Hotel bars and restaurants can sometimes be a hard product to successfully appeal to the local market, make them too tied into the overall hotel experience and people feel put off visiting. With the multimillion pound renovation of the G&V Hotel in 2016, the hotel’s bar (Epicurean) and restaurant (Cucina) have been transformed into a local Food and Drink experience that should absolutely be on your list of places to visit in Edinburgh!
At TLE we like to keep our finger on Edinburgh?s culinary pulse so we checked out the bar and restaurant to see for ourself what has been happening both on the menu and on the plates at this super cool destination.
Background & Concept
Cucina
Cucina is modern Italian dining through and through – from the staff, the head chef, the menu, the full dining experience is a true taste of contemporary Italian culture. Forget  a trattoria style restaurant with terracotta artex, the space has a clean-cut contemporary look which is alive with colour thanks to Scottish designers Timorous Beasties (we have had our eye on their work for many years). Printed wallpaper in a dramatic pattern, dynamic art and strong colours have been ingeniously employed with wave-shaped art pieces offering an interesting contrast.  The imposing pillars are wrapped in colour to become an art piece, as well as being a cleverly functional way to break up the restaurant.  Bright red and turquoise table surfaces, squishy cushions with colourful floral a...