We have been hosting birthdays since the day we opened, and one of the things I have learned over that time is that there is no single version of a birthday at Nectar. There are several, and which one you get depends almost entirely on how many people are coming. This is not a complaint and it is not a constraint. It is simply how the evening works, and understanding it in advance makes planning considerably easier, whether you are booking a table for two or asking us to hold

Edinburgh is one of the best cities in the UK for a hen party. Not because it has the biggest clubs or the loudest bars, though it has both if that is what you are after. Because it has something more useful than that: a genuinely varied and high-quality hospitality scene compressed into a city small enough to walk across in twenty minutes. That concentration matters more than most people realise when they are planning a group evening. In Edinburgh you can have dinner in a Me

Private dining in Edinburgh tends to mean one of two things. A hotel function room where the carpet does not match the chairs and the food arrives under silver cloches from a kitchen you will never see. Or a curtained-off corner of a restaurant where you can still hear the table next to you ordering dessert. Nectar is neither of those things. When you hire a space at Nectar, you are hiring a proper cocktail bar and Greek kitchen on one of Edinburgh's most characterful indepen