Lovely place, very friendly staff..beautiful to visit in the summer months, can be a little expensive but the quality of food you get is worth it.
Shaz Brown
First time here today 6/01/24 would highly recommend great service beautiful food lively fresh bread and water served before the meal will. Definitely be
Martina Roncati
The restaurant is absolutely gorgeous! The atmosphere, the service and the food are HIGHLY recommended!!I’d like to mention the how nice the staff is, specially James!A great place to visit with family, a date or friends! ?
Donna Guy
Thoroughly looked after by the staff. In a party of 28 our meals were generously portioned, steaming hot and delicious. Couldn't fault it and would recommend ?
Chris Buchanan
This is a favourite of ours around Christmas time. It's dog friendly, staff are great, loads of choice in menu, food is delicious, reasonably priced, and a great location. Thank you!
Ewan Ross
We finished a walk in the Haddington area with lunch at The Waterside Bistro. We were greeted and served by friendly staff. Our table looked out over the river and the old bridge with snow on the ground. We had a light lunch of soup and pate which was delicious and perfect on a very cold day.
A B H
A wunderfull location that makes your day even it is rainy and windy outside. We felt a bit like coming home or visiting close friends... the staff here is doing an outstanding great job. Everything is well organised and we could recognize immediatley that the people working here do indeed love what they do..Food was very well presented and tasted fantastic. This is the place to recommend for all who likes to be in a cosy warmhearted place with loveley people and fantastic food!Will return for sure when back in Scotland!
Sara Mack
What a beautiful evening spent at the Waterside Bistro on 15 August 2023. The best meal I have ever tasted. Greeted with a warm welcome at the door and looked after from start til finish. Very friendly professional staff. Fresh bread and butter and bottled water all ready and waiting for us when we were seated. Mains were roast pork with black pudding, trio of fish, beef burger and chips. Desserts were chefs homemade chocolate mint cheesecake, and selection of ice cream. All portions were enormous!! One soft drink and 3 alcoholic drinks. £79 total.Local produce lovingly prepared. We will be back. Just superb!
Phil Hope
A lovely venue, attentive staff and lovely food. The Guinea Fowl was cooked just right and the entire dish was very tasty. The chocolate delice was amazing.
Yvonne Smith
Took our adult kid's to celebrate ? a birthday.The Waterside is one of our favourite local eateries.Love the use of local produce and a lovely menu that doesn't overwhelm with too much choice.I had the pork loin....marvellous.Great choice of wine and beers too.Will always return. ❤
Vegetarian risotto was too salty for my taste. Jerk cod was somewhat bland but the creamed corn was tasty. Large portions. Waiter was perfect. Overpriced. Lovely location but troublesome finding the bistro and the car park.
Hoottootandoot
What a location this is! Beautiful. (We deserve so much better in this town of 'disappointing pubs.) I've forgiven it a lot before, because I had a few adequate, then, a shockingly bad meal (lentils like grit) but that was elegantly dealt with by a round of free degestifs for the table. It is a rural area, so standards may be low. MY POINT HERE is the tables on the riverside area were so dirty (2 weeks age) that I can't even describe them. They stank of rot, decay, and mostly rotten food. The area under the tables had not been cleaned that day, by the look of the debris and rotting food. The seats were also very unstable, structurally. My previous visit was with a small dog. I was shocked to see that there were (small!) dogs ON TABLES in the upper part of the outside area. (That is disgusting - largely due to the fact that the outside tables appear NEVER to be cleaned, even when visibly utterly, utterly manky. I really like dogs. On ground level and reasonably quiet. I am aware that dogs rule open space at the current time. Please, please make this the place we deserve. Surely you will feel better for that, too?
Harry Scott
We happened upon the Waterside for lunch and so glad we did. Cucumber gazpacho (pic), pigs cheek and black pudding with applesauce and the pasta with peas and broad beans were all exceptional! I only wish we were going to be in the area for dinner!
Janet “Janet Abernethy reiki” Abernethy
We chose this restaurant because it is a gluten free friendly place. With that in mind it has to be said that the batter on the fish was excellent and the chips were fine but the peas were actually hard. The tartar sauce that was advertised with it had to be asked for as did one of the meals! There were four of us, the waitress brought three meals and we thought she would be right back with other. After about ten minutes we had to seek out another server and ask where the fourth meal was. He brought it about five minutes later, but we were still missing the tartar sauce, which, for me, makes fish and chips special.The tartar sauce was clearly home made and I would highly recommend it, if you have the patience for waiting for your food. It was Friday afternoon, around 2.30 so I don't see what the issue was. A wedding party did arrive on site shortly after we ordered, and I do understand that this could make them a little more busy, but were they not expected? If not, then surely the customers who were already there and who had already ordered should have been attended to first.All in all, top marks for the fish and tartar sauce, low marks for the peas and the service. Sorry guys, this breaks my heart because I actually do like to give good reviews.
