The Tigerlily Restaurant in Edinburgh is just outside the main city, inside the Tigerliliy hotel. It’s a modern, chic place to eat with a nice atmosphere, nice surroundings and a great menu.
The décor is modern with subdued lighting, little booths and a shimmering curtain around the walls. It’s an intimate atmosphere that sets the scene for a nice dinner with friends, or for two.
We started with spicy sweet potato with teriyaki sauce with sesame salad and tomato and rosemary risotto with grilled Ragstone goats cheese. The spicy sweet potato, teriyaki sauce and sesame salad was much lighter than the name suggests. The sweet potato was fresh, fluffy and didn’t soak up the teriyaki sauce as we had originally feared. The salad the ideal complement, being light, subtly flavoured and very fresh.
“The Tigerlily Restaurant in Edinburgh is just outside the main thoroughfares of the city, but well worth the short walk to find it.”
The rosemary risotto with goats cheese was much more fragrant. A much richer dish, it was perfectly cooked, with just the right amount of rosemary, to perfume but not overpower the dish. The goats cheese was fresh, tasty and worked perfectly to balance the dish.
Main course was a pair of 28-day aged fillet steaks with wilted spinach and rosti. We had one with Madeira sauce and seared fois gras and one just with garlic butter. To that, we added sides of roasted root vegetables, creamed garlic spinach and mash.
The steaks were superb. They were rich, juicy and cooked exactly how we wanted them. The Madeira sauce was rich, decadent and had a real flavour of the peppercorns. It was well balanced and delicious. The garlic butter was also balanced, with enough garlic to satisfy, but not make you unsociable.
The sides were also nice, with the exception of the mash, which was a little bland. The only other minor critique we would offer would be that the steak was placed on top of the wilted spinach, meaning rather than tasting of spinach, the leaf tasted of steak juice. A small but important point.
The Tigerlily Restaurant in Edinburgh is just outside the main thoroughfares of the city, but well worth the short walk to find it. The food is great, the ingredients fresh and we would return in a heartbeat.
The Bill: £45 per head
