Delicious! I ate here twice during my last trip to Edinburgh. The yaki soba and Ramen are so flavorful. The salted caramel ice cream with banana was amazing. The staff was nice both times and pretty attentive. read more

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Had dinner here yesterday and it was a right balls up. The waitress although friendly got my order wrong and also that of my partners. To save problems I just took what they gave me and boy did I pay the price. Was just to spicy for my palette and ended up giving me the shits the next day. Anyway the side orders were nice, the ribs need a better sauce as they just taste like rib. I know that sounds mad but the enjoyment when eating ribs for me is the flavour of the sauce. I recommend you double check what your ordering and stay away from spicy chicken unless you like flames tearing out your arse the day after. read more

If it were possible to give less stars, I would have. Three of us went to the wagamama on Royal Terrace hungry and 2 of us left with food poisoning. We both had ramen and both were unable to hold anything in for the next 36 hours. We missed the entire Hogmanay celebration as we were unable to leave the bathroom. I would like to thank the management for ensuring everything gets washed before preparing, refrigerated when received and cooked thouroughly when ordered. Luckily hospitalization was not required so treat this review as your precursor to a lawsuit should anyone ever get sicker based on your inattention to proper food handling. read more

I've been super excited to finally get a Wagamama in Edinburgh and I was not disappointed! The restaurant is clean and modern with bold flashes of colour on the walls that give a cosier atmosphere than other Wagamamas I've been to. My husband and I went around 2pm on a Wednesday afternoon. There was a good atmosphere and healthy amount of people. The tables are big and long so sit about 12, which can be a little restricting if its full. But I'm friendly and never find it uncomfortable. They try to spread people out as much as possible, we had half a table to ourselves! There are also comfy booths for 4 with a great window view out onto Lothian Road, perfect for people watching. Maybe best to avoid if your a noodle slurper like me though! Anyway, enough about my eating habits and on to the food! Ah, the beautiful food. I opted for one of my favourites, chicken raisukaree. A great blend of lime and coconut curry with stir fried chicken, mange tout, peppers and onion with steamed rice. This is a seriously satisfying dish. Fresh zingy lime, rich coconut cream and hot chillies all work together to create a perfectly balanced dish. They also serve it with prawns if you prefer which is equally delicious. Aidan went for one of their specials, which change weekly. He had an amazing noodle dish which had a lime and lemongrass base with stir fried chicken and beansprouts, topped off with chopped peanuts. I could not help but steal several large fork fulls of this! The peanuts give it an extra dimension without being as heavy as a satay or a pad Thai. The lime really lifted it and made it taste really fresh and moreish. Its a shame its not a regular, I think I could eat it every time I visited. We also had a side dish of edamame, fresh soya beans cooked in their pods and tossed in chili and garlic salt before serving. Just spicy enough to get your taste buds going! All the main dishes are under £10, our edamame were around £4 and are perfect for sharing so I think its very reasonably priced. Get yourself to Wagamama, its awesome! read more

Nice clean and open concept restaurant . The food was delicious and the service was friendly .I had the teriyaki salmon with noodles and the salmon was fresh read more

I give Wagamama a big thumbs up for the food which is delicious and very flavoursome. For me it's not the sort of food I am used too with ingredients like coconut oil and mangetout and other weird and wonderful ingredients and recipes but all absolutely worth a try. read more

Chicken Firecracker! It was delicious as it was beautifully presented. I am Asian and I should know! It was a great find in Edinburgh. read more

Wagamama - Wine Bars Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

Enjoyed the heck out of the food and the service was excellent. The four of us had four different dishes and they were all excellent. Chicken ramen has a whole chicken breast in it. Teriyaki beef was wonderful. The sliced beef tataki appetizer was terrific and my Singapore noodles were very good but they did not beat the Singapore noodles from the Flying Monk in Savannah. read more

i hadn't been in a few years but its was simply ok. i thought the wagamama ramen lacked flavor. the service was abysmal though intimate. it confused me because they have so many people yet it took forever to order or get attention. JEANS: OK by far ORDER: Waitstaff read more

Just with other restaurants of this chain they did not disappoint. The service was great the food was great as always and our overall experience with our family which is two adults and two kids was very good I recommend this place to anyone that has children read more

Ate dinner here recently before a show at Usher Hall, round the corner. We had to wait for around 10 minutes for a table but service was friendly and quick once we were seated. The steamed buns were delicious! The lamb teriyaki was also reallllly good. Hadn't been to Wagamama for ages but really like the menu changes and will be back soon. read more

This food was delicious and very fast. It's a little pricey for the atmosphere, but worth it. The staff was very attentive and the food was fantastic. This is a great place for a fast bite. read more

I went here for the first time last week and I really enjoyed it. I had always been curious about the place and for some reason I had thought it was expensive but the prices were actually reasonable. The food was out quickly and it tasted good. I was a bit safe with my choice of food so I'd like to go back again and try out some other dishes. read more

Reliable and comfortable food. Prompt service and always a pleasure to see who you might meet at the seat next to you.

