Grassmarket Edinburgh
visited 22/1/09
This is a good place to go if you can't think of anywhere else. It's pretty good, fairly authentic French cooking. Most of the standards are available and always pretty tasty with a good wine list. This time I had:
Soupe de poisson: disappointing. Completely blended so no texture and too much tomato. Also had been waiting a bit too long for me too eat it with first signs of a skin forming.
Sausage with a vegetable stew. Proper French sausage with some simple boiled carrots and spuds. Fine
Crepes with cointreau: they do a good crepe but like the main course it took too long to get them to the table (the waiter did apologize for short staff in the kitchen)
Wine: nice generic sauvignon blanc and a lovely Pic St Loup which I recommend here.
Not my best visit to the PP but I shall go again. It's a pretty convivial place for dinner with a bunch of people, and you get some clean, strong flavours.
1 comment:
I agree with The Widgeon: Le PP is a cheerful place for a convivial evening where if you don't expect too much then you won't be disappointed. Good atmosphere, service a bit slow, and food perfectly OK, even good but on my visit there was no exchanging of forkfuls and no interruptions in the conversation to allow expressions of pleasant surprise.
Post a Comment