TIMBERYARD

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Seeing The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum asks for time and efforts, so if you feel hungry afterwards, come to this restaurant for a tasty meal. The wonderful flavours of British and Scottish cuisines attract numerous customers. Here you will be offered good flounder, pork and lamb. Try tasty strawberry dessert, vanilla ice cream and biscuits. TIMBERYARD will offer you delicious orange wine, stout or whiskey. Don't miss the opportunity to try great tea, espresso or lemonade.

You can arrange an anniversary, a wedding or a birthday party here. A number of visitors suppose that the staff is professional at this place. Guests say that the service is nice here. Reasonable prices are what you are to pay for your meal. As most reviewers affirm, this place provides the fine decor. It's a Michelin one-star restaurant, the award is usually given for serving delicious food.

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A MICHELIN star: cuisine of great finesse. Worth the step!
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A big red door indicates that you have arrived at this rustic warehouse conversion, in which the chefs practise a culinary ethos that centres around outstanding produce and letting it speak for itself... More info

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Stopped in for lunch service. What an incredible menu. The flavors were decadent and the service was top tier. Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5 Meal type: Lunch
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Not as great as other Michelin starred restaurants in town but has its own special character and vibe. Great local Scottish products and wines. Food: 5 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 4 Meal type: Lunch Price per person: £100+
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There is a particular arrogance to fine dining, a way it has of announcing how clever it is, and I walked into Timberyard braced for exactly that. A Michelin star. A converted Victorian timber warehouse in the shadow of the castle, all whitewashed brick and monastic candles and beams the size of ship masts. Every box ticked for a place that is about to spend two hours telling you how important it is. And then they bring out the vegetables, and you understand you have got it completely wrong. Because here is the quietly radical thing this family has done. In a country that built its whole culinary identity on meat and more meat, in a room that could charge whatever it likes for a slab of something, they have made the vegetables the main event. There is a course called simply a selection of vegetables from the farms, served with a cured duck egg, summer truffle and grilled sunflower, and it is not a polite gesture toward the herbivores at the table. It is the point. It is the thesis. It is a Michelin kitchen, freshly awarded a Green Star for treading lightly on the land, deciding that a beetroot pulled from Scottish soil that morning deserves the same reverence most places reserve for a fillet. Everything here tastes of somewhere. The smoked Tweed sea trout came with nasturtium flower and tayberries, bright and floral and unmistakably of this place. A heirloom tomato and beetroot tartare with horseradish and camelina had no business being as deep and savoury as it was. The turbot, with garlic scapes, brown butter and smoked roe, was cooked by someone who clearly loves the fish too much to mess with it. Hispi cabbage and girolles with cherries and salted Kampot pepper made me a little angry that a cabbage can be that good and I have been wasting my life. Before the sweet, a cheese course: a Spenwood, an unpasteurised Berkshire ewe's milk with a nutty backbone, and a pasteurised cow's milk from the Inverloch dairy out on the Mull of Kintyre, local and grassy and quietly brilliant. They came with local honey and a tomato and apple chutney that I would happily have eaten by the spoonful. And then the strawberries. Border strawberries with lemon thyme and pineapple weed, and our server mentioned, almost in passing, that the chef had picked those berries that morning with his young daughter. I am not made of stone. I was sitting there with my own son, two generations at one table eating fruit picked by a father and his girl at the other end of the chain, and the entire ethos of the place landed in a single bowl. This is not marketing. These are people who mean it. That is the thing about Timberyard. It has every reason to be pretentious and it simply refuses. It takes the local, the seasonal, the foraged and the grown-out-back, and then it gets out of the way. The room is beautiful, the service is warm and unhurried, and the food says, over and over, in a hundred quiet ways: this is where we are, this is what the land gave us this week, we hope you were paying attention. We were. Go hungry, go curious, and let the vegetables surprise you. Five stars, and a table I would cross an ocean to sit at again. Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5
££££ Price range per person £100
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10 Lady Lawson St
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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10 Lady Lawson St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Outdoor seating Сredit cards accepted Booking No delivery No takeaway Wheelchair accessible Wi-Fi TV
Opening hours
SundaySun 12PM-3PM
5PM-11PM
MondayMon Closed
TuesdayTue Closed
WednesdayWed 5PM-11PM
ThursdayThu 12PM-11PM
FridayFri 12PM-3PM
5PM-11PM
SaturdaySat 12PM-3PM
5PM-11PM
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