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On the armpit of the oldest inn on the Royal Mile, the White Horse Ability & Seafood Bar will serve administration platters of mollusk including lobsters, scallops and crab; monkfish curry; lobster and fries; and accomplished auto sole.
There will additionally be a ambit of oysters, shucked on the bar in appearance of customers, and a bar card absolute baby plates like backtalk chips and sesame tuna. Diners will accept the advantage to accept a lobster from in-restaurant tanks.
The restaurant will be accessible for cafeteria and banquet seven canicule a week, with the bar trading until late.
The bar will action a cocktail menu, accumulation “boutique alcohol and bank ingredients.”
The autogenous of the restaurant will accept a ancestry colourway with architecture appearance including a custom fabricated marble bar-top and the ample bespoke lobster tank. Basement will comprise a dining allowance with added berth basement attractive into the lobster catchbasin and added at the bar.
The restaurant will be a amplitude area “the capacity booty centre stage”, says managing administrator Mark Fraser. The small, bazaar suppliers the restaurant is application accommodate Edinburgh-based Welch Fishmongers, Mara Seaweed and Cornish acceptable fishing specialists Wild Harbour.
“Shellfish is generally advised a affluence ingredient, and seafood restaurants as academic and expensive” says Fraser. “Whilst the focus of White Horse will consistently be on the affection of the capacity we source, we are actual aflame to acquaint a new and airy way to adore seafood in the capital.”
The White Horse Ability & Seafood Bar is endemic by The Compass Group. The Group, launched in 2004, additionally owns the Chop House in Leith, the additional Chop House at Wavery Arches, as able-bodied as Edinburgh restaurant Monteiths, Sygn bar and The WestRoom gastropub.
