Guilano's Edinburgh August 2006

This can be dealt with quite quickly. Nice friendly Italian staff lead you to bright, clean, well-furnished and good sized restaurant. Menu and wine list look good. Hard to be disparraging in the face of such niceness. I had the Stagioni pizza - Ham, Mushrooms, Artichokes, Calabrese Sausage and Black Olives. If you like safe, rich, Marks & Spencer's cheese tarts (and, apparently the people of Edinburgh do) then this pizza is for you. However, if you were expecting a pizza then you have another think coming. Half bottle of a regional red that was very enjoyable - but would have been even better with Italian food. For dessert I had the Torta Fantastica - layered vanilla toffee ice cream on a crisp chocolate base. My compliments to the head chemist; it must have taken great skill to open the wrapping and put this on the plate then open the jar of fruits of the forest goo and spoon a bit over it.

However, the Cognac was served at perfect temperature (a complete cooincidence I was assured by Maria-Enza, they had no idea what the temperature was) and the espresso was very rich and worth having.

£29. 48. With the tip, that came to .... well, £29.48; I mean to say...
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