Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Haddington
Hardens guides have spent 34 years compiling reviews of the best Haddington restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 5 restaurants in Haddington and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Haddington restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Rhubarb, Prestonfield Hotel
Scottish restaurant in Edinburgh
Priestfield Rd - EH16
The “extravagant surroundings” of a lavishly decorated country house in 20 acres near Arthur’s Seat help set a spectacular scene at James Thomson’s luxury hotel (he also owns the famous Witchery). Fans say it’s “possibly the nicest upmarket place for dinner in Edinburgh – in particular for special occasions”. The cooking – from a wide range of menus including à la carte – is affordably priced given all the grandeur, and there’s an “exceptional wine list to go with it”.
2. The Bonnie Badger
Scottish restaurant in Gullane
Main Street - EH31
An ivy-clad outpost in golfing country from Edinburgh-based Tom & Michaela Kitchin offers “excellent food and rooms – and a great breakfast”. It’s quality bistro fare, but despite its heritage not super-fancy: eg. French Onion soup, Haggis, neeps & tatties, Lemon mousse.
3. The Creel
Scottish restaurant in Dunbar
25 Lamer Street - EH42
This old fisherman‘s inn on the historic harbourside was taken over by Jack Findlay (from Logan Thorburn, who ran it for 16 years) at the end of 2022, but it remains a cosy and traditional panelled space. Feedback in our annual diners’ poll on its traditional Franco-Scottish restaurant fare is very upbeat all-round, and in her May 2024 review The Times’s Chitra Ramaswamy acclaimed “a rare and perfect combination of warmth and formality… and the food is wonderful”.
4. Fishers Leith
Fish & seafood restaurant in Edinburgh
1 The Shore - EH6
This “absolute stalwart”, in a 17th-century watchtower by the Water of Leith, delivers “great fresh fish, beautifully cooked in a kitchen the size of a 50p piece” – “lovely staff, all very hectic, but it just works”. The flagship of a small group established more than 20 years ago, some reporters find it “slightly more relaxed than the city branch”. Top Menu Tip – “the prawn cocktail is to die for”.
5. Osteria
Italian restaurant in North Berwick
71 High Street - EH39
The food is still of a high standard – “Italian dishes but far removed from the usual Italian restaurant fare” at this local fixture. Run by chef Daniele di Marco, wife Daniela, father Angelo and brother Stefano, service is “always efficient and friendly” and it won a number of very approving reports this year (perhaps helped by a boost from The Times’s Chitra Ramaswamy in March 2024 who “love[d] Osteria‘s resolute conventionality. It‘s been too long since I‘ve encountered butter curls in a restaurant. How retro, and delightful”).
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