Edinburgh, EH1 3SW
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Restaurants & Bars
Located in Edinburgh Centre, The King James Hotel, offers dining choices morning, noon and evening. Craig’s Restaurant has an excellent menu featuring home-cooked favourites and modern European dishes, complemented by a wide-ranging list of quality wines. The Edinburgh Hotel King James offers two main eateries for your dining pleasure.
Boston Bean Company
Our Boston Bean bar, located on the third floor of The King James hotel, serves light dishes and bar snacks, and is open Monday to Saturday from 12:00 to late, Sunday 12:00 to midnight. For an added not-to-be-missed attraction, Jamie’s Scottish Evening is on from April to November 18:45 to 22:15. It is Scotland's longest running dinner show with a traditional evening of Scottish festivities, hosted by Bill Torrance.
Boston Bean Bar serves a variety of drinks, snacks and light meals in informal surroundings – perfect for between meetings, after shopping or seeing the sights, after work or before dinner. If you’re an earlier starter or a late nighter, our full room service menu offers drinks, snacks or light meals, even out of hours.
Craig’s Restaurant
Dine in comfort in Craig’s Restaurant, also on the third floor in The King James hotel’s centre. Craig’s offers guests great food, friendly service in a relaxed contemporary setting. Guests can order exquisite and varied Scottish and European dishes prepared by the head chef with the finest local produce in season.
Boston Bean Company
Our Boston Bean bar is the perfect venue to enjoy a drink, snack or light meal. Conveniently located at the heart of hotel on the third floor with options to suit all occasions and appetites.
Craig’s Restaurant
Dine in comfort in Craig’s Restaurant; situated at the heart of the hotel on the 3rd floor. It offers guests great food, friendly service in a relaxed contemporize setting.
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The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) - now programmed by Jonathan Mills - is the original centerpiece of Edinburgh's hotbed of artistic excellence every August. Around it cluster the Fringe, Military Tattoo, Jazz and Blues, Book and Edge festivals.
Europe's largest annual fireworks display with live music, the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert is the Edinburgh International Festival's long-standing final fling. "Ooh" and "aah" at the spectacle accompanying the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus in Princes Street Gardens.
Impressionist Gardens brings iconic paintings to the National Gallery of Scotland. With works by Monet, Renoir, Manet and many more, this is a major international exhibition not to be missed by any art lover.
Pieces from the world's most iconic chess set, The Lewis Chessmen, go on display at the National Museum of Scotland. The exhibition features 30 of the famous chess pieces and explores the story of their discovery and creation.
The two actor-guides in the Literary Pub Tour take visitors around old and new Edinburgh with dramatised stories of the city's literary wits. Starting at the Beehive Inn, it takes in historic pubs and quirky landmarks, ending at the Café Royal.
