Edinburgh Hotel & Cellars

One of my favourite locations sort of hidden away and out of the city good parking… Went to have dinner here for the first time, the atmosphere is good, sat outside on the deck with perfect view of the garden. On a nice warm summer evening this is a very pleasant environment to sit down have a drink and/​or food. I ordered the salt and pepper squid it was OK (easy on the salt next time…) it was quite chewy tho, the Greek salad had only 2 tiny cubes of feta and no dressing… I guess they were busy that night. My husband ordered the wagu beef, was less than the size they stated, also with too much salt. The waitress warned us about the wait, we didn’t mind at least she told us. The prices would be OK if the food was better quality. Overall the staff are pretty friendly and the location is great.

Amazing food amazing service amazing beer garden. It’s a favourite relaxing during summer its probably has one of the best beer gardens in Adelaide the food it perfect every time those who haven’t yet check this place out !

This is a review for both the pub and bottle shop. I haven’t dined at the restaurant and I am aware that they also do functions like weddings.
Cellar — this bottle shop is my alternative to East End Cellars when I don’t want to drive into the city. What I love about this place is the knowledgeable and friendly staff. My wine and gin guys work here and always have good suggestions when I am stuck or being indecisive. They stock wine from new SA winemakers (e.g. Commune of Buttons) to better known French wines, and a good selection of gin, including Dodd’s (small batch, organic botanicals). There are regular free and paid (masterclasses) tastings and larger events such as The Grenache Cup and The Boutique Beer Challenge. The latter is definitely worth checking out because it’s not as busy as The East End Wine Down in Vardon Ave, and for $ 10 entry (which can be redeem with purchases on the day), you can taste more than you probably should (!) in a relaxed outdoor garden setting. Very fun and very social events with lots of mingling. Sign up for their newsletter for latest tastings and other events. On-​line and drive through purchases available.
Pub — I love their beer garden which is a great place for groups as well as families. The food menu has a mix of reasonably priced classic pub food as well as modern Australian and should please most palates, and they have a terrific kids menu. The wine list is great and a good range of beer on tap. Service has been spot on as well. Tastings are always offered at the bar if I’m considering ordering a certain wine I’m unfamiliar with, and when I dine there with my two little kids, staff have been proactive in terms of getting me the best table for us, bringing cutlery (which is usually self-​serve) to me etc. They take reservations and is a must if dining in the outdoor area on a sunny weekend.
I’m a fan of the Ed!

One of the better pubs around the inner south-​east of Adelaide.
Great food, a good range of drinks on tap and a varied menu that includes your old favourites and some more adventurous dishes.
Reasonable prices and a great vibe out in the beer garden cap this place off. Well worth your time.

I’m underwhelmed by the Ed. I’ve had a couple good meals here and the atmosphere can be good on a sunny afternoon but the wait is always long, the food is expensive and they don’t do a good schnitzel. The DJ on a Tuesday night is awesome though. Their saving grace is the friendly staff, I suppose it’s just that nothing in their menu ever super excites me.

I have been the the Ed a few times and have always enjoyed it. Most recently I was there for dinner.
The beer garden is just gorgeous but it was far too miserable and wet on my most recent visit to enjoy. But it is so lovely in summer.
Staff are friendly, helpful and attentive. Drinks were ordered and received in an extremely timely fashion.
I had the beef bourguignon pie. Which was perfect on a winter day. Others in my part ordered the entrée tacos, oysters Kirkpatrick, and the kangaroo and thoroughly enjoyed their meals.
Highly recommend a visit to the Ed.

