Reviews Bonnie & Wild's Scottish Marketplace

This is situated inside the Scottish Marketplace at new St James Centre,Edinburgh at the junction of Princes St. and Leith Walk. There is an absolutely amazing array of restaurants to choose from covering most popular cuisines. After much debate we plunked for Salt&Chilli and had some wonderful Katsu chicken dishes with rice and salt& Pepper fries. It was a great pre concert meal. You could come here 10 times and never be dissatisfied with the choices. Bill was a reasonable £42 for 2 meals,soft drinks, coffees a shared large slice of cake.

There's a good mix of cuisines to choose from. Some of the prices are steep especially for the portion sizes, but the food was delicious. Some of the counters are out of certain food if you go in the evening. If you're seated near the speakers, the music is a bit too loud. Other than that, it's a lovely atmosphere. There's halal chicken at a couple of the counters, ask them on the day, they're very helpful in pointing you to other halal counters.

This review is two in one since I cannot write separate reviews for Bonnie & Wild and the restaurant/ food stand from which we ordered our food. Let’s start with the food shall we? Stack & Still I believe that’s what it is called, is a pancake food stand with both sweet and savoury options and the ability to create your own custom pancake. I chose a banana with chocolate caramel double stack(I’m a sweet tooth in case you hadn’t noticed it yet) and my wife a beef barbacoa double stack (she is more a savoury type). The pancakes were quickly served and were very delicious. If you were to eat here I would recommend this food stand. 4 stars. Now comes the not so nice bit and thats why I’m a bit annoyed that I cannot write two separate reviews. The thing is that the service of Bonnie & Wild itself is rather lacklustre and appalling. When we arrived there was no queue or anyone of the personnel to appoint us a table. So we decided to pick one ourselves. After ordering our food we thought of moving to different free table because of the size of our first choice. While we were moving we got told that the specific table in question was for 4 people only. Fine. The waitress did point us to to a different place that was adequate so we decided to go there instead. While again moving our stuff to this bench we got stopped by a different employee who had too big of a mouth for his job and started to tell us we couldn’t sit at this bench for some reason. The reason was probably legit, but the tone and the way the teenager (I assume) behaved towards us was unnecessary and in no way how a waiter should behave. He told us that we were assigned a place and that we should stay seated there. This was not true since no one helped us when we walked in and we assumed to take place wherever we could find a seat. We were not familiar with this place since it was our first time and then to be treated like this felt even more unnecessary especially since I already ordered our food. Were it not for the fact that we already ordered our food that we probably would have left because of this situation. So the 4 stars are NOT for Bonnie & Wild, they can get one star for providing a table, eventually.

Salt and chilli prawns were yummy and the counter lady was flexible with allowing me to switch out the fries for more salad. 👍👍 4/5 stars The steam mussels were somewhat fishy though, not a fan ❌🙅🏻‍♀️ 1/5 stars

A great idea for a communal eating space where all members of the party can choose a different place to eat from. Ate both lunch and dinner here, great pizza and great fried chicken! Great spot for a party, family meal or a date.

Really good dining experience, handy for groups of people that have different tastes, as there is a wide variety of streetfood like stalls in here with plenty of choice. I went with the Sri Lankan, which was really tasty and my partner took some really good fish and chips. Finished off with some pancakes & were stuffed afterwards.

My favourite place to visit when in Edinburgh!! Don’t be put off by the queue at the door- it’ll be worth waiting for. From a quick coffee with friends to evening cocktails for date night this is the place to be. The new cocktail menu for summer 23 offers some real treats.

We ate here at our day of arrival in Edinburgh. We ate the stacked pancakes one with the typical Scottish breakfast on top and one Piri Piri pancake. Both tasted very delicious and we will have another lunch or breakfast here.

Late lunch, short wait before we got our table and 1st impressions were good. Great selection of food and we all chose a different “kitchen” to eat from. I had roast pork from Leith Wok and it was really tasty. Other food was good and I finished with a milkshake from Joelatto. Glad we waited the short while to get in as it’s now our new go-to place for lunch in Edinburgh!