Le Monde

Went with my girlfriend during the fringe, expecting the place to be slammed but it was surprisingly quiet which suited us perfectly!
We were seated and offered drinks quickly, all service was pretty quick and with a smile (always a bonus!)
We decided to share a start to begin with and went with the haggis bonbons.
The moment they arrived we instantly regretted our decision to share as there were only 3 bonbons, all smaller than golf balls!
Despite the tiny portion size they were delicious and I would definitely recommend.
For a main I went for the roasted lamb and my girlfriend went for fish and chips.
The lamb was beautiful and cooked to perfection, again lacking slightly in volume but I suppose that’s fancy right?
On the other hand my girlfriends fish was falling off the plate it was that big! It was that big that she needed a helping hand. Great for me as that filled a gap left by the bonbons and lamb!
Overall the meal was really tasted and cooked perfectly BUT the portion sizes were SO small, especially considering the price tag £5.50 for three tiny bonbons seems slightly off but then I suppose it’s fancy to have nothing on your plate right?
There was a great selection of beers and I really like the design of the place. Only thing I can fault is that I’m a big eater and I feel that they got the line between food quality and portion size slightly off, if my girlfriend had finished all of hers then I would’ve been starving!

It is what it is. All my visits to le monde have been on packed Friday evenings, surrounded by post employment drinkers. Fair enough, it’s the kind of place that seems to appeal to the suited and moneyed amongst us, though I’m not sure why. There is table service, which is a bonus seeing as the place is always absolutely rammed and full of posers.

Excellent cocktails and service. Food very very tasty too. Obviously being on George Street it gets very busy on weekend evenings and noisy too. Enjoyed a great birthday meal and have been several times during the day for snacks and cocktails which have all been lovely. Would love to stay in one of the very swanky rooms one day. Very glitzy but attractive décor throughout. Would reccomend x

This place is probably more well known for being a swish bar/​restaurant with a nightclub attached but it’s actually an amazing boutique hotel.
I stayed here a few years ago in their Shanghai suite and loved it! It was really big and amazingly well-​themed. The only problem is, they don’t let you choose what suite you stay in (they are all so different!) which is quite annoying considering how expensive it is!

Only popped in for a cocktail whilst wandering about edinburgh on Sunday but liked it! The cocktail menu has a load to choose from and the prices fairly standard for a city centre place.
Went for an apple and pear mojito which was yummy — what’s not to like? It was sweet and fruity and full of rum ;-) boyfriend went for a dark rum cocktail which I forget the name but he loved it and we had a nice time in relaxed but busy surroundings. Would go back again if looking for a drink in Edinburgh or some food as it looked pretty tasty.

The most amazing cocktails ever! Hard to choose which one to have.
The food is gorgeous and the service was excellent. A fun place to be and a great night.
I would definitely recommend to everyone I know!

We were told we could sit in their heated «terrace», in the street glasshouse rented for Dec.
It was blinkin cold! So cold, that i sat in a coat and scarf during lunch. My son ate his dinner with his gloves on.
Service was impersonal, taking 35 minutes for food to arrive.
My 2 sons ate macaroni cheese, £20 in all, honestly heinz do a better canned version. Dont be fooled by «mozzarella» and «parmesan» in the description, we could’nt see any nor taste any. Even my 12 & 15 year old sons gave up on eating it and they love mac cheese!
My £8.50 pastrami and sauerkraut sandwich was nice, but for £8.50 well overpriced.
The goats cheese filo main course was ok but nothing to write home about.
All in all the average home cook could accomplish more.
Le Monde is a jumped up has been, the average restaurant could easily compete.
Best to go next door into The Dome or to Jamie Olivers.
Good luck Le Monde, we wont be back for another £45 lunch for 2 adults and 2 kids, thouroughly disappointing.

The restaurant inside the hotel wasn’t very impressionable. The macchiato was ok and the porridge was average and dry. I was only given honey but they did have cinnamon that I could add onto. The service was also lacking especially since we were one of the few guests that came in for breakfast on a weekday morning.

Stopped in after a long walk around the castle. It was about early dinner time. I had the salmon dish that had light citrus so it was enjoyable and refreshing. Also got dessert pudding and ice cream in a pool of caramel. Sugar high! Nice atmosphere modern décor.

