Award-winning Edinburgh restaurant to set to reopen

A family-owned restaurant in Edinburgh with a high Tripadvisor rating is set to reopen.

Aizle, formerly in St Leonard’s Street, will be set up and running in the city’s Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel from July 22.

Opened in 2014 by husband and wife, Stuart Ralston and Krystal Goff, the popular dining spot made a name for itself by being the first restaurant in the Capital to offer a surprise tasting menu and went on to become fifth-best in the UK in the fine-dining category of the 2019 Travellers’ Choice Awards for Restaurants.

Now, the team are ready to get going in their new set up after months in lockdown.

Chef patron Stuart Ralston, said: “I am really delighted to announce this exciting new chapter for Aizle. We have had six outstanding years at Saint Leonard’s Street and I will be sad not to return there, but the time is right for a change.

“I am looking forward to having a bigger space, and being able to offer more covers.

“It’s great I can bring all my staff out of furlough and guarantee them a job, which I would not have been able to do otherwise.”

Kieran Quinn, general manager at Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel, said the venue is looking forward to working with Aizle’s team.

He said: “We’re incredibly excited to be welcoming the team to Kimpton Charlotte Square.

“The space is ideal for the Aizle, an oasis at the heart of our hotel, and with BABA also reopening on 30 July, this brings our restaurant and bar offering to a truly exceptional level.”

Aizle will be located in the garden in the centre of the hotel and open for dinner Wednesday to Saturday.

As before, it will offer a six-course tasting menu, made up of local, seasonal ingredients, for £70 per person with an optional £50 drink pairing.

There will also be a private dining room seating up to 14 guests.