Harvey Nichols Forth Floor Brasserie and Bar

You'll walk through Harvey Nichols' designer floors and suddenly emerge onto the fourth storey into something altogether more convivial than you'd expect from a department store restaurant. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the New Town sprawl below, and there's a genuine sense of occasion—the kind of place you'd take someone you want to impress without it feeling try-hard. The kitchen takes Scottish produce seriously but doesn't make a meal of it; this is brasserie cooking with actual technique and restraint, the sort of thing that works just as well for a solo lunch as it does for a proper night out. The bar knows its craft too—cocktails are measured and thoughtful rather than gimmicky.