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Dulse

A seafood restaurant from the chef Dean Banks on Queensferry Street in the West End, with a wine and cocktail bar downstairs and the restaurant upstairs.

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Dulse is a seafood restaurant on Queensferry Street in Edinburgh's West End, and it's the place to go when you want Scotland's fish and shellfish at their freshest.

It's from the chef Dean Banks, who set it up as a neighbourhood seafood restaurant, and it comes in two halves. Downstairs is an intimate wine and cocktail bar with small plates to share, and upstairs is the restaurant, with a seasonal menu inspired by Scotland's coastline, served à la carte or as a tasting menu. Expect Shetland mussels, Skye langoustines, oysters and scallops, with a wine list that leans to the Old World and reaches from Portugal to Armenia. There's an oyster happy hour from five to six on weekdays, a lunch menu and a children's menu too, and it's in the Michelin Guide. Dulse opens every evening and from midday Wednesday to Sunday, and you can book through its own site. There's a second Dulse in Leith.

Round the cornerLennoxA restaurant and bar from Nico Simeone on Queensferry Street in the West End, cooking beef dry-aged in house over fire, with small plates, handmade pasta and cocktails.1 min by roadSee itA long red leather banquette and dark tables in the dining room at Lennox, below lit shelves of books, vases and ornaments in dark wood panelling.
Before you go

Open every day: from 5pm on Monday and Tuesday, and from midday Wednesday to Sunday.

Book through its own site, by phone or on WhatsApp.

Where
17 Queensferry Street, in the West End, EH2 4QW.
Open
Monday and Tuesday 5pm to 10.30pm; Wednesday to Sunday 12pm to 10.30pm.
Oysters
An oyster happy hour from 5pm to 6pm, Monday to Friday.
Booking
Through its own site, or by phone or WhatsApp on 07429 415739.
Children
A children's menu.
Dogs
Allowed, by Google's record.
Access
Google's record gives wheelchair-accessible seating and toilet; the restaurant is upstairs, so ring ahead.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
5pm–10.30pm
Tuesday
5pm–10.30pm
Wednesday
noon–10.30pm
Thursday
noon–10.30pm
Friday
noon–10.30pm
Saturday
noon–10.30pm
Sunday
noon–10.30pm

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Where it is

On Queensferry Street at the West End, EH2 4QW.

Close byThe West End.
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  2. The Pompadour dining room in the Caledonian hotel, with white-clothed tables and turquoise chairs under an ornate plaster ceiling, painted wall panels and a gold-framed mirror.1925 at The PompadourThe restaurant of the chef Dean Banks in the Pompadour, an A-listed dining room of 1925 in the Caledonian hotel at the West End of Princes Street, with views to the castle.Under a mile 1 min by road
  3. Dean VillageDean VillageA milling village of the 1100s on the Water of Leith, a few minutes' walk from the West End, now a quiet cluster of old stone houses by the river.Under a mile 2 min by road
  4. Johnnie Walker Princes StreetJohnnie Walker Princes StreetJohnnie Walker's eight-floor whisky house on Princes Street, in the old House of Fraser building, with the Journey of Flavour tour and a rooftop bar.Under a mile 2 min by road
  5. Restaurant interior with a living plant wall reading "beer, hae, meatKyloeAn independent steakhouse on Rutland Street at the West End, cooking Scottish beef from chosen farms and butchers, with an AA Rosette.Under a mile 2 min by road
  6. Inside the Palmerston, a high-ceilinged former bank with bentwood chairs, a patterned tiled floor by the bar, globe lights and tall arched windows.The PalmerstonA restaurant and bakery in a former bank on Palmerston Place in the West End, butchering whole animals in-house and changing its European-style menu every day.Under a mile 2 min by road
  7. BABABABAMezze, a charcoal grill and cocktails from the eastern Mediterranean, at 130 George Street, with Scottish lamb, beef and seafood on the coals.Under a mile 3 min by road
Directions
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Two red cocktails with dried orange garnish poured beneath bar tapsRestaurantsTonic0.6 miles
Ross Fountain in Princes Street Gardens with Edinburgh Castle behindAttractionsRoss Fountain0.6 miles

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