Trip to Edinburgh

[Pat A]

I'm hoping those of you who are natives of North of the border can help me here!

I am going to Edinburgh for a few days at the beginning of October - main purpose is for work, but am going to extend my trip so that I can see something of this lovely city, and hubby is joining me.

I have heard that there is a very famous fish restaurant, possibly in Leith rather than Edinburgh itself, but I don't know what it is called! I tried "google" and found that there are several in Leith all claiming to be the best! So I have some questions....
**Is there "one" restaurant which is "the" famous one - if so what is it called?
**Can anyone recommend any other particularly good restaurants - fish or otherwise (not Indian please) in the city or elsewhere close by?
**If you had just one day, and two evenings free in Edinburgh - what would you go and see?

We are staying in the City centre and won't have a car with us.

Thanks in advance!

[Andrew MacLean]

Leith has many extremely good restaurants, but if it is seafood you want then, in my opinion THE restaurant is Loch Fyne Oysters

http://www.lochfyne.com/pages/content.a ... &RestID=97

Enjoy your visit to Scotland's Capital. It is a pity you are not coming to the real cultural and commercial heart of Scotland (Glasgow )

Andrew

[Pat A]

Many thanks Andrew.
You'll be pleased to note no doubt that I have been to Glasgow several times - and I agree, a great city it is too! As is Aberdeen (in case we have any Aberdonians about to shout!) - met some fantastic guys there once, just off the oil rigs - we had an absolutely hilarious evening with them as they made up lost time from their enforced "dry " period! But boy did they have some stories to tell!

[Andrew MacLean]

I used to work in Aberdeen and I remember the tales that were told by men just off the rigs. Well, I remember the ones they told to the Minister

Enjoy your visit to Edinburgh. My wife's sisters and their families all live in the windy city (not Chicago: the Scottish one).

I am pretty sure that if anyone told you about THE seafood restaurant in Leith they must have meant Loch Fyne Oysters. Either that or they were mistaken!

Andrew

[Sarah M]

Pat, you could do one of the open top bus tours on your free day, or do a walking tour of the Vaults or a Ghost Walk, or go to the castle or the zoo or forget all that and go shopping!

[Andrew MacLean]

There are some wonderful galleries and museums in Edinburgh, including the Scottish National Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Andrew