Is it a night club? A bar or a restaurant? Actually they are trying to be all 3 at the same time! The place looks big on the outset, gold fish bowl door and entrance lounge/​bar. Very 70’s blue, green and pink neon lighting, Go further in and you are hit by a monolith black (sparkling marble?) central block of a bar. To the left and right you have seating areas which is meant for dining and drinking. A spiral open staircase (pick neon chase lights adorned) takes you to the restrooms. Which are clean (ish) where music is piped down to the speakers. — actually they play music in all areas. LOUD.
In the back is smaller bar with a place that can be cordoned off. I was explained this is used a a VIP area or large group private dining. The latter I had experienced and which was well organised, but not so in execution. They had a lack of waiters, well no actually, there were enough staff serving, but they hadn’t allocated not enough serving staff to our group. Food was not delivered to all at the same time and drinks orders kept being messed up. This all caused our meal to last longer and we were still eating when the place turned full on night club (23:00) with gyrating people bobbing in your view when on your coffee and cake.
On a different visit the wife and I went for a romantic anniversary meal. Their menu is extensive and a little pricey. I found the waiting staff friendly but difficult to summon. Did I mention the loud music before? Try having a meal for two in the same room were people are shouting drinks orders and are dancing around handbags around you, while in the meanwhile trying to hold a dinner conversation. Fail. It is not a nice experience having to raise your voice and sometimes even shout to the person sitting next to you. As a result most of that meal was spend in silence and using eye contact and hand gestures. An experience? yes. Romantic? no.
The last time I visited was with few friends from Italy and Switzerland and we used a booth in the corner, and oh. what is that white thing on the wall pointing into that booth? yes. a loudspeaker. We persevered and with a few cocktails and several shots of vodka it was easily overcome — just huddle together and shout like you were giving instruction to a rugby team. Italians are very well adapt to this, they actually enjoyed themselves — so a hit for them and a good choice if you are into this kind of environment and atmosphere. Loud, lively, bubbly and no chance of a conversation (no way you can use a pick-​up line under these circumstances)
So on all occasions it was the noise that ruined any experience of a nice evening, that… or maybe I am getting too old for this.

The fanciest bar I’ve ever been to in Edinburgh! imagine going to here and opium on the same night. Jokes! the cocktail i had blackberry martini was delightful. i tried to make a james bond style joke but the barman didn’t seem too bothered hhahahaaa.

Service is getting better, would nt say the food is though.
My first meal here the waiter put a reserved sign with someone else’s name on our table during the starter and informed us we had to eat quickly, we were in our starters! Needless to say I wasn’t happy. The food was… alright nothing special to be honest.
Went there last night, service has improved but the food is just a standard level. The place looks nice but that’s all it’s got going for it (personal view)

I fell through a wormhole in space while sitting on a seat in Le Monde.
I arrived at 6pm, met some friends and sat in the bar area near the door. It was a pleasant venue — quiet, with attentive staff, and altogether a bit like meeting in the foyer of a posh hotel. We ate — tasty mussels (though I’d have liked fries with them) and delicious-​looking burgers — and drank some wine, and at around 10pm it was time to leave.
And somehow, I was in another world. Wrapped up in in conversation, I really hadn’t paid much attention to what was happening around us, but we had moved from a quiet hotel foyer to a world of glamour. All the women around us seemed to be wearing more make up than clothes. The men were more covered-​up, but still done up to the nines for a Thursday night out. Walking through the fake-​tanned flesh to get to the loo and back, I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
So I have to give le Monde a middling score — it was a perfectly nice place to meet up for a drink, but it’s not somewhere I’d choose to go any later than 8pm, for fear of getting entangled in hair extensions.

I really like Le Monde.
A lot of my friends disagree with me but I think it caters for everyone really. From a nice lunch with my mum, drinks after work — or a night out, it’s always good fun.
I had my birthday there last year and ended up in Shanghai, which was pretty good fun (though I tend to like more rock n roll joints in town) there was a good atmosphere (maybe just a little bit pricey!)
I would say the chef at lunch is far better than dinner time, so if you want to try the food, I think it does tend to be better at lunchtime.
The staff are all very trendy, sometimes I think a bit ‘too’ ‘trendy’ — but they tend to be very pleasant.
All in all, a good place to go. What is nice is that they didn’t leave it too long to get revamped, unlike some other joints in town, and all the little booth areas are really nice –it’s a huge area which they’ve managed to divide up really professionally.

Have you ever picked up a long glass from a bar only for the bottom to fall off and the deliciously, fruity cocktail to go spilling all over the bar even before you’ve had a sip?
I swear myself black and blue this is what happened to me the other night. I picked up a tall glass with a Bramble inside and the bottom of the glass came away. I am a wee lass, I’m not that strong, it just… came away.
I’m not sure if the barman believed me. I felt quite bad, and he made me a fresh one. And it was good. As was the other ‘special’ bramble his colleague had made up, with jam instead of cassiss.
It’s weird. Le Monde isn’t my regular type of place as it’s a little too «George Street-​y» for me (not that this is a bad thing, just my own personal taste). But post-​elite Event on a Thursday night they had ample booths, served food till 10 which kept us well fed on some really quite delicious chips, the cocktails were flowing, staff were friendly if a little worn and edgy with my glass-​breaking abilites by the end of the night, but even then they didn’t kick up a fuss.
If I were planning a night out on town, would Le Monde be my final stop? No. But if I wanted somewhere to get a cocktail to start the night off, central, nice surroundings, friendly staff? Yes. I can imagine it would get rammed in here on a Friday or Saturday, but that’s not a fault of the bar per se.
So going against my usual slightly off-​the-​beaten-​path tastes, Le Monde is probably one of my now city-​centre go-​to bars for late night eats and a Bramble or three.

