reviews for foyer restaurant + gallery

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Eat Scotland - The official eating & drinking guide of Visit Scotland
EatScotlands' independent assessor said:

"The Foyer Restaurant and Gallery has over the years established itself as an eatery that should not be missed. It is very comfortable, clean, and has a minimalistic feel to it. The regular change in artwork gives a refreshing new look each visit and the standards of food and service have strengthened and continue to grow, with new and exciting combinations of ingredients.."

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Margaret McCartney
Financial Times Magazine
"The Foyer is a sophisticated restaurant-gallery, brimming with light and shine......a deliciously different dining experience.

The restaurant is a trading arm of Aberdeen Foyer, which offers not only a roof, but a training and educational facility to its clients. It's not a tartan version of Jamie Oliver's Fifteen - it is staffed by professionals - but does take on disadvantaged people who are interested in working in the catering industry, and helps them to gain formal qualifications. The result is a restaurant so unstuffy that you can feet fresh air blowing through it like a gate.

And it's not a Lentil sandwich and hair-shirt salad experience. To begin I had potato and onion tart, crisp on the outside and mellow inside, scented sweetly of rosemary. I followed with a filo pastry filled with spicy vegetables, snuggled up with a date and apricot chutney I then stole as much of my husband's mushroom risotto as distraction would allow, followed by helpings from my children's plates (the children's menu has proper food on it, reconstituted dinosaur shapes clearly being extinct here). And the desserts: I swear I heard angel wings flutter nearby. My white chocolate and raspberry brulee was intense and vast, and samples of rice pudding with cinnamon pear compote proved fragrant but sadly minimal once its rightful owner realised my game.

By now you'll have missed that particular menu, for they change every six weeks along with the gallery installations. The proceeds of the restaurant go back into the Foyer, where they are used to educate and train the young people living above it. What more could you want? For the children who noticed the fudge arriving with the adults' coffee: a whole plateful of their own. "

Clarissa Dickson Wright
Scotland on Sunday
".....went to a marvellous restaurant
called the Foyer. The waiting staff were intelligent, unobtrusive and helpful and the food was a joy. Congratulations to the Chef on his witty and well constructed menu as well as his delicious cooking. Try it when next in Aberdeen or make the trip specially".

Ron MacKenna
The Herald
" Excellent range of dishes brimming with flavour. Good meal, in fact; the best I've had in Aberdeen."