Waterside Restaurant, Pub & Bistro, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
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The Waterside Restaurant & Bistro
1-5 Waterside (adj. Nungate Bridge), Haddington
+44 (0)1620 825674 fax +44 (0)1620 825607 no e-mail no website
Waterside Bistro Haddington: photo by Adrian Welch
Well-known bar and restaurant on banks of the Tyne, very popular on summer weekends.
Four recent visits to the fine dining Waterside Restaurant (upstairs) prompted me to put an entry back on for this establishment, removed following separate visits to the Bar and most unrewardingly, the downstairs Waterside Bistro. Recent visits to the Waterside Bar suggest this is well worth a visit.
Service upstairs in the restaurant is friendly, and professional. The Waterside menu is old-fashioned I feel and full of classics often missing from 'trendier' restaurants, such as roast duck and pheasant, served with plentiful helpings of vegetables. The nearest competitor to the Waterside Bistro Haddington in terms of dining is the Drovers in East Linton (or possible the Goblin Ha' in Gifford, both East Lothian) but the Waterside Bistro's warm-coloured space is larger and more formal, and the setting can hardly be beaten.
View from Waterside Bistro Haddington of St Mary's Church by Adrian Welch
There are fine views over the River Tyne from the Waterside Bistro to Haddington's imposing St Mary's Collegiate Church, and of the pedestrianised Nungate Bridge. The old stone bridge - Nungate Bridge - is said to be the oldest remaining in Scotland, and on the other side is where the French garrison gathered in 1549 (to assist the Scottish) to defeat the English holding siege to Haddington. At that time, in the days of Henry VIII, the Scottish Parliament met in Haddington.
Waterside Bistro: Service
Mon-Fri 11.30am-2pm, 6.30-10pm; Sat 11.30am-10pm; Sun 12.30-9pm.
Waterside Restaurant: Service
Mon-Sat 11.30am-2pm, 6.30-10pm; Sun 12.30-2.30pm, 6.30-9pm
no website, no e-mail [last checked sep 2004]
View from Waterside Bistro of Nungate Bridge, Haddington by Adrian Welch
Haddington is the market town for East Lothian, formerly Haddingtonshire. It is 18 miles east of Edinburgh, off the A1. The Waterside Bistro & Restaurant stands beside the Nungate bridge just east of the centre of Haddington. The Waterside Bistro was originally the Weir House and was refurbished with five adjacent cottages. There is external dining along the frontage and on a terrace facing St Mary's Church, the largest parish church in Scotland.
East Lothian: Quality Restaurants
Greywalls Hotel
Duncur Road, Muirfield, Gullane +44 (0)1620 842144
The Waterside Restaurant & Bistro
1-5 Waterside adj. Nungate Bridge, Haddington +44 (0)1620 825674
Brown's Restaurant
1 West Road, Haddington +44 (0)1620 822254
Bonars Restaurant (formerly Poldrate Restaurant)
Tyne House, Haddington +44 (0)1620 822100
The Drovers Inn
5 Bridge Street, East Linton
+44 (0)1620 860298
Goblin Ha Hotel
Main Street, Gifford
+44 (0)1620 810 244
La Potiniere Restaurant - Main Street, Gullane
+44 (0)1620 843214
West Lothian
Champanay Restaurant - Borrowstone Cross, Linlithgow
+44 (0)1506 834532
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