The 12 best fine-dining restaurants in Edinburgh, six Michelin-starred and six Michelin-listed, with exact tasting-menu prices, current star status checked today, and one honest catch at each.
Edinburgh has six Michelin-starred restaurants right now: Restaurant Martin Wishart, The Kitchin, Lyla, Heron, Condita, and Timberyard. Below them sits a second tier just as worth booking: six more rooms the Guide lists without a star, or that never chased one, running tasting menus every bit as serious. This is my rundown of all twelve, with the exact tasting-menu price where one's published, current star status checked today, and an honest note on the ones that get misrepresented online, starting with Number One at The Balmoral, which lost its star back in 2022 and still turns up on lists that don't seem to know it.
Four of these twelve, Martin Wishart, The Kitchin, Heron and Dùthchas, sit within about ten minutes' walk of each other on the Leith waterfront, reason enough to build a whole evening (or a full day out, see things to do in Edinburgh for the rest of it) around the neighbourhood rather than just one restaurant. If tonight isn't a tasting-menu occasion, my broader guide to the best restaurants in Edinburgh covers more ground and more price points; this one sticks strictly to the fine-dining tier.
Restaurant Martin Wishart on The Shore has held its Michelin star since 2001, and it was Edinburgh's very first. The room is precise French technique built on Scottish produce, one chef working for every two guests at the table, and the tasting menu runs £155 including VAT, with wine pairings at £100 or £175 for the top-tier list.
It's the most formal of the six starred rooms here, more suit than smart-casual, and it isn't cheap even by this list's standards. Go for an anniversary or a proper occasion rather than a casual Tuesday, and book well ahead: this is Leith's original destination table, and it still fills.
Edinburgh's original Michelin star, held continuously since 2001. Book well ahead and dress smart.
The Kitchin on Commercial Quay earned its star within six months of opening in 2006 and has kept it every year since, on the promise of nature-to-plate cooking that leans hard on Scottish seafood and game. The set lunch is the way in at £69 (Tuesday to Saturday); dinner runs closer to £130 a la carte or £165 for the Surprise Tasting Menu, prices reported in recent reviews rather than pulled straight from the restaurant's own current menu page, so confirm when you book.
The building itself, a converted whisky bond on the waterfront, is part of the draw, floor-to-ceiling windows over the harbour. If you only do one Leith tasting menu on this list, this or Martin Wishart is the sensible pair to choose between; The Kitchin is the slightly livelier room of the two.
Its star came within six months of opening in 2006 and hasn't left since. The set lunch is the value way in.
Lyla is the newest star on this list, awarded in February 2025 to chef Stuart Ralston's seafood-led ten-course menu, served Wednesday to Saturday from 6:30pm in a converted Georgian townhouse overlooking Calton Hill. Dinner is £185 a head for the full ten courses and takes about three and a half hours; a shorter lunch runs £79 for five courses or £105 for seven, Friday and Saturday, and Sunday from May.
From mid-February 2026 the building also gains four bedrooms, absorbing part of the old 21212 hotel next door, which has now closed. It's a genuine event of a meal rather than a quick dinner, worth clearing the evening for; if £185 and three and a half hours feels like too much, the lunch tasting is the more forgiving way in.
The newest star on this list, awarded February 2025. Dinner runs about three and a half hours.
Chef Sam Yorke won Heron's Michelin star in 2023 at 25, reportedly making him the youngest chef in Scottish history to do so, and it's held since in the current 2026 Guide. The room on Henderson Street is small and unfussy, open Wednesday to Friday evenings and for both lunch and dinner at weekends.
One honest gap: the tasting-menu price isn't published as text anywhere on the restaurant's own site, the menus are image files rather than a web page, so I can't give you the exact figure here the way I can for most of the others on this list. Email ahead for a current price and to book; it's small enough that you'll want to reserve well before you land in the city.
Chef Sam Yorke won this star in 2023 at 25. Menu prices aren't published online; email ahead.
Condita, tucked into a Newington side street south of the Meadows, holds its Michelin star in the current 2026 Guide and builds its surprise tasting menu almost entirely from wild and organic Scottish fish, shellfish, game, and foraged or home-grown produce. It's open Tuesday to Saturday evenings, reservation only, and the tasting menu is £170 a head, up from £160 when the price rose on 1 April 2026.
It's the one star on this list I couldn't confidently attribute to a named head chef from what I could verify online, so I've left that out rather than guess. It's less central than the Leith cluster, which keeps it a little calmer to book, and the produce-first menu makes it the pick here if you want your tasting menu to read like a walk along the Scottish coast.
A produce-first tasting menu built on wild Scottish fish, game and foraged ingredients.
Timberyard, run by the Radford family in a converted warehouse near the Grassmarket, is the only restaurant on this list with a Michelin Green Star alongside its regular star (awarded 2023), recognition for sustainable sourcing, wild game, foraged ingredients, and a natural wine list. There's no a la carte and no children's menu: it's tasting menu only, weekly-changing, six courses at dinner.
Because the menu changes every week, there's no fixed price to quote with real confidence; a recent review put a dinner tasting menu around £120, but check the current figure when you book rather than trust that number blindly. Open Wednesday evening and Thursday to Sunday for both lunch and dinner; it closes Monday and Tuesday, so don't expect a quiet midweek table on those two days.
The only Green Star on this list, alongside its regular star. No a la carte, tasting menu only.
Here's where the list changes gear: Dùthchas hasn't been awarded a Michelin star, but it is Michelin Guide-selected, and at six tables in a converted Leith shop-front it runs a genuinely serious tasting menu from chef Paul Gunning, formerly of Purslane. It's £95 for six courses, £65 for a shorter three-course Wee Taster, or £29.95 for a set lunch, the best value on this entire list by some distance.