The Edinburgh Hotel has stunning outdoor seating, a lovely and varied menu and helpful staff. Situated on Main Street in Mitcham, the hotel consists of many small bars and rooms, all labeled with large black signs. When I went to there on a Saturday afternoon, I was lucky enough to experience their outdoor seating in the beer garden.
The beer garden is located at the northern edge of the hotel/​pub. There are many large trees to take shade under and a range of barrels to sit at and enjoy a drink. For the beer garden, they had a window in the main building where you could order drinks. The drinks were well priced.
One thing that I found pretty cool was that there was a person collecting beer glasses from tables once people were done. He even wore a shirt that said «glassy» on it. What was even more impressive than the humour with the shirt was the fact that he could carry around 40 glasses stacked up and still open the door to go inside. Some serious talent there!
Although I did not end up selecting from their exquisite snack and meal menu for the beer garden, as the event I went to was catered, I managed to have a quick browse of the menu. The meals were around $ 20 or so, which is pretty good and they all sounded great. I will have to try some of them, the next time I go.
As for the food at the catered event, I felt it was quite innovative, favoursome and well presented. The first item I had were sundried tomato and thyme pinwheels. It was a simple bite sized appetizer however the thyme and the sundried tomato paste went well together. The flatbread that held the ingredients together was also not too loose meaning that it could easily be eaten without a plate or napkin.
The second appetizer was a Brie and Quince cracker. The watercracker had a thin slice of Brie at the base followed by a small rectangular prism of quince paste. It was a very simple yet effective appetizer. It is a shame I didn’t get a photo of that one before I sent it on a one-​way journey to my stomach.
Appetizer the third was a samosa. It was filled with diced vegetables and was served hot. For this one, I thought ahead and grabbed a napkin and waited a minute for them to cool down. The same could not be said for the other people at the table who endured went straight in and found it to be quite hot indeed. The samosa was served with what appeared to be a chive sauce. The sauce was tasty and complemented the flavor of the samosa and it’s spiced vegetable contents quite well.
The fourth appetizer was a prawn wrapped in a fancy tempura batter. I am not a big seafood lover however I broke of the tip of the batter and found it to be quite nice.
Appetizer number 5 were sausage rolls and mini pasties. And the best part was, they looked like they were made at the hotel and not bought from a supermarket! The worst part was, they ran out by the time they got to me cause most people took two of them (a pastie and a sausage roll each).
The sixth and final appetizer was a thin strip of crumbed fish served with tartare sauce. I had a nice sized piece which unfortunately broke when I dipped it in the tartare sauce, however I was fortunately able to savage it. The batter was nice and not too oily. It was well crumbed and the fish was fresh.
If these appetizers are anything like the food on the menu, then I will definitely be going back. The surroundings were lovely and it was the perfect spot to spend the afternoon.

I hadn’t been here in over eight years and came for a friend’s birthday. It had changed a fair bit since then. They still have a lovely grape vine decorated beer garden with plenty of seating. Probably more than inside. They still have the usual front and sports bars for the blokes but also a café and function room as well, which made it seem a bit more classy for the ladies. We had platter food which was quite nice. A selection of canapes, mini pizzas, meatballs, lamb skewers and deep fried foods.
The staff were helpful and friendly, the clientele a bit annoying, but that’s what you get on a weekend night. All in all a good pub. Ideale for a function or summer night.

Yeah — that was pretty good — well, the food at least.
The outdoor eating area at The Ed is perfect for a warm night — Spring, Summer and even Autumn help this venue to shine.
The menu features some tasty options — it took me ages to decide what I wanted! Finally I settled on the kangaroo — served with sweet potato mash and parsnip ‘chips’ and I think my choice was pretty damned good! The tasty roo was cooked perfectly — medium rare as I had ordered. The flavours were a great match — I wanted to lick my plate clean!
I also tasted a bit of the special goat curry and it was damned good!
On a busy Saturday night, the service was somewhat impersonal to begin with but staff definitely tried their best to accommodate for our group that consisted of over thirty people, however even after making a booking, they still did not allocate enough seats. It was a long time before anyone came to take an order from our table and this just kinda annoyed me. If it had been easier to make a booking, this certainly would have been a four star review!

I’ve been going to the ed for a good few years now, mainly for their pretty good parmy deal; but I have a problem!
The problem is the staff, particularly in the restaurant area. I was there for a family lunch, we were a largish group of about 8… but we had booked, we weren’t loud or obnoxious, we had no kids running around, nobody had strange requests, we were just there for lunch.
When we arrived (on time if not early) we were informed that they were booked out and to order quickly (it could have been mentioned in an informative «let me let you in on a hot tip» style… buuuuut it wasn’t). We were given menus and one drinks menu… Genius.
We ordered one bottle of wine and a few single glasses, the wine came out warm. The waitress only asked one end of the table about drinks, so didn’t actually order a drink at this point, we ended up going to the bar.
The staff all seemed completely disinterested, plonking our meals down in front of us after yelling from the head of the table.
I have no problem with pub food, and as such pub service. But with these price points that’s clearly not what the ed are aiming for, seriously you need to up your game with your wait staff. The food was good, but nothing I would run back for.
My advice would be a mid week parmy, there are far superior places with the same price point for restaurant eating.

