Mussel Steak

Walked in just after 5pm and was immediately seated. They started us off with a couple complimentary fresh oysters, which were so yummy! Ordered cullen skink, grilled scallops, and mussels cooked in white wine and shallots. Seafood was so fresh, well prepared, fairly priced. We were especially surprised with the large portion size of the mussels. Good value. Everything was delicious! Staff was professional and friendly. Environment was quiet and relaxing. We didn't have the fish and chips, but the lady next to us did and it looked really good! Will definitely come back and try other items next time

Came with my family for dinner and it was delicious! We had the mussels as an appetizer, my family ordered the linguini and I ordered the pork ribs. I didn't think a seafood dominant place would have such tender ribs, the meat literally slipped off my fork and the spicy sauce they used was to die for. Our server Daniel and our food runner (didn't catch his name, tall blonde fellow) were superb with strong attentiveness and great charisma. Highly recommend this place when you're visiting Edinburgh!

Our family birthday dinner for 5 was the best ever thanks to the amazing lobster, mussels and birthday mocktails and genuinely kindest, warmest team members ever! Thank you to the sweetest manager who made a table adjustment and treated our birthday girl like she was part of her family. She made these beautiful and scrumptious raspberry mocktails for the kids. I tried to get a number of pictures to show the lobster and mussels. They have mussels on the kids menu served with crusty bread the sauce was delicious (we dipped everything in the sauce including the mussels! . Having grown up in New England I have been lucky enough to have quite a bit of lobster growing up. The menu offered freshly caught lobster 3 ways we tried two of the three the lobsters were cooked absolutely perfectly! We picked a baileys cheesecake for dessert and one of the waiters said he would have it made kiddo style It was topped with a candle and of course Happy Birthday singing to our sweet girl from everyone was just lovely! Thank you for making our evening a treasured memory!

This place was recommended by friend who is was with I enjoyed it so much the first night that we returned a second night in a row. We were given two fresh oysters as a free starter, which was very nice. For drinks, I had an Aperol Spritz which came in a huge goblet my friend had a Peroni (beer). For our first meal, we shared the order of mussels (1kg) with white wine, cream shallot sauce. My friend had the seafood pasta I had the fish chips. Everything was yummy the fish piece that was part of the fish and chip entree was huge. We shared the sticky toffee pudding cake that was recommended by our server, Rory. It was a delicious end to our meal. We decided to return for dinner the following evening before our departure via train to Glasgow. This time, we each had our own order of mussels we shared a green salad basket of bread. I had a pornstar martini (this drink is common in UK made with vodka, passionfruit purée, lime juice, simple syrup Prosecco. It's on the sweeter side which I prefer was refreshing. We finished our meal with the sticky toffee pudding cake with vanilla ice cream again. Great friendly warm service from everyone especially Rory! Cute interior dining room with additional seating upstairs. If you love mussels (they also have lobster crab) you should visit this place!

I absolutely enjoyed my dinner at the Mussel and Steak Bar. The staff was super friendly and the food fresh and delicious. I highly recommend getting a reservation because when I was there, they were packed and were turning folks away who didn't have reservations. It's a small place located at the end of Victoria St. across from the Grassmarket hotel (which was where I was staying). They do have an upstairs for additional seating. I ordered their surf and turf and it was delicious. I am not a mussel person but truly enjoyed these. I ended up eating all of it. I also ordered a side of butter pasta which was just as delicious and their bread pudding toffee dessert. Absolutely delicious! Highly recommend.