Smith & Gertrude Portobello
Smith & Gertrude's seaside room is a separate premises from the Stockbridge one, with its own registration, address and inspection record.1
Why go
Smith & Gertrude Limited runs a pair of Edinburgh wine bars built on cheese and wine set against each other, and this is the one at the seaside end.3 The format the name is known for, wine with cheese and charcuterie in a laid-back room, is documented at 26 Hamilton Place in Stockbridge rather than here.2 Nobody has published anything about this room.
Good to know
- Getting there: 254 Portobello High Street, at the Joppa end of the High Street.
- Hours: none published anywhere.
- Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 10 November 2022, FHRSID 1515879. Forty-five months old, well past the eighteen-month bound.1
- Not to be confused: the Stockbridge room at 26 Hamilton Place is a separate registration, FHRSID 815056, inspected 24 January 2024. Reviews of
Smith & Gertrude
are almost always about that one.4
Verdict
could-visit — The seaside branch of a Stockbridge wine bar built on cheese and wine sitting against each other, run by Amy and Duncan Findlater under Smith & Gertrude Limited. What is verifiable here is the premises itself: 254 Portobello High Street, its own registration, its own inspection. Everything written about the name in the press is about the Hamilton Place room, so this entry does not borrow it. Go if you are already on the High Street and want a glass with cheese; go to Stockbridge if you want the room the reviews are actually about. The hygiene pass is from November 2022, which is old enough to say out loud.