Before I went to Wagamama for a friends birthday dinner I had heart plenty of good things about it. My expectations were quite high but when we got there we had to queue for a really long time and the atmosphere felt rushed. Eventually we got our table and ordered drinks but despite them writig on your menue I got the wrong beverage. We ordered food and it took quite a while for all of the plates to arrive, some people had almost finished when we got the last dishes. The food was ok, my ramen noodle soup was rather tasteless, the stock definetly needed more flavouring and I had to put loads of sauce in to make it taste of anything. It was not horrible but I was definetly expecting better. I have declined any offer of going back since. read more

Noisy, shared seating, bland food, okay service. Go find a real Japanese restaurant instead of this chain.

I used to be a big fan but recently the menu has changed and lost a lot of old favourites like the chilli men. Drinks are also quite expensive, I think there are better placed around fur the price. read more

Perfect for a cold and rainy day in edinburgh! I had the pork ramen and it was awesome. The pork was tasty and the broth was good. It did need a bit of seasoning with soy sauce, but that was readily available on the table. read more

Great Japanese restaurant with very friendly wait staff...consistently checked in on us and made sure we were happy while not standing over us. The juice was very refreshing after a long day of travelling. We also had two appetizers, which were the mushroom onigiri and the pulled pork gyoza. Very delicious and tasted fresh. Quite innovative with the pulled pork! For our principal plates I had a curry Kare Lomen soup which offered a warm coconut, chilli, lime, and lemon grass flavour. Very large satisfying portion. My mom had a Pad Thai which was hot and crisp. We both enjoyed our meals, the modern decor, and the amazing service. Superb place for dinner! read more

This was the first time I've had Wagamama and both my fiancee and I were disappointed. I had the wagamama ramen and it was a disaster - you know something is wrong when you see chicken breast in soup with seafood. As someone who loves ramen (we frequent ramen restaurants back home in Singapore), this was rather tasteless. The hallmark of any good bowl of ramen is the soup and this bowl of soup/broth was very "healthy". I suppose wagamama caters to local taste, but if I could describe wagamama ramen in one word, it would be tasteless. Notwithstanding, I only tried ramen (and the gyoza, which was average) so it would be unfair to label wagamama as a bad quick-service restaurant. Service-wise, it was good, quick and efficient. read more

I never tried Wagamama till I was in Heathrow. Since than I have been visiting Wagamama at least once a month. I love the salads. Great food. read more

For an asian chain restaurant this place is not bad. Actually as I write this review I am craving a big bowl of their ramen which honestly is pretty darn good. I have walked by this place for 3 years now and I finally decided to stop on in. I have to admit the name Wagamama kind of turned me off the place had no idea it was a noodle chain. The place is quite big and was nice and quiet when I stopped in for lunch. The waitress was a pleasant gal who was quick with our order and helped us pick our dish. I do like the fact that they have a juice bar option and with a big variety it was hard to pick. Our food came fairly quick and my eyes grew as big as saucer plates when I saw the bowl. The amount was massive! Quite good tasting as well as I ate and slurped by way through the entire bowl. I will be going back here more often as its the perfect place for a nice relatively healthy lunch and I do recommend it. Only thing I didn't care for was the price as it seems to me to be a bit expensive , but that could be because I am a penny pincher. Other then that eat here folks! read more

Very noisy and crowded with communal seating on long tables with wooden benches. A modern example of "Emperor's New Clothes" for those who follow the herd in that we are expected to enjoy, and pay to enjoy a cheaply produced menu with a large number of variations . It is a place to be seen, but not fed. read more

As an an Asian, the food was totally funky, non-asian-at-all. I left 80% of the food even though I was dying out of hunger. I was going to give 0 star for this shit but I am giving one star because of the friendliness of the staffs. read more

Okay so this is Japanese-ish food in the style of a noodle shop but with mysterious added sugar in places I was not expecting it. Depending on your tastes and your fidelity to the notion of Japanese cuisine, you might not dig this. My daughter had the Wagamama ramen noodles which came with chicken, fish, and various other things in it. She said it was lovely and not sweet. I had the teriyaki salmon soba which was nice but started to veer into too sweet for me. Maybe it's been too long since I had teriyaki but if it's normally that sweet, I can't really enjoy it. The only party who was very let down by the meal was my 5 year old who ordered mini yasai yaki soba. This was like a pudding, it was so sweet. So not for her. She ate the veg and tofu off the top and pushed it aside to beg for noodles off her sister. My hub had the saien soba and pronounced it a bit bland. He had his to take-away as he was home with a cold and could not doctor it with the chili oil or flakes they have at the table. So overall, it was fine. Service was nice and attentive. I'm just not sure about the fusion concept. I think I miss my old stomping grounds in JapanTown in San Francisco where udon noodles come in huge bowls the size of your head and there is very little sweetness involved in proceedings. read more