Right — So, now I live just down the road from the Ed Cellars & I am ashamed of the first review. But we all make mistakes right? Right?
Well, the Ed is a regular place for me now. The bottle shop is extensive with a huge selection of wine and a really knowledgable staff. Want to feel like a wine connoisseur? Head down into their actual ‘cellar’. Grange Hermitage anyone? I know what that is now — and it is expensive.
I often go there and ask for advice — so far, they have never been wrong.
What is great about the Ed Hotel, is the incredible contrast from room to room. The Restaurant is upper class with gorgeous food and looks nice enough to hold a wedding reception. This is right next to the beer garden that has such a relaxed atmosphere that it feels like you are in a less carnival’ey’ Garden of Unearthly Delights. This area gets really busy during summer & rightly so — perfect for cider.
Then there is the Front Bar. Relaxed, full of local workers often still in their work gear having a beer with their mates, gambling on the horses and winning meat trays. Food in here is the standard schnitzels with great toppings (including a mexican one with nachos in it), burgers & salads — the difference is — it is all made by the same chefs in their upmarket restaurant but the prices are incredibly lower in the Front Bar.
Old traditions stand here too — free nibbles for the regulars, a meat raffle, a bingo machine, pool & all day bread rolls. This part of the pub was kept — and rightly so — for the blokey regulars. The staff all know their name.
I love this place now — they have an app that you can download & for every check in or photo etc. you get points which you can then trade for drinks.
Great pub for so many different occasions.

I’ve loved the Ed for a long time — from weddings, bad dates, to wakes, new year’s, christmas parties, family gatherings and birthdays … I think I’ve had (or shared) all important life events here over the years!
It’s all about the outdoor area as far as I am concerned. Our favourite spot is along the back fence under the pergola (the inside café gets noisy). There’s plenty of space in the garden area so its a super kid friendly venue as they can stretch out their legs and make friends at the fountain. The only thing that makes me sad (and for which I deduct a star) is the fact that they’ve replaced the grass with astroturf, which looks like a manky green plastic shag pile carpet. Thankfully the other greenery seems to be real, and there’s some lovely vines that really frame the area nicely.
There’s a few above-​and-​beyond touches to the standard pub grub experience here. The food and service is spot on — they offer table service if you book ahead. The specials are printed out and placed on the table to save you running up to the blackboard. Carb lovers can rejoice — complimentary bread rolls come out before the meals. I ordered the pumpkin, zucchini and chickpea burger with caramelised onion and baby spinach for $ 20 and it was vegie burger perfection (plan to see if I can find a similar recipe on google!). The other meals at the table (caesar salad, pasta special and schnitzel) were all nicely presented, generously proportioned and (I’m told) tasted great. We washed it all down with pints of James Squire ale, and enjoyed the laid back atmosphere.
I’m not sure there’s a better choice anywhere in Adels if you are after a long lazy Sunday lunch.

What a little gem of a hotel.
My partner has always dragged me along to this hotel so that he could trawl through the treasures that are in the cellar. With some fantastic prices on what he describes as awesome wines, he loves checking out the bargins.
Although I love a good drop or 10, I must admit that looking up and down every isle isn’t my idea of fun and if it’s not yours then, GO INSIDE.
It would be hard to find a better beer garden.
Enclosed for your pleasure, this garden is seriously awesome.
The drinks prices are reasonable, the wine list is outstanding and if you need to organise an event there, I can honestly say from personal experience that the staff are OUTSTANDING.
Great pub, great wines, great location… What more do you want?

The only reason that this gets three stars and not 5 is that the food is so shockingly hit and miss! The vibe is great, the beer garden the best in Adelaide, the wine list amazing, the stock of craft beer improving but the food can be so dependable that it’s almost not worth going to eat. So, Mr Ed, fix your food! It’s been off for about 10 years and you need to do something about it. I’ve seen many a menu revamp, but none of them have actually hit the mark properly. That said, the lamb burger I had was tasty, if not a little over-​rosemaried. The chips had good crunch, the garlic mustard aioli almost punched my husband out with its potency and the staff were friendly, mostly. Whoever the fella with the dreads is must have been having a bad day and the glassy kid wanted to be ANYWHERE but at work. I love going to the Ed for beers and chilling, but the food needs a’fixin.

