Prezzo
- Food served: Mon–Sun noon–11pm
- Number of wines sold by the glass: 2
- Also offers: Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access, Outdoor tables
- Music on stereo: Quiet, downbeat pop
- Capacity: 100
- Largest group: 30
- Open since: 2008
- House wine: £11.95 per bottle
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Prezzo in Edinburgh's Newhaven Harbour is one of two sojourns north of the border for an ambitious London-based chain that aims to offer value-for-money Italian food in stylish contemporary surrounds. An aim which has, to some extent, been accomplished here. It is certainly a stylish space: sensitive lighting, sleek feature walls and enormous windows overlooking the harbour create a warm, airy restaurant with room for both family parties and intimate couples. Unfortunately the same quality is not necessarily applied to the food, and with all the ingredients sourced centrally, some standards fall by the wayside. Still, the menu is far from expensive, and offers a wide range of imaginative combinations to go with pasta, on pizza, or in a salad. So, a 'stretched to order' Fiorentina pizza comes topped with spinach, a perfectly cooked egg and fresh mozzarella. It looks appetising, though the gas-fired pizza oven somehow manages to make it taste of charcoal without getting the base crispy, so it's disappointingly chewy. Starters are a wee bit perkier: deep-fried mozzarella is perhaps somewhat pub-kitchen, but is perfectly enjoyable for that and, thankfully, desserts prove to be a bit of a bargainous high point, particularly as a hazelnut ice-cream bombe weighs in at only £2.75.
- High point: The view over the harbour
- Low point: Chewing the chewy pizza
Reviews of Prezzo (25 Pier Place, Edinburgh)
- 3. macneill, Edinburgh – 5 August 2010, 1:40pmPrezzoReport
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What a disappointment. We had often walked past this place and finally gave it a try last night. It was awful.
First, the ambience is more Stansted than friendly neighbourhood restaurant. The space is clinical and very uninspired, with tinny music echoing round the vast warehouse. There were about ten people in. The menu is safe, to say the least; nothing that you haven't seen hundreds of times before. No steak, dammit. In fact, very little meat on the menu at all.
Prawns came swimming in an all-purpose red sauce that had the raw metallic taste of a tin. The Caesar salad, which was not especially cheap, had brown-edged leaves and was miserly in its proportions. The Carbonara was dry and tasteless. No depth to it. If you're going to go for double cream and full-fat cheese as a basis for your dinner, you want to justify it on the grounds of flavour. Not the case here - in fact, worst we'd ever come across. The pizza, for all the theatrical dough-flipping going on in the open kitchen, was very poor. Tasteless dough, tasteless blah toppings. I've had better delivered by moped.
Service was thoughtful enough, except for the grumpy one. The wine we had was fine. Dinner for two including tip = £70.00
What a mistake. The city is awash with Italian restaurants - there's absolutely no need to settle for this.
- 2. Not even slightly impressed......., Waterfront, Edinburgh – 29 July 2009, 11:28pmPrezzoReport
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I arrived at Prezzo with my boyfriend to be greeted by a very nice young waitress who was directing us to a table when her Manager called her over, and promptly told her not to seat us but ask us to sit on a couch for approx 25 minutes.
Although the place was half empty the 'kitchen' had decided that they were far too busy to serve us.
When i approached the Manager she told us that it was not her decision to ask us to wait and offered us no alternative but to sit and wait..... we promptly left and will not return.
NO STAR RATING !!!!
- 1. Magnus, Newhaven – 22 March 2009, 2:17pm
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Booked at very short notice which was little difficult over the phone (some language difficulties) however when we arrived the service was excellent. Food was very well presented and a good standard but not amazing. My gilrfriend had the ravioli and it was very dry and there was very little sauce. The decor was very tasteful and had a very modern feel which suited the experience. This place will be very nice in the summer which you can sit outside lookiing over the harbour. I will be going back at some point without a doubt.
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