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Edinbane Lodge

Edinbane Lodge

Edinbane Lodge Old DunveganHighland IV51 9PW, Portree, United Kingdom

Beer • Wine • Seafood • British


"Restaurant Only: We didn 't stay at the lodge. #TLDR: The best dining experience I 've had anywhere. A week later, my wife and I are still talking about it. We even ate at a AA 3 Rosette restaurant with a similar tasting menu the following evening. Everything they prepared for us was excellent, but none of it as good as what we had at Edinbane Lodge. That 's all I 'll say about the other place. I just want to emphasize how perfectly presented everything we had from them was. Edinbane 's menu told a single story. Everything we ate that night was obtained locally; most within just a few miles and some from the grounds of the lodge. The food was simple in that none of the offerings contained more than a handful of ingredients, but those ingredients were used to perfection. Our menu had 2 mains: Monkfish and Lamb. 1) A well prepared piece of lamb is delicious. This was incredible. Served 2 ways one was a shoulder in a pastry basket (please forgive me, I am not a gourmet). The flavor from that was explosive. It is the only way I can describe it. Imagine food fireworks going off in your mouth and you 're getting close. 2) Monkfish is a mild, whitefish. One bite told me I was eating the best monkfish I would ever have. I couldn 't help but imagine the chef obsessing over every piece individually. I don 't know for sure that 's what was happening, but I don 't know how else you make everything this perfect. I could write pages about our experience, but no one would want to read that much that hadn 't already been. One last example of simple made perfection: Celery sorbet. You read that right. It wasn 't a bad autocorrect. Words won 't do it justice. Imaging what those 2 words put together would taste like would at best be a disappointment. It was bright and clean. It was wonderful and was presented with their interpretation of cheese and crackers. This is such an inadequate reduction of what was sitting on that plate that I expect the authorities to show up at my door as soon as I hit post. If you have any opportunity to visit this place before their wait list extends into the next decade, you owe it to yourself to go. It is not cheap, but it is underpriced for what you get. We will go back any time we 're able. Thank you! Food drinks: My review was solely about the food. I 'm sure the lodge is very nice."