Went to the Cellars for Gin tasting. Was a great evening. Haven’t had Gin before and now that i have tried it i will definitely have it more often. Got a gin and tonic on arrival then went down to the cellar and leaned a lot about Gin’s and got to taste 2 type’s of gin’s the Sabre and the Cutlass Gin, also at the end had a very nice cocktail called Gimlet which i will be goggling to make myself.

I can’t believe that I haven’t yet written a review of The Ed! I am here nearly every week, and really love this chilled out hotel in the heart of Mitcham. It always feels like you’ve found a secret hideaway when you step into the central beer garden, complete with wine barrel cocktail tables and trellises covered in climbing plants.
My favourite thing to do at The Ed is to gather a group of girls for a long, boozy lunch on a warm afternoon where we feast on multiple dip platters (always a crowd favourite), salads, chips, and tasting platters. These lunches usually stretch into the evening as we enjoy crisp, cold whites and each other’s company.
In addition to the garden, the hotel boasts several function rooms, a semi-​fancy restaurant, a classic pub room, and a gaming area. If you are over 20, I’d advise avoiding the place on Tuesday nights– this is when the «kids» come out in full force.

You can take anybody here and have a good time. Nanna? Sure. Neighbour? Why not. Baby nephew? Absolutely. Boyfriend? Yeah! The Ed has such a nice buzzy outdoor area you can hang with anyone and have a grand old time. They have an excellent wine list and it’s a great place for functions and family dinners. It bugs me that this place isn’t closer to my house,
I wish we could pick it up and move it into the city so we didn’t have to worry about cars and taxi’s and the like. I haven’t eaten here in a while and they change the menu depending on the season, but we have always left telling the staff how amazing everything was. I do remember having a Hawaiian schnitzel and it being really, really good. The menu prices are a broad range, median being around twenty– twenty five for mains.

Since The Ed’s located smack bang in the middle of suburbia and about 4 high schools, it has a dedicated cohort of locals that love and admire the place. It’s a great pub, with a beautiful beer garden and the versatility to handle just about any group, be they 18 year old revellers, football teams, families or corporate groups.
In the Adelaidean tradition they run a solid pint and parmie (chicken parmigiana) deal that pulls a large crowd every week. Every night has its own traditional groups. Tuesday is for the youth and Thursday draws a consistently older crowd. Summer afternoons are a great time to enjoy The Ed as well, with sails and trees creating shade in the grassy beer garden.
The Ed Bottle Shop isn’t attached to the hotel itself and functions autonomously across the parking lot. They’ve won prizes for outstanding selections of beer and wine as well as the expertise to effectively comment on and sell their range. If you head in, have a chat with the boys about what you’re after and they’ll do their best to help you. I used to work in a bottle shop and working at The Ed’s was an envied position.

Located in greeny Mitcham side surroundings, and most commonly referred to as The Ed, this is a place that successfully caters for many differing moments.
Whether it be day or night, weekday or weekend, The Ed is almost always buzzing and I’m proud to call it my local. Tuesday in particular is notorious for being «The Ed» night.
Ideally this innovative location is best enjoyed on a sunny day, or alternatively a Summers night around the beautiful beer garden. It is also a perfect location for celebrations, with multiple function rooms on offer.
If dining is your concern, let it be known that both lunch and dinner menus are impressive, and the food will undoubtedly have you return. Not to mention that it is a great place for escapism when catching up with friends, or alternatively having some after work drinks, which carry on through the night.
If you’re in the area and looking for a nice time with a great atmosphere, check out the the Ed because the perks are endless.

I went to The Ed for the first time the other night and it was quite uneventful, but then, it was a Monday so I’m not going to hold it against them.
It’s a really nice venue and I spent the evening perched on a bar stool outside, sipping champagne and musing over the fake grass sprawled in the middle of the beer garden around a feature fountain that isn’t splaying any magical streams of water. hey, its a conversation starter.
Unfortunately I cant comment on the food because I got there when the kitchen was closed, this was at 9pm. however the wine list is quite comprehensive and I was pleased to see that the shelves weren’t lacking in spirits and liqueurs. I’m a connoisseur: not an alcoholic, but If I were, I could quite happily indulge myself here… ahem.
So definitely give it a try, the service was fast and the staff were clued up on their product. if you’re looking for a laid back evening in the working week then The Edinburgh Hotel is a good choice.