chez jules

excellent restaurant, we went to the cockburn st one, reallygoodvalue plate of the day, great food,goodservice, thoroughlygoodexperience.

great deals on food,goodplace to enjoy time with friends and family.goodvalue for money. close to the shopping area. gets busy at time. enjoy

definitely worth a trip when wining and dining in edinburgh. the set meal that they offer is great value, a tenner-you canni whack it! salad, bread and ham as you come in and pick from the decent menu options, and the goats cheese starter and steak for main are fab.goodchoices and everyone always leaves happy.

yo man, let me tell you something you can easily surmise from every other review posted before mine. chez jule is sogoodthat i would go as far as to say that i "like" it, and given that i despise nearly 100% of everything that's pretty high praise.

listen cupcake, there is a frickin rad item on the menu called a bourride. if you're an uncultured lout like me then you most likely have no idea what that is. well sunshine, its pretty much the whole damn ocean served up in some sort of divine sauce from olympus. no seriously dawg, if you like seafood this is totally your bag. oh and it's a sharing dish so if you decided to bring another uncultured brute with you then this totally the time to get frenchified. i've heard there are other things on the menu but i'm a heathen of habit so i've had this twice. twice. that's more times than i've drank plain water in the last year, that;s howgoodit is.

alsogoodwine.

i give chez jules 4 crab shells and half a sunken city out of 5

been to "chez jules" many times over the last 2 years, and i am yet to be disappointed.being french, i look at french restaurant with a rather overly critical eye, and i have to say, they got it spot on: great atmosphere, fab music (all french classics), the smell is great (yep, it matters!). 
the food is not the fancy nonsense people expect from french restaurant, so no 1/2 mini carrot sitting on a sliver of steak. you get country-side proper portion (i know, i grew up in the french countryside :p).i'd recommend the steak and lobster. the snails and frogs are also fab. you get nice salad, saussisson, bread and olives on the table. but you know, merguez, roast chicken, black pudding... all good.. all verygood:d

thanks to urban traveller for the tip!kate re and i loved this place!a cosy and a bit loud atmosphere in a true little piece of france in edinburgh! verygoodhouse wine and excellent food! stuff and service were perfect, i'll definitely come back!

always great food, always great atmosphere, have picpoul on the wine list & friendly staff so what more could you ask for? lunch time is supergoodvalue with their menu du jour.

chez jules is reckoned by some as a bit of a find, with a delightful, candlelit interior, french service, and food with stonkinglygoodprices, there shouldn't be a lot to dislike....overall, we found our mains to be excellent. finally, i felt quite in the mood for some crepes, and asked if rather than coming with ice cream, could i possibly have some chantilly instead? they duly obliged, and i have to say the cream was the only part i liked, as the orange sauce was just too rich for my tastes. i really like chez jules.

chez jules is reckoned by some as a bit of a find, with a delightful, candlelit interior, french service, and food with stonkinglygoodprices, there shouldn't be a lot to dislike.

s.o. and i went for one of our celebratory meals, so whilst supping on prosecco we perused the extensive menu. i had eaten there the week before, choosing the half lobster which was just great served up with french fries. on this occasion, we went for duck confit and smoked salmon to start and both the steaks for main.

i really liked the touch that the complementary charcuterie provided. it seems to me quite civilized to have a languorous meal in sumptuous surroundings, with bread and meat and pickles just a pre-requisite. our starters arrived looking suitably rustic. i found my salmon to be cut quite thickly, and though i'm all for big portions it felt somehow less enjoyable. s.o. wasn't impressed with the haphazard traditional plating, and found the flavours fell a bit short of what he expected. i, on the other hand, loved the luscious duck meat that flaked off of the bone.

our steaks were cooked perfectly. i adored the potato dauphinoise that it came with, and was totally distraught that i couldn't finish it despite my best attempts. all that bread at the beginning clearly did my no favours. overall, we found our mains to be excellent.

finally, i felt quite in the mood for some crepes, and asked if rather than coming with ice cream, could i possibly have some chantilly instead? they duly obliged, and i have to say the cream was the only part i liked, as the orange sauce was just too rich for my tastes.

i really like chez jules. i can see what all the fuss is about, as the experience is overwhelmingly continental. however, s.o. found it distinctly below par and much prefers his fine dining. i suppose it's a matter of taste, but take it from me, you won't go a wanting.

n.b. their lunch menu is extraordinarily priced!

i came here on friday evening with a friend and we had booked a table for 6pm.the restaurant was fairly quiet at this time which was nice but did feel a bit strange!

we were shown to our table and brought over some bread olives and salami to have with our drink. the wine i ordered came in a little glass tumbler as opposed to a wine glass which i was aware they did but it did still seem weird drinking wine that way! the food was reallygood- i had a half lobster and my friend had a steak which she ordered to be medium but it came a bit on the rare side (fine for me but not so much for her). for dessert we had a lemon sorbet and a creme brulee which was verygoodas well. the restaurant started to get very busy fairly quickly and became pretty noisy so we were quite happy once we finished eating to move on somewhere else.

the staff were lovely and polite but did seem distracted at times- like not bringing the dessert menu once we had requested it and we had to request it again and the bill etc but this wasn't down to how busy it was as there seemed to be a lot of staff working - although they weren't very identifiable as they weren't in a uniform or anything. i gave the review a 3.5 because the evening wasgoodenough but it wasn't spectacular - the food wasgoodbut the atmosphere was a bit of a non-starter.

excellent service - very swift, friendly and unobtrusive. food was lovely, we just had a roast chicken but it was just right. verygoodvalue too. nice atmosphere and will surely do very well.a very welcome addition to local dining.