Frankfurter Eck
- Food served: Tue–Fri noon–9pm; Sat 10am–10pm; Sun 10am–6pm. Closed Mon
- Also offers: Children's portions, Outdoor tables, Free wi-fi
- Music on stereo: Easy listening
- Opening times: Tue–Fri 9am–9pm; Sat 10am–10pm; Sun 10am–6pm. Closed Mon.
- Capacity: 16
- Largest group: 20
- Open since: 2011
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- Average price:
£10 (lunch)
£11 (evening meal) - BYOB: Free corkage
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.
German food can suffer from people's unfair preconceptions. Seek out Edinburgh’s first German restaurant, Frankfurter Eck to have these prejudices overturned. Behind a blink-and-you’ll miss it frontage on an unlikely block is a basic interior with minimal décor. It’s not a place to see-and-be-seen, but what it lacks in glamour it makes up for in quality home-cooked German food with excellent service to match. Just a curtain separates diners from the kitchen where chef Joseph Kuouh conjures up dishes such as sauerbrauten, lusciously-marinated beef pot roast, and jӓgerschnitzel or ‘hunter style’ pork. Yes, it’s comfort food, but to call it simply meat and potatoes does it no justice at all. The same applies to sides of satisfying dumplings and spӓtzle – familiar to expats from the Homeland who frequent this gem of a place along with locals discovering German cooking. Desserts include delicately-fried apple with ‘winemousse’ froth, and slices of surprisingly light, nutty apfelstrudel. A legend on the wall says it all: ‘We welcome you as guests, but we part as friends.’ Frankfurter Eck will certainly win the affections of those who give it a go.
- High point: There's no better introduction to German food
- Low point: Premises rather basic for some tastes perhaps
Reviews of Frankfurter Eck (62 Elm Row, Edinburgh)
- 2. M – 29 January 2012, 7:37pm
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We made a point of visiting Frankfurter Eck as we are fans of good wholesome German cooking and the menu on the website promises some staple offerings.
This is a small venue, very small, which makes it all the more surprising that you have to wait so long for everything. Service was polite, but far too slow, dispelling the myth of Teutonic efficiency. It's also a bit run down and tired which does not add to the overall atmosphere.
The menu is pretty short and the dishes should be easy to prepare; nothing wrong with that but given this you would really expect the execution to be spot on. Unfortunately the dishes matched the service. A lack of seasoning coupled with mediocre preparation left us feeling really disappointed.
Nicht gut!
- 1. JemmaEatWorld, Edinburgh – 31 October 2011, 11:18amFrankfurter EckReport
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If you've been looking for tasty German food in Edinburgh, search no further. Frankfurter Eck offers a range of German classics; including the soft drink spezi (a mixture of Coke and Fanta). The menu is full of what is usually expected of German fare; lots of meat and potatoes, with a few suprises thrown in.
The menu, although short, is quite comprehensive. My dining partner ordered potato dumplings and fried pork, whilst I opted for fried potatoes and currywurst. There was the perfect amount for two people, although we did feel a bit sleepy afterwards.
The potatoes cannot be faulted; dumplings were tender and tasted amazing dipped in the pork gravy, while the fried potatoes had a lovely crisp to them.
Currywurst isn't my favourite (I'm not sure why I ordered sausage in the first place) but I could taste that it was good quality German style sausage with a good bite to it and gently flavoured with herbs.
As for the pork, it really stood out. The gravy was rich and flavoursome, while the pork itself was soft and just melted away on the tongue.
The mains came in pretty pricy at around a tenner each (with a few quid extra for the sides), so it's not somewhere you could go every day. It's BYOB though, which does help with the overall cost.
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