Gluten Free Review of A Room in The Town – Edinburgh
Here’s a quick review of A Room in the Town from the perspective of a gluten free diner!
The menu in A Room in the Town is printed on paper and seems to change on a regular basis. All you need to do is tell the waiter or waitress that you are on a gluten free diet and they will highlight all the items on the menu that you can safely eat.
Every time I have been to A Room in the Town I’ve been able to have a choice of around 5 starters and 6-7 main courses. Sample starters from one of my recent visits included poached sole fillet & prawns with a sour cream tartare, goats cheese, courgette & piquillo pepper terrine, soup of the night or chilled smoked salmon, cream cheese & caper parcel with petit pois puree. These typically range from £4.25-£5.95 per dish in the evening.
For main courses choices included grilled salmon fillet with roast garlic & sunblushed tomato caponata, slow braised ox cheek with shitake mushrooms, sesame seeds & carrot puree, seared monkfish fillet & sauteed leeks with a crayfish scallion & sweetcorn butter or chargrilled lamb rump with sauteed spring cabbage, chestnuts, butternut squash & a Madeira gravy. Yum! The main courses range from £11.95-£18.95 in the evening and include some lovely potatoes and vegetables on the side. On my last visit I had a perfectly cooked monkfish dish, which was delicious, and overall I’ve never been disappointed in the quality of the food.
For dessert there is always a selection of gluten free ice cream and on occassion they do have gluten free cake as well. I had a lovely lemon cake made from polenta on my last visit.
Another bonus to this restaurant is that you can bring your own bottle. They have a corkage charge of £3 for wine or £4 for bubbly or you can choose wine from their own wine list.
Each time I’ve eaten at A Room in the Town I’ve never had any gluten symptoms, so I can only assume that they are careful in the kitchen with cross contamination. I’m pretty sensitive to cross contamination and have very specific symptoms that I get only from eating gluten, so I usually know if there has been an issue with this.
If A Room in The Town isn’t convenient for you, there are a few other restaurants in Edinburgh owned by the same company. There’s A Room in the West End, A Room in Leith and Teuchters Landing. You can find out more on the A Room in… website. I’ve never been to any of these since starting my gluten free diet, but I have heard that they also offer a good selection of gluten free options.
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I have just been to A room in the town and was very disappointed about the service i received from them. I told them numerous times i was Gluten free and they still managed to serve me a glutened starter, had i not doubled checked with the 3rd waitress i would of been very ill.
Hi Sue,
I’m really sorry to hear that
It just shows, how you can have both good and bad experiences at the same restaurants depending on who is serving you!
I’ve always had a good experience at A Room in the Town, but based on your experience it always pays to be cautious. You can never check too many times that your meal is gluten free!
Cheers,
Suzanne