The Café Royal is a seafood restaurant in New Town, Edinburgh.
Editorially verified August 24, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
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Fishers in Leith on The Shore in Edinburgh, open since 1991 in a seventeenth-century watchtower, a seafood kitchen running East Coast fish and shellfish.
OrderThe whole East Coast lobster with chips and salad, or the roast monkfish with peas.
TipWalk-ins are welcome. Ask for the cosy round room by the bar rather than the main restaurant, or a table outside by the water when it is dry.
Tom Kitchin's Commercial Quay dining room in Leith, Edinburgh, opened in 2006 and held a Michelin star within seven months, the kitchen that brought Scottish.
OrderThe seasonal Rock Pool starter and whatever lands fresh from the Anstruther day-boats that morning.
TipLunch is half the dinner price and runs the same kitchen. The Tom's Sunday lunch (the chef's table) gets cancelled less than the evening tasting if you book it.
Martin Wishart's Shoreside Leith dining room in Edinburgh, opened in 1999 and Michelin-starred since 2001, the city's longest-running modern French tasting.
OrderThe eight-course Tasting Menu or the half-priced lunch tasting served Tuesday to Friday.
TipLunchtime four-course menu at £50 is the value play; same kitchen, same sommelier, half the dinner price.
The Radford family's foraged-and-fermented kitchen on Lady Lawson Street in Edinburgh, opened in 2012 and Michelin-starred since 2024, a courtyard dining.
OrderThe full tasting menu at dinner; let the kitchen send what is best that day from the garden.
TipThe summer terrace under the oak in the courtyard is the best dining seat in the city when the weather permits.
Sam Yorke and Tom Hagger's Henderson Street kitchen in Leith Edinburgh, opened 2021 and Michelin-starred 2024, an open-pass small-plates room.
OrderWhatever has come off the Scrabster fish auction that morning and the cured-egg-yolk opening course.
TipThe bar counter takes four walk-up seats from 18:00 if your booking falls through. Same menu, better view of the pass.
Stuart Ralston's Shoreside Leith fine-dining room in Edinburgh, opened in 2024 and Michelin-starred within twelve months, a 14-seat tasting counter.
OrderThe full chef's tasting menu; this is a counter-only kitchen designed for the set sequence.
TipCounter seats numbers 1 and 14 face the open pass directly. Tasting menus only; no a la carte.
