great find
lovely lunch . menu was varied with local ingredients and seasonal choices, good wine choice. service well timed and charming set price and al a carte
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Maybe it was the prosecco before, and the cocktail, and then the wine, but I think I fell a little bit in love with Cafe St Honore. I'm all about being transported by food, and this tucked-away restaurant does that: the floor tiles, the chairs, the candlelight.
Along with some very quaffable red wine, we had the cafe classic menu - limited options but great value (two courses for £18 or three for £23.50): a pork rillette rolling around with hazelnuts, apples and amazing croutons (I could feel my arteries lining themselves with fat - in a good way) then melt-in-the-mouth venison stew with buttery mash. We shared a perfectly crisp and flavoursome treacle tart that went so well with the dollop of creme fraiche on top. Oh and there was delicious crusty bread (soda, I think) with amazing butter that was so thick and rich and creamy it might as well have been cheese.
Portions are generous, atmosphere great and service friendly (lack of photos I'm afraid due to the lovely staff taking my jacket, where my phone was, on arrival).
I half expected to see the Eiffel Tower when I went outside. Then again, it might have been the prosecco; and the cocktail, and the wine...
Cafe St Honore is a real local’s favourite, it serves daily-changing, gluten-free and dairy-free menus using the best local, seasonal and sustainable British ingredients. The owner Neil Forbes is one of Scotland’s most interesting characters leading the slow food movement in Edinburgh, baking his own bread every day, writing columns in the national newspapers, teaching and cooking at lots of live events – surprisingly he still has time to make incredibly good food for the fans of Café St Honore!
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