Martin Wishart

My favourite restaurant in Edinburgh. It is flawless. The ambience and service are always excellent. The food is always divine. It deserves more than one Michelin star. No regrets.

Phoarr! This place is elegant, exquisite and by far the best Michelin star restaurant here in Edinburgh that I have tried so far. I have yet to try 21 212 or Balmoral No. 1. I have been to The Kitchin & Castle Terrace and between the 3, this is by far the best.
I am not going into how all the food taste as we went for the tasting menu and there would be just too much of them to review and remember. Unlike the other 2 Michelin starred restaurant that I have been to in Edinburgh, the food here was very consistent and the flavour and taste just exploded in your mouth with each and every course. I will let the picture which I have taken speaks for itself. How you imagine they would taste like from the picture, it was exactly how they tasted. Let your imagination run wild.
Alternatively, if you have the money, please do come here for the tasting menu and you will absolutely not regret it. I have been to the Gordon Ramsay Restaurant in London which is a 3 Michelin star and this place still trumps the Gordon Ramsay Restaurant. I think this is a restaurant worthy of the next 2 Michelin stars. Expensive but definitely a great experience.

Another winner of a meal from Wisharts. Service spot on, food… too amazing to describe. Overall experience an Edinburgh must-​do. Book in advance, sign up to their online newsletter as you actually get the odd ‘deal’ sent through. their cook school is also worth doing. Last minute offers to be had also.
I stand by my first review. If I could eat like this everyday oh boy would I!!!

Experienced an extraordinary dinner for four.
The food was superlative and I also very much enjoyed that while service was certainly just about perfect (to me that means thorough, knowledgable but unintrusive), there was a warmth and lack of stuffiness to it that is wanting in many Michelin-​starred restaurants and was quite refreshing.
We all very much enjoyed the chef’s tasting with wine pairing and perhaps the best part came at the end when we all eagerly answered YES to whether we’d like cheese to finish our meal.
The server (who wasn’t French, btw, so not all of them are…) came by with the cheese cart and went over the varieties. He was clearly someone who was not only very knowledgable but really seems to love what he does. The four of us decided with him to make two plates, one mild cheeses, one stinky cheeses and wow every one of them was just incredible and went beautifully with the Champagne we ordered to finish the meal with.
Would love to return…

They deserve their Michelin star. We had a great lunch and the service was very good and friendly without going overboard. Why all their waiters are French I do not know but it does not matter as long as the service was as good as it was.

This is very approachable high-​end food and well worth the price. The five course tasting menu with a glass of wine gets you out at about £80. Try to leave room for the cheese if you can — it looks divine but it’s hard to squeeze in after deceptively filling courses.

Best restaurant I’ve ever been to.
Simply superb! I’ve been to the cook school twice also and have had the best time. Can’t wait to go back. Thank you for a great experience

Don’t be scared of the Michelin Star or the formality of the dining room. Service was friendly and the lunch prix fixe is an amazing deal. the day we were there there was a mix of business lunches, a wedding party, a few dates and a few tourists.
They were accommodating to my boyfriends gluten free requirement and the food was, needless to say, top notch. What really impressed me was the wines I ordered. One Borgogne white and a Bordeaux. If I was at the end of my day and no the start, I would have been happy to drink more but alas, it was not to be.
If you do order the foie gras terrine, be warned it is a VERY generous serving. It would easily be enough for 2 – 3 and yes I ate the whole thing.

Faultless food and service, we enjoyed the tasting menu with wine, and managed the extra cheese course too, a beautiful menu and good wine list. Would definitely recommend a visit

This is in my top five places I have ever eaten at. Should you choose to dine here you will most definitely not be disappointed. The food is expertly crafted down to the finest details.
This restaurant truly captures the imagination and is not just a place to go eat a fancy meal, this is a place to have an experience.

One of the best meals I have ever eaten. First of all, they have a vegetarian tasting menu. The service is impeccable. The food was incredible. The place is expensive, but worth it. Don’t miss this restaurant when you go to Edinburgh.

As I live and breathe this was probably the greatest dining experience of my life.
Other half took me on Friday night as a birthday treat, and my god a treat it was. From the moment you walk in the door you know you are somewhere special. Greeted at the door we need not even give them our name, based on the time and without any notes in site he greets us both by name!!!
With no hurry given to reviewing the menu we were instead given a beetroot macaroon with horseradish cream and asked if we wish to have an apéritif. Once that had arrived and we had begun to enjoy it and relax we were then presented with the menu, expertly explained by the waiter.
For me it had to be the tasting menu, other half went for the shellfish tasting menu. We both had the wine pairing. What happened next I don’t have words for:
7 courses of the most exquisite cooking I have ever had the pleasure to witness. From the amuse bouche of 3 tasters including salsify, scallop and salmon mousse, to the scallop with pigs trotter puy lentils, duck with morels, ox tongue and potato… it just kept coming! The wine with each course seemed to get better, some how not clahing against the last.
At the end of the meal we were privileged enough to be taken on a tour of the kitchen. If this is was michelin dining is about… I want more of it.
To say this place is JD Recommended is as big an understatement as can be made! :)

