Cruz Bar and Restaurant
- Food served: Mon–Sun noon–9pm
- Bar open: Mon–Sun noon–1am
- Number of wines sold by the glass: 10
- Private dining: Up to 100 covers
- Also offers: Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Outdoor tables, Live music
- Music on stereo: Club music from through the years.
- Opening times: Mon–Sun 11am–1am
- Capacity: 80
- Largest group: 100
- Open since: 2006
- Average price:
£6.95 (set lunch)
£11 (evening meal) - House wine: £9.95 per bottle
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It tries to do lots of things with varying degrees of success, but no one can deny that Cruz is among the most distinctive drinking and dining venues to be found in Edinburgh. A First World War minesweeper boat permanently moored on the Water of Leith right in the heart of Leith’s buzzing Shore district, it offers open-air drinking on the top deck and on bench tables at the end of the gangway. On sunny weekend afternoons it’s the place for a young, clubby crowd to be seen, with DJ nights, live bands on Saturday, open mic nights and jazz events adding to the vibrant atmosphere. A bar food menu is also served, featuring rather well-done diced chicken kebabs served with pitta and salsa, a range of functionally topped thin-crust pizzas (the Del Mare uses crabsticks) and a fresh but undressed Greek salad. A more extensive a la carte menu of Italian antipasti, pizza and pasta is served on the restaurant deck – expect to pay a couple of pounds more than the price shown above – but it’s those who are here to drink who will get most reward from this party boat.
- High point: A unique alfresco drinking and dining venue
- Low point: It can get noisy
Reviews of Cruz Bar and Restaurant (14 The Shore, Edinburgh)
- 2. Beth, Edinburgh – 31 July 2011, 7:58pm
Cruz Bar and RestaurantReport -
Went here last week to eat in the a la carte restaurant.
Hard to comment too much on the food as, after 70 minutes of waiting, we hadn't received our main course so left. This was after being reassured by the waitress that the wait for food that night was 15-20 minutes and then, after that (several times), that our main courses were 'just coming'. This didn't seem to be an isolated problem - others seemed to wait almost as long (and there were only 4-5 tables in at any time).
We had a bowl of olives to keep us going and some bruschetta; neither were bad, but both are incredibly simple dishes. There was a single choice of beer offered - San Miguel. The house red was drinkable, if thin-tasting.
Add an unwiped table, smeared cutlery and glasses, and a seemingly overpriced menu into the mix and it's safe to say we won't be back. Maybe the bar and bar food aspects of Cruz are better...
- 1. dale, edinburgh – 7 March 2010, 11:09am
Cruz Bar and RestaurantReport -
We went there as hadn't tried there before but was a little skeptical due to looks from outside.
Restaurant upstairs was beautifully laid out.
We had great service from the moment we entered.
I had tiger prawns in filo pasty and they were amazing! Followed by fillet steak, pepper sauce and chips. I asked for this medium rare and it was done to perfection and melted in your mouth!
The downside to this place was the fact were on our own on a Saturday night; I think it's a shame this place was not busier.
I'd recommend this place anytime!
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