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Eleanore.

In the MICHELIN guide2026

Leith · $$$ · Go-to · verified

30-31 Albert Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HN

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Eleanore

It sits in the 2026 MICHELIN guide at selected standing, and Time Out puts a meal here at around GBP 75 a head.1

Why go

The guide's 2026 Edinburgh list has Eleanore at selected, which is the listing rung rather than a star or a Bib Gourmand.1 It is the middle room of three from the same chef-owner pair: The Skinny describes Ardfern as turning the pedigree of Eleanore and The Little Chartroom onto breakfast.3 Time Out has it fifth on its 2026 Edinburgh list and puts the room at the top of Leith Walk.2

What locals & experts say

  • Time Out, best restaurants in Edinburgh 2026, on what it is: Relaxed neighbourhood dining and wining at the top of Leith Walk, a low-key but irresistible jaunt from chef Roberta Hall where the room is all industrial Scandi-esque neutrals with lots of light and a healthy hum of chatter and clatter and the food is done to a mouth-wateringly high standard with a reasonable enough price tag for what you're getting (£75 per person.2 A round-up entry rather than a scored single review.

Good to know

  • Price: around GBP 75 per person per Time Out's 2026 list. A round-up figure, not a printed menu price.2
  • Booking: nothing published on policy, and a guide-listed neighbourhood room is one to book.
  • Hours: nobody publishes them. Unknown here rather than guessed.
  • Getting there: 30-31 Albert Place, at the top of Leith Walk.
  • Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 5 March 2026, FHRSID 1551264. Five months old, well inside the bound.4
  • Not to be confused: three other Albert Place premises hold Improvement Required ratings, at numbers 1, 7-8 and 26. Different operators, different premises.4

Verdict

should-visit — A neighbourhood room at the top of Leith Walk that sits in the 2026 MICHELIN guide at selected standing, from the kitchen behind The Little Chartroom and Ardfern. Time Out's 2026 Edinburgh list has it fifth and describes the register precisely: relaxed dining and wining, industrial Scandi neutrals, a lot of light, a hum of chatter, and food held to a high standard at around GBP 75 a head. That last part matters, because it is the price at which a guide-listed room stops being an occasion and starts being a place you can actually use. Go for dinner and book. What keeps it off must-visit here is evidence shape rather than doubt: guide standing without a star, a round-up rather than a scored critic review, and a full List review that this pass did not fetch.

Order

  • The menu as it comes, in a neighborhood room at the top of Leith Walk

At a glance

  • Booking: book ahead
  • Timing: book ahead
  • Best for: dinner, date
  • Verified 2026-08-07

Where

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30-31 Albert Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HN

Where to go next

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DogstarMichelinnew

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James Murray earned a Michelin star working at Timberyard, then took a pub that had stood empty five years and put twenty-six seats in it.

ArdfernBib

Solid · Restaurant · Leith · $$

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Roberta Hall-McCarron's second Leith room cooks fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, which almost nothing at Bib Gourmand level does.

Key: what the badges mean

★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.

Record

page id
eleanore
city
Edinburgh
group
Restaurants
category
Restaurant
cuisine
area
Leith
price
$$$
editorial class
Go-to
verdict
Should visit
how I know
verified
confidence
medium
status
Open
address
30-31 Albert Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HN
coordinates
55.961734, -3.179868
last verified
2026-08-07