The catch, and it's a real one: the venue itself flags that it can't fully accommodate wheelchair users, so check directly before booking if that matters to you. It also asks for 48 hours' cancellation notice. Otherwise this is my pick of the guide-listed tier: the same seriousness of cooking as the starred six, at roughly half the price.
Michelin Guide-selected, not (yet) starred. The best value on this entire list.
eòrna is the smallest room on this list: a twelve-seat counter in Stockbridge where chef Brian Grigor, previously at the two-Michelin-star Andrew Fairlie and four years at Number One, cooks the entire tasting menu himself with no other kitchen staff, and no separate front-of-house beyond sommelier Glen Montgomery. The Michelin Guide's own listing describes it as a plush, smart counter restaurant, selected but not (yet) starred.
There's no published price online, which given the pedigree here is the one thing I'd want fixed before booking; email or call ahead. Seatings run Tuesday to Saturday from around 7pm with a maximum of twelve covers a night, so this books out weeks ahead. If you only try one insider pick from this list, make it this one.
A twelve-seat counter, one chef, no published price online. Email ahead and book weeks out.
Chef-owner Roberta Hall-McCarron's The Little Chartroom is Michelin Guide-selected, without a star or a Bib Gourmand badge on the Guide's own current page, whatever some older listicles still say. One correction worth flagging: it moved from 30 Albert Place to 14 Bonnington Road in 2022, and the restaurant's own website still shows the old address, so use Bonnington Road if you're heading there. A three-course dinner is £73, a five-course tasting menu £95.
It's closed Monday and Tuesday, open for lunch and dinner Wednesday to Sunday. The room is relaxed rather than formal for the price point, which is both the drawback and the appeal depending on what you want: a genuinely excellent kitchen without the white-tablecloth theatre of the starred rooms above.
Moved to Bonnington Road in 2022; the restaurant's own website still lists the old address.
Number One, The Balmoral's grand dining room at the east end of Princes Street, held a Michelin star from 2003 to 2022 and lost it; the hotel's own site now describes it only as Michelin Guide-recommended, with no star claimed. It still turns up mislabelled as currently starred on some general best-of lists, so treat any source, including older versions of this kind of article, with caution on that specific point.
It's dinner only, Thursday to Monday from 6pm, no strict dress code though sportswear and shorts are discouraged. An older review puts a seven-course tasting menu at £115, but there's no current published menu to check it against, so confirm the figure when you book. The room itself, deep-red lacquer and white linen, is still one of the grandest in the city; go for the setting and the service as much as for a star that's no longer there.
Held a Michelin star 2003-2022 and lost it. Still mislabelled as starred on some lists; it isn't.
This one has a naming problem worth flagging: chef Mark Greenaway's evening tasting menu at the Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh (The Caledonian) is currently branded The Court x Mark Greenaway on his own official site, in the same room, The Court, that runs the hotel's afternoon tea by day. Some directories still list it under an older name, Grazing by Mark Greenaway. No Michelin recognition, current or historical, turned up in anything I checked.
The format is a six-course Progression Tasting Menu with an optional wine pairing, plus an a la carte version and a Sunday lunch. I couldn't find a published price in text, so budget for a proper hotel-fine-dining tab and confirm the figure when you book. Worth it for the room and the west-end hotel setting as much as for the food.
Currently branded The Court x Mark Greenaway; some directories still call it Grazing by Mark Greenaway.
Wedgwood The Restaurant, on the Canongate stretch of the Royal Mile, has been doing chef Paul Wedgwood's version of fine dining, by his own description without the pretentiousness, for years without ever chasing or claiming a Michelin star. The evening tasting menu runs to eight courses, with a shorter five-course Wee Tour of Scotland also on offer, plus a full a la carte and a daily lunch menu.
As with a couple of others in this second tier, I couldn't pin an exact tasting-menu price from what's published online, so ask when you book. It's open longer hours than most of this list, lunch daily and dinner every night of the week, which makes it the easiest of the twelve to actually get a table at without weeks of planning; a fair last stop if the smaller rooms above are booked out.
No Michelin star, but open longer hours than anything else on this list, easiest table to actually get.
Prices split cleanly by tier. The six Michelin-starred kitchens run from £155 (Martin Wishart) to £185 (Lyla) for a full evening tasting menu where a fixed price is published; Heron and Timberyard don't publish one online. The Michelin-listed, unstarred tier is far gentler: £65-£95 at Dùthchas and £73-£95 at The Little Chartroom, with eòrna, Number One, The Court x Mark Greenaway and Wedgwood all priced on booking rather than online. Where I couldn't find an exact current figure in text, I've said so rather than guessed.
Booking: the smallest rooms, eòrna at twelve covers and Dùthchas at six tables, go weeks ahead and should be your first calls if a date matters. The starred six generally need at least a few days' notice, more at weekends and through the Edinburgh Fringe in August and over Christmas and New Year. Number One and The Court x Mark Greenaway, as hotel dining rooms, tend to have a bit more flexibility.
For more of the city's food scene beyond this tasting-menu tier, see the best restaurants in Edinburgh or, for produce-driven Scottish cooking specifically, best Scottish restaurants. Building a special night around it, see date night in Edinburgh; if Leith is your focus, the Leith guide covers four of the twelve rooms above within a short walk of each other. And if a splashy afternoon rather than dinner is more your speed, best afternoon tea is the gentler, cheaper version of the same idea.
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