Menu from Wildest Drams
Menu highlights
Light Bites
Apple and celeriac Soup (v)
Served with crusty bread, butter and Dunsyre blue cheese
Smoked Salmon & Crab Cannelloni
With a side of sauce vierge and a dressed salad of foraged leaves and microshoots
Venison Haggis
With king scallops, Lowland whisky cream and wild elderberry coulis
Lunch
Rye stout infused beef sausages
Beef sausages infused with Black Metal Brewery's rye Stout. Served with mash and red onion gravy
I.P.A. Battered sea bass
Served with heritage potato chips and homemade tartar sauce
Crispy gnocchi (v)
With Wild mushrooms and fresh chestnuts. Served with tomato-Rosemary-red wine sauce
Crispy Gnocchi (V)
With Wild mushrooms and fresh chestnuts. Served with tomato-Rosemary-red wine sauce
Scottish salmon & Wild-caught king prawns
With butternut squash velouté and wilted spinach
Rare-cooked venison haunch
with wild mushroom & aged balsamic sauce. Heritage potatoes and seasonal vegetables on the side
Desserts
Gin & Tonic Sorbet
A trio of Gin & tonic, lime and elderflower sorbets
Stoutie Toffee Pudding
Our famous version of sticky toffee pudding, added whisky, stout and wheat beer
Cheeseboard
A trio of cheeses from I.J. Mellis Served with homemade pickle and oatcakes
More about the restaurant: Wildest Drams
Not in your wildest dreams did you think that you’d find a home where you can get together in the city centre with fine Scottish food, craft beer, and barrels of Scotland’s finest malt whiskies squirrelled away in an Edinburgh Old Town cellar, all under one roof. Wake up and smell the roses, Wildest Drams is just such a place, found on the High Street stretch of the Royal Mile, and offering you the warmest of welcomes, just for starters. While most all of the ingredients that go into the dishes made here are Scottish-sourced, Wildest Drams’ specialty is Scottish game – along with Scottish craft beer, and single-barrel, single-malt Scotch (and Scottish) whiskies.
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Wildest Drams’ independent ownership extends to the independent ethos that prevails over all this Edinburgh Old Town restaurant’s operations. The team have lovingly sculpted a home in the city centre for their culinary paradise along the Royal Mile, undertaking all the renovation of its High Street premises themselves, and collaborating on a menu that represents the best of what they like to call modern-rustic Scottish cuisine. What is distinctive about Wildest Drams is their commitment to sourcing, direct from the farm, wild-shot game, rare-breed meat and poultry, and organically-farmed produce. It’s a philosophy that not only supports Scotland’s gastronomic community, but a philosophy that carries right through to flavourful, robust dishes that make a big impact when diners tuck in.
Wildest Drams menu is restrained, considered, and crammed with slight bites and starters, burgers famous in Edinburgh’s city centre, modern classics, sides and desserts. it should be noted that Wildest Drams’ tight network of suppliers includes many Scottish brewers and distilleries, many of whose products make it into dishes like their tomato and Irn Bru soup (no, you’re not dreaming), the Blood Revenge Stout-infused beef sausage and mash, the venison Bolognese infused with Old Engine Oil Ale, and the smoked duck salad with foraged leaves, hazelnuts and mango with a raspberry beer dressing. It’s bold dishes like these that draw a crowd to Wildest Drams’ Royal Mile premises, and the fact that they also run one of the Old Town’s most respected regular craft beer and whisky tastings means it’s even more imperative that you book well ahead to ensure your spot at table.