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The dining room at Condita by candlelight, with round wooden tables laid for dinner in the foreground and string-art panels on the white walls beyond.
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Condita

A restaurant with a Michelin star and twelve seats on Salisbury Place, on Edinburgh's south side, serving a surprise tasting menu in the evenings from Tuesday to Saturday.

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There's something special about a restaurant with only a handful of tables, and Condita, on Salisbury Place on Edinburgh's south side, seats just twelve guests.

It holds a Michelin star, and dinner is a surprise tasting menu, so you sit down at a candlelit table without knowing what's coming and let the evening unfold over about two and a half hours. The kitchen cooks with wild and organic Scottish fish, shellfish, meat and game, with produce foraged from the hedgerows and the seashore, and vegetables, fruit and herbs from its own garden. One of its two kitchens is in the dining room, and the chefs and the front of house explain every dish as it arrives. The decor changes with the seasons, and there's no dress code. It opens in the evenings from Tuesday to Saturday, by reservation only, and a vegetarian or pescatarian dinner can be arranged when you book. Keep this one for a grown-up night out.

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Before you go

Dinner only, from Tuesday to Saturday, by reservation.

Ask for a table through the form on its own site; it writes back to confirm and takes a deposit.

Where
15 Salisbury Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1SL.
Open
Tuesday to Saturday evenings, with tables from 6.30pm to 8pm. Closed Sunday and Monday.
Dinner
A surprise tasting menu of about two and a half hours, £170 a head, with paired wines or the wine list.
Booking
By reservation only, through the form on its own site, with a deposit. Up to six at a table; the whole room for up to twelve.
Diets
A vegetarian or pescatarian dinner if asked for when you book; no dairy, egg, allium, soy or gluten free dinner.
Children
Not a restaurant for children.
Dogs
No.
Access
No wheelchair access to the toilets.
Phone
0131 667 5777

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
6.30pm–9pm
Wednesday
6.30pm–9pm
Thursday
6.30pm–9pm
Friday
6.30pm–9pm
Saturday
6.30pm–9pm
Sunday
Closed

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Where it is

On Salisbury Place in Newington, on Edinburgh's south side, EH9 1SL.

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