Breakfast
The Morning Room
Our light-filled breakfast room overlooks the walled garden. A generous buffet, then a cooked Scottish breakfast made to order.
7am to 10.30am, weekends 8am to 11am
Eat and drink
Dining & whisky bar in Edinburgh's New Town
Breakfast cooked to order, a candlelit whisky bar and a short Scottish supper menu, all under one Georgian roof on Thornbury Place. Residents and non-residents are very welcome.
Three rooms
Where to eat and drink at Thornbury House
Bar and small plates
Ink & Brass
The former library, now a candlelit bar with a fire, deep leather chairs and more than 60 single malts from every corner of Scotland.
4pm to midnight, every day
Supper and private dining
The Drawing Room
Our first-floor dining room under a restored ceiling rose. A short seasonal menu, or the whole room for up to 14 guests.
Supper 6pm to 9.30pm, Wednesday to Sunday
Menus
Breakfast, supper and bar menus
Sample menus. Dishes change with the seasons and what our suppliers bring through the door.
Breakfast menu
7am to 10.30am daily (8am to 11am weekends)
Served in the Morning Room, with a buffet of fruit, granola, pastries and Scottish cheeses, then a cooked dish of your choice. Included with every room booked direct.
The full Scottish
Ayrshire bacon, Lorne sausage, Stornoway black pudding, tattie scone, free-range eggs, mushroom, tomato
Arbroath smokie
Poached in milk and bay, soft-boiled egg, brown butter, sourdough soldiers
Porridge, the proper way
VPinhead oats, salt or brown sugar, a spoon of heather honey and a dram on request
Smoked salmon & scrambled eggs
Loch-reared smoked salmon, chives, toasted sourdough
Buttermilk pancakes
VBramble compote, crème fraîche, toasted oats
Plant-based breakfast
VGSpiced beans, mushrooms, avocado, roast tomatoes, potato scone
V vegetarian · VG vegan. Please tell us about allergies when you order; we can adapt most dishes.
The Scottish larder
Cooked with produce from across Scotland
Our kitchen works with a small circle of Scottish farms, boats and producers, most within a few hours of Edinburgh.
The Scottish Borders
Lamb, raised on hill farms south of the city
Shetland
Rope-grown mussels, delivered twice a week
Arbroath
Smokies, cured over hardwood on the Angus coast
Isle of Lewis
Stornoway black pudding for the full Scottish
Perthshire
Heather honey and soft fruit for our cranachan
East Lothian
Seasonal vegetables from market gardens near the Firth
Ink & Brass
A whisky bar shelved by region
Our bar team arranges every bottle by Scotch whisky region, so it's easy to taste your way from light Lowland drams to the peat smoke of Islay. Ask for a regional flight of three.
Lowland
Light, grassy, a gentle first dram
IntensitySpeyside
Orchard fruit, honey and sherry oak
IntensityHighland
Heather, spice and a little smoke
IntensityCampbeltown
Briny, oily and richly complex
IntensityIslay
Peat smoke, iodine and sea spray
Intensity
Reservations
Dining questions
Yes. Supper (Wednesday to Sunday) and the Ink & Brass bar are open to everyone. We recommend booking supper, especially at weekends and during the Edinburgh Festival in August.
Every menu includes vegetarian and vegan dishes, and our kitchen can adapt most dishes for gluten-free and other needs. Let us know when you book.
The Drawing Room seats up to 14 for private lunches and dinners, with set menus from £55 per person. Send an enquiry and we'll put together a proposal.
Find Thornbury House
Thornbury House14 Thornbury Place, New Town
Edinburgh EH3 6QT
Hours
- Reception
- Open 24 hours, every day
- Check-in
- From 3pm (early check-in on request)
- Check-out
- By 11am (late check-out from £25)
- Breakfast
- 7am to 10.30am (8am to 11am weekends)
- Ink & Brass bar
- 4pm to midnight daily
- Supper
- 6pm to 9.30pm, Wednesday to Sunday
Supper, a dram, then bed
Make an evening of it. Book a room and breakfast is on us, with supper and the bar just a staircase away.