For regular supper
Book downstairs, order plainly, stay for pudding if the ginger one is on.
Canongate restaurant and whisky rooms
Scottish food without the theme-park treatment.
A warm dining room, an edited whisky shelf, seasonal Scottish plates and upstairs rooms for dinners that need a door.
Book a table Read the menuBurns week opens in September. The late sitting is usually the loud one.
LunchSoup, pies, smoked fish, proper puddings.
SupperHaggis, lamb, haddock, barley, gravy.
UpstairsPrivate dinners, tastings, wakes, small weddings.
For whisky people
Flights are chosen by feel rather than by showing off the rarest bottle.
For groups
Upstairs rooms seat 16 and 36. They are private, not hotel-stiff.