5 Meze Plater
A delicious platter featuring five distinct, flavorful Mediterranean appetizers.
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A small house on the Royal Mile with a long memory of the Bosphorus.
Just steps from Edinburgh's Royal Mile, we cook the way our grandmothers did — with patience, with butter, beneath the same blue-and-burgundy tiles that watched empires come and go. Twenty seats. One open kitchen. Every plate, an heirloom.
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