Blue

Cambridge St, Edinburgh

visited 13/06/09

This is a favourite failsafe of mine. It's above the Atrium and shares the kitchen, providing some good, reliable cooking. The menu is fairly predictable "modern British", but with fresh, clean flavours that manage to be interestingly combined without being pretentious. I had a risotto with baby broad beans and mint (I don't think the rice was Arborio, though, and it lacked that kind of creamy richness) which was very fresh and zingy. Then loin of lamb, which was basically old-fashioned roast lamb, with some well-cooked vegetables and a caremelized crust in a proper reduction. A nice change from the pink, spring lamb you normally get. The wine list is quite expensive--I've noticed before here that the best bargains are classic French wines, strange to say, and we had a nice, if unexceptional claret.