Ivory Bar & Restaurant
Southside
- Average price 2 courses:
£9.95 (set lunch)
£18 (evening meal) - House wine: £10.95 per bottle
- High point: Classy bistro food
- Low point: Chart tunes spilling in from bar
- Food served: Sun-Thu noon-4.30pm, 5-9pm; Fri/Sat noon-4.30pm, 5-10pm
- Bar open: Sun-Thu noon-11pm; Fri/Sat noon-midnight
- No. overnight rooms: 11
- Open since: 2001
- Also offers: Childrens portions, Childrens high chairs, Wheelchair access, Pre-theatre menu
This Southside restaurant (with hotel) is just up and over the hill from Battlefield Road, looking out onto Queen's Park. Understandably, tables in the conservatory with a view are most in demand, though sitting through the back is just as pleasant and a bit less hectic. Either way, book first as the Ivory regularly fills up, in part thanks to a pre-theatre menu (that runs all night Monday and Tuesday). The menu appears designed to have wide appeal, with some nice twists. For example, a haggis fritter coated in tempura batter has an east Asian influence, accompanied by sweet chilli jam. Mussels are served in a creamy tomato broth that's rich and spicy - mopped up with fresh brown bread that staff gladly replenish. Main courses change monthly and can include stylish classics such as medallions of beef. A flaky and moist salmon fillet comes underneath a poached egg and goat's cheese. Its bold flavours are balanced by a milky, herb-infused leek reduction. All desserts are made in-house, and manager Josephine Gurie's favourite (with good reason) is cheesecake with delicate strawberry-rippled mascarpone.
Comments
- 1. ladyK, The Ivory – 27 February 2008, 9:57pmReport
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I visited the Ivory with 5 friends tonight 27 February 2007 for our usual monthly get together. We have been here several times before and then had a bad experience with it being very cold and food not so good, anyway we decided to give it a second chance only to have to wait for drinks to be served for almost 10minutes after we ordered, when each of us arrived. The starters were all very nice, then the mains came, two had ordered a steak & black pudding pie, both were cold, these were returned and came back with the pastry burnt, two ordered salmon, which was overcooked and served on very limp, unappitising salad. One had veggie haggis which was ok , the other had the fish and chips which was really good. The most disappointing part of the night was the Waitress who said she was the manager, when she came to remove our almost full plates ( we just could not eat it) and asked if everything was alright, she became very rude saying that we had not been nice to her or Daniel (waiter), all we did was order - politely, then she went onto say "i dont think you girls came out to have a good time tonight," you have not been nice since you arrived! Obviously we took offence at this as we are first of all not "girls" but secondly, we have the right to complain if the food is poor which this was and to have that feedback, accepted and normally apologised for, not to have the waitress be rude. She did come back and say she would take the cost of 2 meals off the bill, but this was not the issue, we dine out frequently and know good quality. We certainly will not darken their doorstep again.
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