After thirteen years at the helm of Harvey Nichols’ Forth Floor restaurant, bar and brasserie in Edinburgh, Stuart Muir is to launch an eponymous restaurant with his business partner Paul Brennan.
Dine with Stuart Muir is scheduled to open in November in Saltire Court on Edinburgh’s Cambridge Street. Set in the heart of Edinburgh’s financial district and next to the Traverse Theatre and Usher Hall, the new restaurant will use the space vacated by Andrew Radford’s blu restaurant almost five years ago.
Laid-back luxury
The 100 cover brasserie, Champagne and cocktail lounge will be open for morning business meetings, weekend brunches and leisurely lunches to convivial dinners and late night cocktails. With over 60 years’ experience in the hospitality business between them, the duo aim to provide ‘a destination venue’ that offers the ‘very best levels of food, drinks and service in a laid-back luxury setting’.
Commenting on the new venue, Stuart Muir said, ‘It’s been quite a change to swap my chef’s whites for a hard hat and overalls, but Paul and I are committed to revealing a truly fresh and exciting venue in the city next month. We are working hard on menus that set a new benchmark in the city for relaxed brasserie style dining, and we’re looking for the very best people in the business to join our team. We want to bring the fun back to food and I’m confident that we will have the right people in place to do so.’
Watch this space.
New Turkish
While on the subject of new restaurants, Ada is a Turkish place on Edinburgh’s Antigua Street which opened at the weekend.
For reasons which are not hard to guess, Edinburgh has seen a mini-boom in new restaurants from that part of the world and, in the admittedly limited, experience of this 5pm Dining scribbler, they have all been pretty good.
Well cooked char grilled meats; varied mezze, keen pricing and, more often than not, a BYOB policy. What’s not to like?