The Mad Hatter — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

This place is across from the leonardo hotel haymarket. A popular place with people traveling to Edinburgh. I myself was over from Dublin, husband and daughter in tow. I was pushing to try here the few days we were here, my husband wasn't too keen. Obviously I got my way and on our last day we headed over for dinner.

Pretty empty inside. There was a couple sitting by the window having drinks that was it. The lad behind the bar came over to us before we sat down and said sorry no children aloud. I said thats ok and left. ( should have listened to the husband from the start ha ha )

I'd advice families not to waste your time crossing the doors of this place. I will be back over in the coming weeks/months without my daughter for meetings as we are due to marry in Edinburgh this year.

Safe to say i will not be recommending this place to any of our family and friends from Ireland and Scotland.

Reply to mad hatters reply... Hi there. Im sorry but i can only review on my experience of a place and sadly in my case this experience was not pleasant. After reading your reply I completely understand where you guys are coming from. However, I do think that could have been explained to us when we were there. Instead we were called to a halt when entering and having to leave feeling embarrassed for having a child.

Im leaving this review Num1 to save other families from the experience and Num2 in the hope that you guys could put up some kind of notice on the door before entering and up on your social media sites. It will save...

The mad hatter was a great experience and a lovely pub/restaurant.

This being a pub/restaurant I'd was rather crowded with pub goers meaning it was somewhat rowdy. This of course is to be expected when visiting mad hatter.

I ordered a mad hatter burger and a amaretto sour (cocktail). The burger was absolutely massive and had to be deconstructed in order to be eaten. However the burger was very nice but could tone down on it's size because no normal person could eat something of that size.

The cocktail however was phenomenal, absolutely breathtaking. I LOVED the cocktail which shows their skill as a bartender.

In my experience it's a lovely place to eat and have a drink but do expect it to be somewhat...

I'd arranged to meet 3 friends here tonight for a meal and drinks. On arrival I was asked if I planned to eat, I said yes. I was told the kitchen was closed until 8. I said I'd have a drink, so I could wait for my friends to plan something else. I was told the bar was closed. I was completely sober, and I am baffled that something in my appearance made them decide I was not good enough for them. 1 of my friends asked again half an hour later and was told it was open as usual. This has never happened to me before and I'm quite disgusted.

And to add further insult you accuse me of lying in your reply. There was no confusion, I was told the kitchen didn't open until 8 and then that you would not...