Centotre

New restaurant to launch at Edinburgh's National Gallery

30th September 2009, 12:25pm

A new Scottish café and restaurant is launching at the National Gallery in Edinburgh next month.

The new venture will serve ingredients from Scottish producers and growers and will offer breakfast every day from 9.00am in the National Gallery Complex, on The Mound. The restaurant will also open for dinner on Saturday evenings.

Michael Clarke, director of the National Gallery of Scotland said: "We are delighted to be working in partnership with such a high-profile and successful company as Centotre. At the National Gallery of Scotland we feel it is particularly appropriate that the cuisine will have a distinctly contemporary and Scottish flavour – to be enjoyed by our visitors from home and abroad! "

The restaurant interior will have a new look, devised by Annie and Lachie Stewart of ANTA, a family-run Scottish design and architecture firm.  Individually commissioned, hand-woven fabrics, Scottish oak and Caithness slate will feature in their planned redesign.  A number of original oil paintings by the celebrated Scottish artist Sir William Gillies will also be on show.