The Bothy - Edinburgh

During our stay, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that the restaurant offers several vegan options, including a few gluten-free vegan choices. The superfood salad was delicious, and the vegan burger was also quite good! The staff were friendly and accommodating, which added to our positive experience.

The menu is good, but some vegan dishes were unavailable. This is an update from my previous review on July 15, 2023.

I ordered the vegan burger, but it was quite basic—just some vegan cheese, tomato, lettuce, and onion. It came with skinny fries on the side. I don’t think it was worth the £14 price tag. We chose this place because it was the closest vegan option to Murrayfield, but I probably won’t return. On a positive note, the venue and staff were friendly.

We had vegan ‘fish’ and chips, soup and edamame hummus, and a vegan breakfast and were really impressed with all of them. We felt like a lot of thought had gone in to making them as good as the non-vegan options and they had a lot of flavour.

We had the vegan fish and chip supper (banana blossom) as part of room service (staying at the hotel) which was tasty and filling and the service was good. They said they had vegan hot chocolate but then said they had ran out. We had breakfast included in our stay. There was very little to have at the buffet (just toast and jam, and they provided us with vegan butter when requested). A vegan option of the veggie breakfast was listed but it turned out to be just a vegetarian breakfast with items missing. It was very underwhelming, luke warm and wouldn’t be something I’d be willing to pay for if it hadn’t been included. The staff also didn’t seem knowledgeable about veganism and couldn’t tell us what was in the vegan breakfast when ordering.