Restaurant 102
- Food served: Sun-Thu noon-8.45pm; Fri/Sat noon-9.45pm
- Private dining: Up to 24 covers
- Also offers: Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access
- Open since: 2006
- Average price 2 courses:
£9.95 (set lunch)
£16 (evening meal) - House wine: £10.95 per bottle
The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2008 is now in the shops. This review is taken from the 2007 edition.
A new family-run restaurant near the waterfront in Musselburgh, Restaurant 102 enjoys a peaceful location and offers a pleasant and welcoming venue for the residents of the town. Softly uplit and with well-spaced wooden tables, it mixes the rustic with the modern in appealing style, incorporating a small public bar and lounge area with leather sofas by the entrance. Economically-priced snacks are served throughout the day, starting with breakfast, then moving onto a line-up including baked potatoes, wraps, nachos, some scaled-down dinner mains and a selection of sharing plates which offer a pick'n'mix selection of the various starter options. The evening dining menu, however, is 102's showpiece. Here, the simpler dishes are an obvious strength: there are various steak, lamb and chicken grills, including tightly-packed house beefburgers, while the thick sirloin and fillet steaks served with home-made onion rings and baked corn on the cob are strong sellers. Slightly less successful are more ambitious dishes such as cod steak and mash with beetroot essence or chicken and haggis with whisky cream, but this is a relatively new venture gradually settling into its market in the varied Musselburgh dining scene.
- High point: Good burgers
- Low point: Near the water but not by the water
Comments
- 1. Mark Walker, Musselburgh – 18 May 2008, 4:19pmReport
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102 was good when it first opened and myself and my partner used to eat there regularly. The menu is simple, but the food was good. It then went down-hill fairly quickly with even the simple dishes becoming very tasteless and bland. We stopped going for about 6 months, then my partner decided that we should give it another go in the hope that it had improved again.
We did go again today, both ordering the special of the day as being the Chef's special, it should be of a decent standard. All I can say is what a disappointment... the portion size was small, the plates were so big that not only did the food get cold quickly, but we couldn't sit directly opposite each other without half our plate hanging off the edge of the table! Our pasta dish was very bland with the sauce tasting like it was straight from a packet, and the basil was a few miniscule flakes from a jar. Come on... how difficult can it be for a 'restaurant' to prepare proper fresh food?! The sticky toffee pudding and ice-cream dessert was equally bland, looking and tasting like the cheapest offering from Cost-Co!
My partner really wanted to like this restaurant, as it is very convenient being a two minute walk away from our house, but we would have received far better food (and quicker service) if we'd gone to Tescos and made it at home. We won't be back.
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