A Wee Taste — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

Charcuterie and Wine - A Vision in Noir

It was a chilly Edinburgh evening and I was lost, drifting, searching for meaning, or maybe just someone, or something, that wouldn’t lie to me. The light spilling out onto the street from A Wee Taste called to me. Soft. Warm. Pink. But this was no Pony Club. The sign didn’t shout, it didn’t need to. It whispered. Just enough to make me curious enough to push the door open and step inside. There she stood. Karly. The kind of proprietor who knows more than she says, and sees so much more than she reveals. Her smile could sway any food cynic, and her wine list could make a priest reconsider his vows. She poured me something red, brooding, with just the right kind of regret at the finish. I didn’t ask where it came from, some things are better left mysterious. I took the bottle from her hand and for just a second, she knew. The place is small, intimate, like a secret you’re glad you stumbled upon. The cheese board arrived like a dossier of edible intelligence. Every wedge, every sliver, a character with a backstory. Manchego with a past. Brie with unresolved tension. Blue cheese with something to prove. But all pleading innocence. And the sausage rolls? Dangerous. The kind of dangerous you recognise later, maybe that night, if you survive it. Flaky on the outside, dark and rich on the inside. Like a femme fatale in a pastry dress. The charcuterie lined up before me like suspects; cured, spiced, perfectly sliced. They said nothing, but they didn’t have to. I read them like a bad alibi. Karly sauntered through the room like a conductor, orchestrating an evening where nobody wanted to leave. And I didn’t. Not until the last drop was gone, and the last fragment of guilt melted on my tongue. A Wee Taste isn’t just a wine bar. It’s a story you walk into, and if you’re lucky, you walk...

Food poison alert!!!

We visited that place today. We paid £56 for plate for two and carafe of wine. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend that place at all as me and my partner got food poison from them.

Also, the cheese board didn’t meet our expectations. The cheese and butter brand is good, the wine was decent, although the bread was dry and old, they put cheap quality nuts on the plate (walnuts, almonds and cashews), sulfate dried apricots (these shouldn’t be served at all with cheese), olives which were wrongly prepared. When I mentioned our concerns to the waitress she apologised, although she didn’t offer any replacement. Therefore, we eaten our cheese with old bread. Also, grapes were small, old and cheap (that can be observed by checking the grape stems, which in this case are dry and it was difficult to separate grapes from the stem).

The place is some way is confusing as they have cheap products mixed with good brand products, but the same time the plates are from IKEA and in the toilet you will find the soap for £30 per bottle.

Overall, the please is not worth of your money go to see another place (e.g., Nott). Moreover, we were forced to come back home earlier as 10-15 min after we left the place we felt sick, and that results in very much unpleasant afternoon call to NHS 24/7.

They must give us something which wasn’t fresh or wrongly stored....

A Wee Taste is a fabulous local spot in Edinburgh! Their wines are wonderful, a varied selection which my friend and I tried a couple of. Love the wine glasses especially, very elegant. I also had a vegan platter to eat – it's really hard to find a good quality version of this anywhere, normally the cheeses and additional items are not very well thought out. But here, it was incredible!!!! Some gorgeous cashew cheeses, the truffled one was my favourite. As well as the smorgasbord of fresh fruit, nuts, dried fruits, sourdough bread, and pickled things (among plenty more) Perello olives were served on the platter as standard – an excellent touch. I was highly impressed with the quality of the food, as a vegan especially (and my friend loved his cheese and meats platter too). Service was impeccable, the staff are all very friendly and certainly know their stuff about the menu and the wines. The decor was very cute too :) We will be back...