Blue Parrot Cantina

The restaurant offers fantastic food, excellent value, and delicious cocktails. The staff is friendly, and the restaurant is located in a charming traditional townhouse basement in the heart of Edinburgh.

I had a starter, main course, and a few drinks/cocktails (which were decent) at this restaurant. The service was very good, the food was excellent and cooked fresh, and delivered nice and hot. However, the restaurant was freezing cold. It was a small place with only one very small oil-filled radiator trying to heat the whole room, but it was not doing a good job. When I asked if the heating could be turned up, the waiter went to check but never returned with an answer. We were sitting near the radiator and were asked to move it from under our table. The cold atmosphere is the reason why we will not be coming back. Comfortable surroundings are important to me, and unfortunately, this restaurant did not meet that expectation.

Fantastic Mexican, a hidden local gem! Only open a couple days a week but always worth the visit!! Great handmade food and a very good cocktail selection. An Edinburgh must!!

This charming Mexican restaurant located in the center of Edinburgh is a must-visit. I have been here multiple times and always return for more! I highly recommend trying the piñata cocktail and the chicken and cashew chimichanga.

The food is good, but we definitely won’t be back anytime soon because the chef/manager/proprietor (not sure of his role, but he was both running the place and cooking the food) kept cracking loud jokes that the way to avoid having to isolate with covid is simply to never take a test. ‘If you don’t take a test, you will never be positive’, he said. This attitude is very concerning in the context of a pandemic when one would like to think that the people preparing one’a food have been responsible about lateral flow testing and willing to isolate if they test positive. The attitude conveyed a stark lack of responsibility or awareness, enough to make me wonder about hygiene standards generally but covid safety specifically.