Andrew D
Despite technical problems in the kitchen, we had a great meal from a limited menu, efficiently served with no fuss. It was busy early (pre-concert for us) but that did not seem to worry the staff at all, and it was definitely ££ rather than £££! We were very happy.
Lovely place, very friendly staff..beautiful to visit in the summer months, can be a little expensive but the quality of food you get is worth it.
First time here today 6/01/24 would highly recommend great service beautiful food lively fresh bread and water served before the meal will. Definitely be
The restaurant is absolutely gorgeous! The atmosphere, the service and the food are HIGHLY recommended!!I’d like to mention the how nice the staff is, specially James!A great place to visit with family, a date or friends! ?
Thoroughly looked after by the staff. In a party of 28 our meals were generously portioned, steaming hot and delicious. Couldn't fault it and would recommend ?
This is a favourite of ours around Christmas time. It's dog friendly, staff are great, loads of choice in menu, food is delicious, reasonably priced, and a great location. Thank you!
We finished a walk in the Haddington area with lunch at The Waterside Bistro. We were greeted and served by friendly staff. Our table looked out over the river and the old bridge with snow on the ground. We had a light lunch of soup and pate which was delicious and perfect on a very cold day.
A wunderfull location that makes your day even it is rainy and windy outside. We felt a bit like coming home or visiting close friends... the staff here is doing an outstanding great job. Everything is well organised and we could recognize immediatley that the people working here do indeed love what they do..Food was very well presented and tasted fantastic. This is the place to recommend for all who likes to be in a cosy warmhearted place with loveley people and fantastic food!Will return for sure when back in Scotland!
What a beautiful evening spent at the Waterside Bistro on 15 August 2023. The best meal I have ever tasted. Greeted with a warm welcome at the door and looked after from start til finish. Very friendly professional staff. Fresh bread and butter and bottled water all ready and waiting for us when we were seated. Mains were roast pork with black pudding, trio of fish, beef burger and chips. Desserts were chefs homemade chocolate mint cheesecake, and selection of ice cream. All portions were enormous!! One soft drink and 3 alcoholic drinks. £79 total.Local produce lovingly prepared. We will be back. Just superb!
A lovely venue, attentive staff and lovely food. The Guinea Fowl was cooked just right and the entire dish was very tasty. The chocolate delice was amazing.
Took our adult kid's to celebrate ? a birthday.The Waterside is one of our favourite local eateries.Love the use of local produce and a lovely menu that doesn't overwhelm with too much choice.I had the pork loin....marvellous.Great choice of wine and beers too.Will always return. ❤
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Vegetarian risotto was too salty for my taste. Jerk cod was somewhat bland but the creamed corn was tasty. Large portions. Waiter was perfect. Overpriced. Lovely location but troublesome finding the bistro and the car park.
What a location this is! Beautiful. (We deserve so much better in this town of 'disappointing pubs.) I've forgiven it a lot before, because I had a few adequate, then, a shockingly bad meal (lentils like grit) but that was elegantly dealt with by a round of free degestifs for the table. It is a rural area, so standards may be low. MY POINT HERE is the tables on the riverside area were so dirty (2 weeks age) that I can't even describe them. They stank of rot, decay, and mostly rotten food. The area under the tables had not been cleaned that day, by the look of the debris and rotting food. The seats were also very unstable, structurally. My previous visit was with a small dog. I was shocked to see that there were (small!) dogs ON TABLES in the upper part of the outside area. (That is disgusting - largely due to the fact that the outside tables appear NEVER to be cleaned, even when visibly utterly, utterly manky. I really like dogs. On ground level and reasonably quiet. I am aware that dogs rule open space at the current time. Please, please make this the place we deserve. Surely you will feel better for that, too?
We happened upon the Waterside for lunch and so glad we did. Cucumber gazpacho (pic), pigs cheek and black pudding with applesauce and the pasta with peas and broad beans were all exceptional! I only wish we were going to be in the area for dinner!
We chose this restaurant because it is a gluten free friendly place. With that in mind it has to be said that the batter on the fish was excellent and the chips were fine but the peas were actually hard. The tartar sauce that was advertised with it had to be asked for as did one of the meals! There were four of us, the waitress brought three meals and we thought she would be right back with other. After about ten minutes we had to seek out another server and ask where the fourth meal was. He brought it about five minutes later, but we were still missing the tartar sauce, which, for me, makes fish and chips special.The tartar sauce was clearly home made and I would highly recommend it, if you have the patience for waiting for your food. It was Friday afternoon, around 2.30 so I don't see what the issue was. A wedding party did arrive on site shortly after we ordered, and I do understand that this could make them a little more busy, but were they not expected? If not, then surely the customers who were already there and who had already ordered should have been attended to first.All in all, top marks for the fish and tartar sauce, low marks for the peas and the service. Sorry guys, this breaks my heart because I actually do like to give good reviews.
Despite technical problems in the kitchen, we had a great meal from a limited menu, efficiently served with no fuss. It was busy early (pre-concert for us) but that did not seem to worry the staff at all, and it was definitely ££ rather than £££! We were very happy.