Cargo
Cargo offers hearty fare that would be of a restaurant standard if it wasn't for small but consistent mistakes
Cargo is billed as a 'corporate' venue. Accordingly the interior architecture is modern and grand, if slightly brutal in style, and there is inoffensive (for which read dire) art on the walls - in this case pixellated Edinburgh roofscapes in shades of blue-grey. The atmosphere is friendly and the service attentive, though a few housekeeping issues come up this evening: when you take your Mum out to dinner, you don't expect her to come back from the loos complaining that one had no paper and the other had no seat. I don't know how she resolved that one.
Cargo offers hearty fare that would be of a restaurant standard if it wasn't for small but consistent mistakes. Peking duck spring rolls were tasty but too chewy, as were char-grilled king prawns for a main, and dishes with a number of ingredients tended to miss out some of the flavours (a prawn, crab and asparagus risotto had little by way of crab; and mussels were the only distinctive ingredient in a seafood chowder).
If you're drinking in this canal-side location the menu might well tempt you, but don't head there specially. [RJ Thomson]
Two courses from £12.50, three courses from £17.
129 Fountainbridge
Edinburgh