I ended up in Le Monde after our last elite event and to be honest… I ain’t feeling it. Not one bit. As soon as you walk in it is soo ridiculously over the top… with shiney things, sparkly things, fancy things and lots of different shapes and sizes and colours of lights… but still, if I am honest, looks kinda cheap. They probably have thrown so much money at trying to make it look upmarket that I think they have kinda done the opposite.
Right, so I only had like two drinks here, and they were beer. So sadly I cannot comment on how well the cocktails were made or how good the service was cause I did not have either. All I can say is £4 for a Corona… four whole Squid, yes… FOUR Spondulicks. Had I not had some wee Card thing of Joe’s to get a cheeky wee discount on my drinks I would have been having water. That is just beyond a reasonable, normal, acceptable price. That is just daylight robbery as far as I am concerned.
I do not own one of these fancy wee ‘student card’ things, even though I was actually the only student in our group. But purely on the Corona-​Gate Fiasco I doubt I will return.

Ok for a drink but ild never stay for the food again!
Overpriced, deep fried and bland thats all I can say really!!! Staff are hit ot miss as well as to whether they are any good at cocktails. Arguably had my best and worst mojito experiences there!!!
Overall skip it and go tp 99 Hannover if you want to be trendy and spend a few coins or All Bar One to keep things cheap and tasty!

Le Monde’s Thursday-​Sunday offer, obviously not valid during August, is an absolute cracker. You can get the best room in the place for not much over 100 bucks a night, and considering each and every city-​themed room is entirely unique from all the the others, it’s up there with amphetamine as an expensive and addictive habit.
For your crumpled wad of tenners, you get a spacious room with air-​con, a huge TV, rainfall shower, and a fridge stuffed with booze and snacks. You even get a couple of DVDs which are linked to the theme of your room, which is a nice touch. Given we were in Atlantis, the only room modelled on somewhere that doesn’t exist, ours were just loosely based on water, drowning or shark attacks, but for example, if you were in the Paris room, you’d likely get feelgood comedy Irreversible among others.
If I were to nitpick, I’d point out that the centrepiece fish tank in our room needed a scrub, and that the bar and restaurant, which emits the misguided bling bling attitude of George Street as a whole, isn’t as good as the hotel. They did still give us two free Mojitos as part of our stay though, a far cry from the bottled beer or glass of house plonk you’d expect from a free «welcome drink».
Overall, it couldn’t really have been much better. Very impressive.

Ignoring the odd £4 pint and overpriced cocktail, Le Monde is can risk high prices due of its wealth of quality offerings.
Admittedly, it’s décor is a direct result of today’s plush bar style that seems to be everywhere but nonetheless the level of polish applied to everything certainly works for me.
Grand seating and mellow decorations ensure a relaxed place to drink and help prove Le Monde to be a quality option for George St drinking.

If you are looking for somewhere a little bit different to stay whilst visiting our beautiful capital city then I can heartily recommend Le Monde. I stayed here last week and was impressed with everything from the immaculate rooms, the phenomenal service, the excellent standard of food and even the toiletries in the bathroom which were from L’Occitane.
Le Monde is a beautiful boutique hotel with 18 rooms each based on cities around the world except the one we stayed in which was Atlantis. Our room was amazing and there was even an aquarium with cute fish above the bed and a funky wall with gorgeous turquoise backlighting. The room was peaceful had a huge LCD TV, DVD player and a selection of underwater themed DVDs too. The mini bar was choc-​a-​bloc, came with complementary still and sparkling water and we scoffed a couple of Mars bars as a midnight snack.
The rooms are around the £200 mark but if you stay from Sun-​Thur you get them cheap and some start from £99 a night. Other cities include, Rio, Paris, Tokyo, Miami, Los Angeles and London to name a few.
Le Monde is very chic and trendy but not as pretentious and cool cat as you might expect. The bar and restaurant attracts all kinds of punters of all ages which is nice to see. We decided to have a late lunch in the Vienna restaurant and they had a weekday early bird deal of £5.95 per course between 5 – 7. I opted for the bangers and mash which is something I haven’t eaten since I was around 5 so it was a nice change. It was delicious and I scoffed it down in record breaking time. The mash was more-​ishly cream, the sausages had rosemary inside and everything was drench in a delicious gravy which was the icing on the cake.
On arrival we were given free drinks vouchers and strolling up to the bar we expected to get an orange juice so were shocked and delighted when the friendly bartender said we could get mojitos with our vouchers and they were £7 on the menu! My strawberry mojito was amazing and I sipped away in a comfy leather booth in the Paris bar feeling like Lady Muck.
I can’t big up Le Monde enough, I would recommend it to anyone… I just can’t wait for my next trip back, I think this time I’ll opt for the Tokyo room.

Pourquoi: Installé dans un petit hôtel de luxe, Le Monde est à la fois un restaurant, un night-​club et trois bars au design étudié: Vienne, Milan et Paris.
L’ambiance: Cosmopolite.
Le plus: En sous-​sol, le Shangai Club ouvre à 22h.