This was my first and will be my last visit to Wagamamas! When we arrived only 2 other tables were occupied. We were seated but then had to go in search of a waiter/waitress after sitting for 20minutes and no order taken. The only reason this gets 2 stars is because of the starters (lollipop prawns and calamari). These were very overpriced for what they were but tasty and edible unlike the main course. We both had noodle dishes one was a ramen and I can't remember what the other one was other than disgusting. Both looked like a whole coriander plant had fallen in by accident. I could still taste lumps of the stock cube used in mine. His smelled like used football socks had been added to make the stock. Upon complaining to the waitress (who we again had to search for) we were told we could have one starter on the house. The damage at the end came to nearly £50 even with this free starter. Do yourself a favour and go somewhere else, anywhere else! There are plenty of reasonably priced decent places in Edinburgh don't waste your time here. read more

FINALLY a wagamama in edinburgh. I do like this place as the food is very tasty but I realised after being elsewhere how expensive this place is for a chain?! I have had pretty much the same dishes at a fraction of the cost in other Japanese style restaurants. Its like £6 starter, £9-12 for a main & the pricey drinks... doesn't sound like too much but considering this is a chain & you can go to much better independent restaurants for about the same price, seems a bit like a rip off? But anyway, this isn't this branches fault about the prices.... the staff at this one seem great, and there seems to be enough on which makes a change from other places! The place is pretty big but service is very quick/efficient. Toilets are squeaky clean. Most times i've been i've managed to escape the huge waiting list (last time I left it was an hr, ouch!). One thing about wagamama that I think would put a lot of people off is the seating arrangements, where you pretty much end up eating sitting ontop of a stranger as you are so close together... I know its "positive eating" and all that but I don't really wanna share my table with someone I don't know! My best advice is go early/quiet times! read more

Really disappointing experience. It was my first time in this restaurant and it will be my last one. The service was more than terrible. No organization what so ever- first we were ask from three different servers in less than 4 minutes if we are ready to order.We were rushed out to finish our meal countless times even though we didn't stay long . We were unable to enjoy our dinner and have a normal conversation due to the fact that the servers were trying to get our plates before we are done. At last we were asked by few servers if we want a dessert and even when we asked for the bill another one came around to ask the same question again. Otherwise the food was not good at all either and overpriced for its quality. ( the ramen tasted like those you buy from supermarkets) I will not recommended this place to anyone. read more

Terrible service: waiting more than 30 minutes for payment. And the food is very so so, far away from delicious. The nearby Thai food is much better. read more

I had a meal here one lunch time with a friend and her child. I am already a fan of wagamama, and was satisfied with a very tasty meal this time. Main meals are good value, but I think the starters are over-priced. The staff were extremely friendly indeed, and very hospitable of the baby. The waiter (?manager) gave me an extra scoop of frozen yoghurt as he said the flavour was so delicious to try it, and a spoon for the baby without being prompted. Good meal, and no need to queue for this late lunch read more

Came to Wagamama this evening for a nice dinner, and I ended up ordering the number 30 pork ramen along with the 101 vegetable gyoza. First thing I noticed that I found a little odd was the fact the pork ramen was being served with...chicken broth? Typically a pork ramen is served with a tonkatsu pork broth, so why the chicken? Anyway, next. First item that arrived at the table was my gyoza and I must say, they were terrible. They were luke warm and so soggy and mushy, and the dipping sauce that they came with tasted like ketchup with parsley in it. Next came my ramen, and it was definitely lacking in flavor. The actual pork itself was great, but as far as the broth and the other items that were mixed in...like I said, it was all just lacking. At the end of it all, it took FOREVER for the waitress to come back and take our payment for the bill. If I was even able to come back here again (not from this country!), I would not. read more

Dropped in to check out this place just across the street from our hotel (after being in St Andrews, a one hour train ride from here, all day) and had 4 hungry children to feed as well as a gluten free parent! Amazing the service and attention to all food concerns! Japanese fusion, fresh, lots of living color! I was brought a menu with a list of 30 possible allergens and I could see what was in all the different dishes! The manager came over and said she couldn't guarantee no MSG in some of the sauces (they don't cook with MSG at all, but some of the sauces they purchase are pre-made and she didn't have an ingredients list for them, so she was conscientious enought to tell me this)...In the end I had a tailor made dish of steamed fresh veggies over rice noodles with a poached salmon on the top (no sauce) and WOW! Wonderful people, living food/greens and for Edinburgh, a pretty good price! LOVE IT! read more

I was pretty disappointed with my first (possibly only) Wagamama experience. Firstly, I found that we were constantly being rushed along with our orders and our food. The waitress was very nice but perhaps should learn to read people a bit better as my friends and I were often interrupted during our conversations. As for the food, it's ok but really quite overpriced in my opinion, as is the alcohol. I finished my food and didn't feel it hit the spot quite the way I'd hoped it would. Whilst the surroundings are nice and bright, it has the feel of a fast food restaurant. There's no where to hang your jacket (thank goodness it hadn't been raining that day otherwise I'd have had to sit with a wet jacket on) and the whole thing has a feel of fast food joint about it. In fact, my main meal arrived as my dining companion was still eating her starter. We were in and out in 1.25 hours and that was with three courses. So, this place is too expensive (for me, anyway) to go for lunch and not quite substantial enough for me to go for dinner. read more