Keeping it Klassy in Edinburgh
My klassiness knows no bounds, it’s true. We have been spending some time in and out of some of Edinburgh’s finest establishments. On Sunday night we dined at The Witchery. Let me break it down for you: it’s a fancy ass restaurant that has been featured several times as one of the favorite picks by Wine Spectator, and Elton John says it’s one of the most beautiful restaurants that he’s ever seen.
Let’s talk about the wine menu first: they have over 900 bottles of wine. 900 freaking bottles! And how the hell does someone pick from 900 bottles of wine? By price tag, that’s how. We ended up having a 1/2 a bottle of wine that cost $70 - and it was delicious! Thanks, mum for paying.
Sadly, there were no celebrity sightings. Apparently, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Pierce Brosnan, Tim Rice, and Jack Nicholson were getting room service that night. Who knows. It’s just as well because I was not dressed for the place. I typically don’t care what I’m wearing, but when you saunter into a place like this with jeans and sneakers, you sit in your seat and you pray to God that no one has noticed what you’re wearing. Usually not a problem, but I had to pee from the second we walked into the restaurant and sitting down for 2 hours was painful. But I REFUSED to get up out of my seat to let others judge me. After all, it would be wrong to judge the judge, right?
The bill that night was about $200 per person. Again, thanks mom!
Then tonight we went a totally different route: we ended up at a place called The Amber Rose. I’ll put it to you this way: it’s like the Applebee’s of Edinburgh. Not so hot. Our meal cost about $5 each. And it tasted like it too…Blech.
Take me back to The Witchery any night of the week…
