Edinburgh · New Town
Private dining in Edinburgh.
The full restaurant for up to 24, or a private dining room for up to 10. At one of Edinburgh's most highly regarded restaurants.
Cardinal is a 20-seat restaurant on Eyre Place, a quiet stretch of Edinburgh's New Town. We're a MICHELIN Guide Recommended restaurant, with a Good Food Guide Very Good distinction and a place in the Square Meal Top 100 2026.
For private events we offer two ways to take the space, all of it, or a room within it. Both are built around the same thing the restaurant is known for: careful cooking, a calm room, and a pace that lets the evening breathe.
Every private event at Cardinal is shaped around the occasion. Bring us a date, a rough party size and what the evening is, an anniversary, a visiting board, a rehearsal dinner, and we'll come back with a menu, a wine suggestion, a running order and a price.
Dietary requirements, specific wines, a speech, a cake, a photograph at the end of the night, we'll plan around whatever the evening needs. The room is the same restaurant you'd book a table in on any Friday; the difference is that the night is yours.
Private dining at Cardinal tends to mean one of the following. If yours isn't on this list, it almost certainly still fits, email and we'll work it out.
40ths, 50ths, 60ths and the ones beyond, seated, properly, with the kitchen's full attention.
Small weddings and rehearsal dinners for up to 24. Seated dinner with a bespoke menu, not a function.
Client entertaining, board dinners, partner dinners. The room is calm enough to talk across the table.
Private Christmas dinners for teams that take the season seriously. December fills early, enquire by September.
The private dining room suits the smallest celebrations, an anniversary dinner, an engagement, a family marking something quietly.
Edinburgh graduation parties and visiting-family dinners, usually parties of six to ten in the private room.
Our set menus are the starting point. For full-restaurant hire, we'll more often build a bespoke menu around the occasion, tell us what the evening is, and what the table eats.
Email [email protected] and we'll reply within one working day with availability, menu options and wine suggestions. Minimum spends and room hire fees vary by day and time, we'll confirm exact figures in the first reply.
14 Eyre Place
Edinburgh EH3 5EP
Wed, dinner
Thu, Fri and Sat, lunch and dinner
Sun to Tue, closed