The Dirty Martini - Edinburgh, City of

Went here after working at fringe, took kids and friend out, took forever to get drinks, and even longer for food to be delivered, food was good when arrived but one was Luke warm, husband s steak was meant to be medium but was so rare a good slap would have revived the cow . Our table server was excellent, good manered and apologised if she was missing anything as she was new, went to bar to pay Bill and a little blond in black stood with her back to customers chatting up her male co worker, stood more than 5 minutes before he finally decided to serve me, do not think we will be back in a hurry.

Sunday afternoon we looked in to the ground floor entrance bar, it was quiet. We Walked in unnoticed picked a table, that was marked reserved so moved on to another table and sat down. This table was covered with newspapers glasses wine bucket and various other debris including liquid rolling around it. We browsed the drinks menu while observing the two men behind the bar chatting, drinking (probably water) and really enjoying each other’s company. They did not however pay any attention to the job they were being paid to do so after about 15 minutes we decided they did not want our business and we upped and left. This supposedly trendy bar is just a shadow of its former self. There seems to be no one directing the operation and we will not be back. Very sad.

At £49.95 per person for Christmas night at Dirty Martini Live we all expected much more. Portion sizes need to be addressed everyone was still hungry and nobody really what you would call big eaters. The soup was lovely but rest of the meal wasn't up to much. The turkey even though wasn't much of it was either over cooked some burnt black. Very disapointed and would not go back.

Better for an end of the night vibe as it really is a deafening experience. Service was pretty good, even though they were rammed and offers decent value for money on an expensive street.

Good service but music too loud. Cocktails great but had none of the whisky they had listed on the menu.