Three Birds
| 3-5 Viewforth, Edinburgh |
5 tassi
10.00/10.00 |
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+44 131 229 3252 |
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Valutazione
Julia Harrison (28.10.2017 09:40)
What a gorgeous find! Excellent service and delicious food. The vegetarian/vegan options were really impressive. Would highly recommend.
What a gorgeous find! Excellent service and delicious food. The vegetarian/vegan options were really impressive. Would highly recommend.
Jose Antonio Ballesteros Figueroa (16.10.2017 16:30)
Delicious food, super nice atmosphere and excellent service.
There’s a wide variety of food going from easygoing good to nice main dishes.
Delicious food, super nice atmosphere and excellent service.
There’s a wide variety of food going from easygoing good to nice main dishes.
Michael Retout (11.10.2017 11:49)
A great welcome on arrival. Had three excellent courses here accompanied by very attentive and friendly service. I'd recommend the ice cream slider dessert.
A great welcome on arrival. Had three excellent courses here accompanied by very attentive and friendly service. I'd recommend the ice cream slider dessert.
Rupert Wolfe Murray (03.10.2017 11:43)
An exceptional restaurant with unusual staff and great food. The lighting is superb and may be the secret of why this place is so good. The decor is great too and there are lots of interesting things on the wall (see my photos).
The food must be the main reason for the success of this restaurant, and its little chain of similar establishments around the city. I only had one dish -- the fish of the day (sea bass) -- and it was really superb. Light, aromatic, subtle and delicous.
The waitresses chatted to us like we were old friends and this is unusual. Why don't more places do this? In most restaurants I feel they don't want to talk to me or, even worse, they put on a show of friendliness that is fake. Often I get the feeling they don't want to be there, they are above this sort of thing and they also don't want to be wasting their time talking to me.
I think one of the reasons for the surly undercurrent I feel in most restaurants is that waiting tables is considered a temporary or lowly job. Presumably they think that serving people is not a noble endeavour. But it is. In other countries the waiting staff take their job seriously, and take pride in serving others, and this comes across.
I've heard that most waiting staff in UK are hired on a temporary basis, paid peanuts and expected to move on soon. At Three Birds I suspect they pay properly and expect their staff to remain.
We were approached by a middle aged lady who is presumably the manager. She was as hardworking as the others but she spoke to us with a confidence that suggersted she had no fears about getting the heave.
We chatted and she told us she'd been there since the restaurant opened. She even came up with the name of the owner's new restaurant, on Broughton Street in Edinburgh, which is called the Educated Flea.
"The name came from a joke," she told us. The third restaurant in their group is called the Apiary.
This was her joke cum poem:
"Birds do it
Bees do it
Even an educated flea can do it"
I can just imagine the laughter this comment must have provoked.
I wonder how many people have had restaurants names after their jokes?
An exceptional restaurant with unusual staff and great food. The lighting is superb and may be the secret of why this place is so good. The decor is great too and there are lots of interesting things on the wall (see my photos).
The food must be the main reason for the success of this restaurant, and its little chain of similar establishments around the city. I only had one dish -- the fish of the day (sea bass) -- and it was really superb. Light, aromatic, subtle and delicous.
The waitresses chatted to us like we were old friends and this is unusual. Why don't more places do this? In most restaurants I feel they don't want to talk to me or, even worse, they put on a show of friendliness that is fake. Often I get the feeling they don't want to be there, they are above this sort of thing and they also don't want to be wasting their time talking to me.
I think one of the reasons for the surly undercurrent I feel in most restaurants is that waiting tables is considered a temporary or lowly job. Presumably they think that serving people is not a noble endeavour. But it is. In other countries the waiting staff take their job seriously, and take pride in serving others, and this comes across.
I've heard that most waiting staff in UK are hired on a temporary basis, paid peanuts and expected to move on soon. At Three Birds I suspect they pay properly and expect their staff to remain.
We were approached by a middle aged lady who is presumably the manager. She was as hardworking as the others but she spoke to us with a confidence that suggersted she had no fears about getting the heave.
We chatted and she told us she'd been there since the restaurant opened. She even came up with the name of the owner's new restaurant, on Broughton Street in Edinburgh, which is called the Educated Flea.
"The name came from a joke," she told us. The third restaurant in their group is called the Apiary.
This was her joke cum poem:
"Birds do it
Bees do it
Even an educated flea can do it"
I can just imagine the laughter this comment must have provoked.
I wonder how many people have had restaurants names after their jokes?
Danielle Marchand (02.10.2017 22:42)
We were staying around the corner from Three Birds and decided to give it a try on our last night in Edinburgh. I'm so glad we did because our meal was top-notch! This is the neighborhood restaurant of my dreams, and if I was lucky enough to live nearby, I would frequent it often. The service was attentive, warm, and friendly. The food was delicious - tasted like a wonderful home-cooked meal with elevated presentation. Everything about Three Birds was wonderful. I'm definitely coming back next time I find myself in Edinburgh.
We were staying around the corner from Three Birds and decided to give it a try on our last night in Edinburgh. I'm so glad we did because our meal was top-notch! This is the neighborhood restaurant of my dreams, and if I was lucky enough to live nearby, I would frequent it often. The service was attentive, warm, and friendly. The food was delicious - tasted like a wonderful home-cooked meal with elevated presentation. Everything about Three Birds was wonderful. I'm definitely coming back next time I find myself in Edinburgh.
