Mussel Inn - Edinburgh
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Mussel Inn - Edinburgh Summary
- Address: 61-65 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2HN (Map)
- Tel: +44 (0)844 567 2458
- E-mail: Click here to contact
- Website: Go to the Mussel Inn - Edinburgh website
- Cuisine(s): Seafood
- Opening Times: Mon - Thurs: 12:00 - 15:00 18:00 - 22:00
Fri - Sat: 12:00 - 22:00
Sun: 12:30 - 22:00 - Avg Price: £29.00
- Party Planner: Group bookings & Party planner
(Avg Price is the average cost per person for two courses, coffee, half a bottle of house wine and tip/service)
Mussel Inn - Edinburgh Description
If there's one thing you can get the British hooked on, it's seafood, pun predictable. So up in Scotland, which can usually be relied upon to show us the way in quite a lot of things, they are surprisingly a bit behind the times on the fishy thing, which is extraordinary when you think they have so much of the stuff around them. Not only lots of it, but real quality as well.
But both the Edinburgh and Glasgow Mussel Inns are doing their best to make sure that Scotland catches up and tells the world that Scottish seafood is streets ahead of the rest.
In Rose Street to be precise, that well-loved Edinburgh thoroughfare that offers a parallel pedestrian alternative to much of Princes Street, is friendly and well-used, and has rather sadly tended to shake off its formerly slightly louche flavour. Unlike its sibling in Glasgow the Rose Street Mussel Inn has not won any awards, but the food is every bit as good.
Creamy seafood chowder and the soup of the day both come with fresh crusty bread, or there's crab, which comes with lemon and cherry tomato mayonnaise. The grilled platters give an option between starters or light meals, and oysters are either chilled natural, or grilled with a choice of cheese and bacon, or garlic butter. In my experience goat's cheese makes an excellent foil for seafood flavours, none more so than when wrapped in a pastry case and served with spiced onion marmalade, as here.
Plump, juicy King scallops are a weakness for many, and at Mussel you can have them char grilled, on a skewer, pan fried, or seared. Their small cousins, mussels, come in kilo pots, again with choices, this time natural, shallot, roasted pepper, leek, Moroccan or blue cheese, of which the Moroccan, with chillies garlic, ginger, coriander and cumin sounds highly toothsome. But I think I would have been diverted well before then by thoughts of the hot seafood platter with its mix of fish and assorted shellfish poached in garlic, shallot, and white wine and cream sauce.
Round off with a chocolate and almond torte with chocolate sauce, and then shuffle off into a dark corner to rest until it's time to come back. The wine list is predictably mostly white, though with some concession to heathens who occasionally like to have some wiry red with their shellfish. Their Locret Lachaud Brut, from the same province as Dom Perignon lives up to its claim of being excellent taste and value.
The Scottish passion for deep-fried Mars Bars is well catalogued, but not available at the Mussels, where sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce and ice cream may challenge the odds just as much, but do it with more grace.
Both Mussels are doing a first class job for their public and the cause of seafood in general. Any differences or preferences are purely personal and slight and do not affect the excellence of either.
For far more information - including their full menu - try a visit to their fun-packed Website, from which I was delighted to have authoritative evidence for what my instincts have been telling me ever since my first mussel, that seafood is seriously good for you.
Your Reviews of Mussel Inn - Edinburgh
Dave & Claire (29 May 2008)
The mussel starters in tomato sauce were tender and delicious, and the local Scottish Ad beer provided to be the perfect compliment. We had the sea bass and Mussel Inn's version of fish and chips. Both were fresh, prepared and presented well - excellent in flavour and with generous side accompaniments. The service was attentive but not overly so. We definitely plan to return.
A Gray (9 March 2008)
We enjoyed a lovely meal here on Valentine’s Day. The pot of mussels with shallot and wine sauce was delicious, and enough to satisfy. My partner enjoyed an oriental style crab starter - which was nice, but I wasn't sure if the oriental flavours complemented the crab that well. He enjoyed a pot of mussels with blue cheese and bacon, which he really enjoyed, and we had two nice desserts as well. Service was efficient and friendly, and although the tables are very close together, it has a nice atmosphere - more bistro style than restaurant, but a lovely menu at fair prices. We will definitely go again.
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Additional Info for Mussel Inn - Edinburgh
Children welcome
Groups allowed
Air conditioning
Outside seating
Reservations
Cover Charge
- House red: £12.25
- House white: £12.25
- Service charge: Not included
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