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Three courses from Cardinal's tasting menu on a dark table, with a loaf of bread in a wooden bowl and a small dish of butter.
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Cardinal

A tasting menu restaurant on Eyre Place led by the chef patron Tomás Gormley, cooking Scottish produce, more and more of it from its own kitchen garden in Midlothian.

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Cardinal is a dark, intimate dining room on Eyre Place, on the Canonmills side of Stockbridge, led by the chef patron Tomás Gormley.

It serves seasonal tasting menus built around Scottish produce, and more and more of it now comes from the restaurant's own kitchen garden, a regenerative smallholding at Bramblewood Farm in Pathhead, Midlothian, where tomatoes, courgettes, beetroot, salad leaves, herbs and flowers are grown for the kitchen. The tasting menu is served at every lunch and dinner, there's a longer Full Cardinal Experience for a special evening, and a market menu at lunch from Thursday to Saturday is built around whatever the garden sends in. It's in the Michelin Guide and rated Very Good by the Good Food Guide. Cardinal opens for dinner on Wednesday and for lunch and dinner from Thursday to Saturday. Book a table online, and if the time you want has gone, send them an email and they'll do their best to fit you in.

Close bySmith & GertrudeA wine and cheese bar in Stockbridge, opened in 2015 by Amy and Duncan Findlater, with more than 150 wines on its list and cheese to match.2 min by roadSee itSmith & Gertrude
Before you go

Dinner on Wednesday, and lunch and dinner from Thursday to Saturday.

Book online, or email if the time you want has gone.

Where
14 Eyre Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5EP.
Open
Wednesday 5pm to 8.30pm; Thursday to Saturday 12pm to 2pm and 5pm to 8.30pm. Closed Sunday to Tuesday.
The menus
The tasting menu at every lunch and dinner, the longer Full Cardinal Experience, a market menu at lunch from Thursday to Saturday, and a three-course set menu at weekday dinner and early on weekend evenings.
Booking
Online through its own site; if nothing suits, email the restaurant.
Private dining
The whole restaurant for up to 24, or a private room for up to 10.
Phone
0131 305 2049

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
5pm–8.30pm
Thursday
noon–2pm, 5pm–8.30pm
Friday
noon–2pm, 5pm–8.30pm
Saturday
noon–2pm, 5pm–8.30pm
Sunday
Closed

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Where it is

On Eyre Place, between Stockbridge and Canonmills, EH3 5EP.

Close byStockbridge, Canonmills and the New Town.
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