Brasserie - No. 11 Boutique Hotel (Broughton)

• Brunswick Street is tucked in to the area between Elm Row and London Road
• The row of houses that No 11 is part of is surprisingly elegant
• They break with the rest of the street
• The buildings are four stories
• Its pillars and wall are painted a rich
• The room we saw was also gorgeous
• Since this is Edinburgh Foody
• The brasserie is in the front room
• A typically Georgian room with tall ceilings and elegant proportions
• The walls were hung with colourful pictures by Chloë
• The brasserie is open for lunch
• Ryan Smith is the head chef
• Dishes that are well cooked and shows off the ingredient&rsquo
• S working on snacks and dips that are healthy as well as delicious
• We tried some home made chips and vegetable leathers with home made dips
• I enjoyed the lamb with a young and very sharp lime pickle
• The lime pickle worked well with the lamb and I enjoyed the texture and tart flavour of the peel on the generous lime wedges
• These dishes are not yet on the menu
• The sample dinner stays traditional and safe with Scottish favourites like cullen skink
• Ryan mentioned varying portion sizes and as a meat eater with a tall vegetarian boyfriend
• The vegetarian main is often a tiny little thing
• The offer that I purchased was 'Scottish Tapas' for two and IT WAS AMAZING
• The food itself was beautifully presented and tasted wonderful
• We even got to a small (piping hot) frying pan so that we were able to fry the strips of steak to our liking
• If you have no problem with totally disengaged and sloppy service
• The service is just so bad
• The main course fish was cooked to a better standard than I experienced on my recent visit to Gamba
• The front of house people are entirely disengaged and too busy doing other things
• Is a considerable shame as some of the cooking on offer is impressively good
• Whether it was because of the voucher or its stardard Afternoon Tea from them I wasn't that impressed
• The fillings were good and varied though
• Our cake selection was a small piece of banana bread which was tasty
• There was a small cake thing in a wrapper which I think was supposed to be shortbread
• Again to me this was over cooked and too hard
• Maybe other food is better and worth the money but I wouldn't pay full price for this
• I think it was possibly the best afternoon tea I have had anywhere (and I've sampled a fair few)
• The sandwiches (so often disappointing) were fresh and delicious
• As was the moist and generous selection of cakes and the scones were as good as they looked
• Falling in line with past reviews I'd agree the service was slightly haphazard but this was mainly caused by an air of awkwardness due to language barriers
• After embracing this we found the staff to be both polite and took every opportunity to engage with us and give their own unbiased recommendations
• My starter of mussels pakora was something I've not encountered
• It also avoided any resemblance to chewing a tyre which can so easily occur with squid when cooked a few seconds too long
• Overall the starter was was more Michelin
• Baileys cheesecake with raspberry &
• The dark chocolate was most definitely apparent
• Lacklustre drinks cabinet with most spirits and draught being more supermarket sweep
• I have only been at Brasserie n11 for afternoon tea and I was a bit disappointed
• Not what you expect when you are in for afternoon tea
• The room where it was served was nice
• The room was large and comfortable with a lots of storage
• On our first evening the five course taster menu was included in the price
• The dining room is really quite dark and the meal was over in an hour
• 63.50 each which was quite rich for what we ate
• Overall I would recommend this hotel as the staff were very attentive and our stay was good

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