Museum Brasserie
Chambers Street
- Food served: Mon–Sun 10am–4.30pm
- Number of wines sold by the glass: 10
- Also offers: Vegetarian options (at least ¼ main courses), Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access
- Music on stereo: nothing
- Capacity: 100
- Largest group: 20
- Open since: 2011
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- Average price:
£13 (set lunch) - House wine: £15.50 per bottle
The 2012 edition of The List's Eating & Drinking Guide is out now – only £5.95 (+p&p).
This review is taken from the current (2012) edition.
They invented a lot of stuff, did the Scots, and many of those inventions are on display at the all-new National Museum of Scotland. The equally all-new Museum Brasserie echoes this pioneering spirit by quietly reinventing the tourist attraction dining experience. Their ambitious take means proper food with proper service – no hot plates, no plastic trays and not a wilted chip in sight. Instead, expect home-made modern bistro classics: great burgers, steak sandwiches and fish-cakes, plus some Eastern Med influences. Sweet potato and chickpea fritters are silky, yielding clouds sitting on a puddle of spicy, perfectly soft lentils. Crab adds a strong punch of flavour when added to salmon fish-cakes, and Guinea fowl on tabouleh is sprinkled with pretty jewels of pomegranate (although perhaps could do with a tad more spice). It’s all extremely good. In fact, it’s definitely worth a visit in its own right. Keep in mind though that the Brasserie is indelibly linked to the museum, so plan your visit carefully. Squillions of visitors plus a dinky children’s menu means the place will be impossibly busy in school holidays and August.
- High point: Very well considered menu
- Low point: It will get busy. Really busy. Plan ahead.
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