Street entertainers at Edinburgh Festival Fringe (c) Jenny McKelvie
If you love quality champagne, superb food and world-class architecture you will instantly fall in love with the Pommery Champagne Café Bar.
This gorgeous retreat is back for its fourth year at the Edinburgh Festival. For us this seriously classy pop up bar is as captivating as any Festival show! You get the very rare chance to enjoy the rarefied ambience of the Signet Library, one of Edinburgh’s finest buildings, which reclines just off that old Festival thoroughfare, the Royal Mile.
The downstairs bar offers a seriously tempting menu. We kicked off with a fish platter laden with such goodies as smoked salmon from Shetland and Loch Creran oysters. Things went up a notch further with our main, a plump lobster laced with garlic butter and chunky wedges. Washed down with a glass of vintage champagne this made for a truly decadent treat. They boast a tempting array of cakes and do proper coffee, all of it served without a hint of the Festival madness that awaits outside.
Upstairs they also run special events and tastings. We enjoyed an in-depth tasting courtesy of the effervescent Sara Hicks, Commercial Director of Pommery. She subtly sold us the Pommery brand, cutting a beguiling line between humour and fact. We learned that there is a Pommery not only for every occasion (she stressed that bubbly is not just an aperitif), but also a Pommery for every season – the full flavour of Winter was our favourite.
If you’re looking to escape the madness of the world’s biggest arts festival in style then we’d thoroughly recommend you lose a few hours at the Pommery Champagne Café Bar as you savour superb bubbly, bountiful lobster and the surrounds of one Edinburgh’s finest buildings.
*This blog comes in association with the Pommery Champagne Café Bar
