perfectly good quality but is posh pub grub rather than fine dining. You are paying for the impressive surroundings. And actually I think it is a fair price to pay, because you are looked after very well, it cannot be cheap for them to have so many well trained staff.
If it was fine dining then it would have to be even more expensive, and would become too pricey for most. Currently it is an affordable treat and worth visiting for the decor alone.
- 1. parkhouse, The Dome, Edinburgh – 23 May 2009, 1:05pmThe Dome Grill RoomReport
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Six of us had lunch on a weekday in May. It was a warm day and the air conditioning was appreciated. Taking the food quality with the sybaritic surroundings, we felt that the cost was justified. Service was unobtrusive, friendly and professional and the lack of background musak was a plus. It was very busy so booking would be sensible.
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