Amuse by Kevin Dalgleish

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   Graeme

   Las Vegas

   3 reviews

   5.0

   3 reviews

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Great venue, very welcoming and friendly staff, food was exceptional. Good atmosphere and not too noisy, Kevin Dalgleish came to table towards end of the meal and had a quick chat to ask if everything was ok. Nice to see the chef take time out of a busy kitchen and speak to customers. Would highly recommend this restaurant and we will definitely be back.
   

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   Erin

   Aberdeen

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The food here is up there with some of the best food I have ever eaten, everything we ate was delicious. It is a more pricey restaurant but the quality of the dishes is truly worth the price. The service is also great and the ambience is lovely. Would absolutely recommend Amuse.
   

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   Tammi

   Aberdeen

   1 review

   5.0

   1 review

   Dined 3 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Food and service absolutely outstanding! Tasting menu was good value for money. Paired wines not quite as good value. Overall, would definitely recommend.
   

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   Craig

   Aberdeen

   2 reviews

   5.0

   2 reviews

   Dined 6 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   The perfect Christmas Eve lunch, everything was perfect and delicious. Overall value for money too. Got to be one of the best restaurants in Aberdeen.
   

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   Marian

   Edinburgh

   1 review

   2.0

   1 review

   Dined on December 22, 2024

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 1
   4. Ambience 2

   Food was fantastic; eventually but the service was atrocious. No menus given, long waits for ordered drinks, not offered any more had to ask. I think the waitress had either been out the night before or just didn’t have a clue. Really not what I expected. Don’t think I’d go back.
   

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   Kate

   London

   3 reviews

   4.0

   3 reviews

   Dined on December 22, 2024

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 3

   The food was very nice. Service was too fast. We were in and out in less than an hour. The whole experience was perfectly adequate. Nothing not to like, but nothing exceptional.
   

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   John

   Aberdeen

   1 review

   2.0

   1 review

   Dined on December 21, 2024

   1. Overall 2
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 2
   4. Ambience 3

   I had great expectations for Amuse but they weren’t quite met. Admittedly our table was just before Christmas but the service was slow to begin with, especially for pre dinner drinks ~ 20 mins. It took around 15 minutes to be given menus which we needed to ask for. The servers were helpful but clearly overstretched. The first course of ravioli (lobster and a mouse) was overcooked and bland. The accompanying bisque split opinions (£18). The main (2 pieces of roe deer fillet one slice of carrot and some spinach at £39) was well cooked and tender but poor value. Desserts - treacle tart/lime ice cream and warm chocolate mousse were nice. Overall at £100 per person I didn’t feel it was good value for money. Even a few more vegetables would have helped. I don’t think we will be back.
   

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   Michael

   Derbyshire

   2 reviews

   3.0

   2 reviews

   Dined on December 21, 2024

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 3

   To start the signature cocktail "Ginger" was lovely, but let's be honest, not worth the cost of 1/3 a bottle whiskey. I am reliably informed that the mocktails were very good. We had the pigeon risotto as our starter which was good, the sauce was beautiful and the risotto well made but the pigeon could have been left to rest longer and was a bit tough; the butter knifes we were given struggled to cut the meat. The lobster was our fish course and by far the most disappointing. I can only describe the meal as "biege" on every level. Underseasoned and underwhelming. Honestly, it made us slightly queasy later in the evening. A sort of nice bisque was met with a bland pasta shell, flavourless spinach and a lobster mouse was the flavour equivilent of white noise. The longistine was a tiny drop of pleasantness in the dish but when I say tiny, I meam 20p sized. I would not have expected quality like this from a box standard high street restaurant let alone one that is trying to be the premier east coast restaurant. We had the roe for our main which was well cooked, packed with flavour and well presented. Likely the best dish of the night, but I would say that even for a restaurant of this apparent level the portion was the right size for the tasting menu, not an actual main. The ambiance was somewhat ruined about twenty minutes in when the restaurant began to fill up and the tight packed tables meant I had to nearly shout for my wife to hear me across our own. Before that point it was lovely. Service was good from the manager but the wait staff need a bit of refinement. They tried to take unfinished drinks from the table, left finished meals in front of us for ages and had to be reminded to bring us our coats before we left. I can see what Amuse is getting at, and it has the potential to get there but for fine dining in Scotland, it has not hit the mark just yet.
   

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   Grant

   London

   8 reviews

   5.0

   8 reviews

   Dined on December 21, 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Food was excellent - as usual. Roe dee especially good.
   

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    Alison

    London

    3 reviews

    5.0

    3 reviews

    Dined on December 20, 2024

    1. Overall 5
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 5
    4. Ambience 5

    Always perfect in every way, didn’t disappoint! The best dining experience in Aberdeen
    

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