Surprised by the small amount of reviews?
This place in my opinion is the best of the Michelins in Edinburgh (and yes I have tried them all.) I feel like I could eat the food here every day, there is a lightness of touch in the preparation that really comes through when compared to it’s ilk.
Recommending the set lunch, very good value at £27 for 3 courses. Thing about michelin places is the bread is always very good so you can stock up on that as they will never refuse you more (thrift recommendation #1)
Service is attentive but not stuffy even though the room is pretty formal. You can tell everyone involved here is really interested in good food from the lowest water pourer up to the head chef.
If you have the budget come and eat here. I would recommend getting a bottle of wine from a shop and drinking it on the picnic benches at the shore before you go in. The wine list is good but the markup is over 300% in places. Plus the water of leith can be nice on a good day. (Thrifty tip #2 — Edinburgh has no open container law so don’t worry about kicking about with a bottle of wine).

The service is impeccable, the food amazing (though not in my opinion better than the Three Chimneys in Skye), along with a fantastic wine list. I had the tasting menu with wine, and an extra cheese course which is well worth the experience. I don’t really like the décor though, but that seems to come part and parcel with Michelin starred restaurants.

Absolut Top und im oberen Beeich der 1 Sterne-​Restaurants. Gediegenes Ambiente, perfekter aber etwas steifer Service und Speisen von Feinsten. Wir hatten das 6 Gänge-​Degustationsmenue für 70 Pfund pro Person und aufgrund meiner leider etwas dünnen Englischkenntnisse, weiß ich auch leider nicht so ganz, was ich genau gegessen habe. Klasse war dazu der etwas kostspielige, aber durschaus lohnenswerte korrespondierende Wein.

Every time someone tells me that there is no place to eat a good food in UK I always think about fresh fish in Ullapool and about Martin Wishart (maybe The Grainstore as well) in Edinburgh and about a few others but the MW will be always my favorite. I chose this place for my wedding dinner. Starter: Millefeuille of veal sweetbreads & Kindeys; Main Course: Roast loin of burnside farm rabbit; dinner: cylinder of jivara chocolate + coffee espresso/​espresso macchiato (the best I’ve ever got on the island).

OK this was one of the best places in Scotland we had in our tripl The artichoke soup was rich creamy with flavors of truffles and a great dish. We had the tasting course and found it a pretty decent tastng menu. There were about 2 stand out dishes like the soup and the rest were about a 7 – 8 which in our personal 1 – 10 rating is pretty respectable. I would give this place about a 8 to 8.5 out of ten. It was a solid performer but not yet at a French Laundry level but worth a visit if you are traveling to Scotland or for a special occasion.

It would be a little ridiculous for me to review the food in this place. It’s got a Michelin star, and, if the rumours are right, it’s on the brink of another. So just accept the food is really incredible. In fact, it’s more than food. It’s art. Art you can eat. The very best kind of art. So instead of talking about the food, I’m going to talk about my experience of Restaurant Martin Wishart.
First off, it was my 21^st when I went. A big occasion. From the moment we arrived to the moment we left we were treated like royalty. The waiters (all men, all French) were attentive but not intrusive. When they weren’t needed they sort of lurked in the shadows, then appeared out of nowhere ready to assist.
We had the tasting menu with the matching wine menu to go with it, plus the supplementary cheese board coz we’re greedy. Now it has to be said that this cost approximately the same as a small yacht, or 6 weeks in the Seychelles (that’s hyperbole!), but it was really worth it. Our waiter talked us through all the wines, explaining why it matched. And when we’d finished they brought me a plate which had petit fours delicately arranged and ‘Happy 21^st Birthday’ written in chocolate. A very, very special experience indeed.

This is one of the only Michelin Star Restaurant in Edinburgh. It’s located off the beaten track (or in other words, down at Leith) and is something quite special to Edinburgh. I quite like getting in a taxi and going down to Leith, it almost feels as if I’m in a different city altogether!
The restaurant is funky, as my mum described it. It’s nice, modern and clean, but maybe could do with a touch more excitement. But you don’t go to a Michelin Star restaurant for the décor. The food was, as expected, delicious. The best part is there is always a good deal on to eat here, so you can get amazing food for next to nothing!
I had lamb with vegetables in an orange sauce, which was YUMMY and my dad had steak, which he loved.
It’s a brilliant place to come to for a special occasion!

I’ve been to Martin Wishart so many times, and I have to admit its one of my favourite restaurants EVER, and I’ve been to many good eateries both at home and abroad. The atmosphere there is really good, and I can’t commend it enough. Obviously the best thing about this place is the food, which is simply amazing. So well prepared, fantastically presented, with a really good wait time (quick compared to other ‘posh’ restaurants). You really can’t beat the selection on the menu at Martin Wishar, and the prices aren’t too bad either. The staff are also fantastic, which really leads me to recommend this restaurant. One of the best in Edinburgh!

This restaurant thoroughly deserves its Michelin star. The service is, as is to be expected, immaculate. The food delicious and different. Try the tasting menu to experience a range of taste treats and wonderful wines to accompany them.
Skip the coffee though.