A wine bar with a kitchen, six steps down on St Stephen Street in Stockbridge. We light the lamps at sunset: at sunset tonight.
Why Leerie
Named after aLamplighter
“For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,
And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;”
Stevenson grew up on Heriot Row, up the hill from here, and gave its lamplighter a name in a poem. We kept the name and the habit: the lamps go on at sunset, whatever time that is, and go off when the last table leaves.
How an evening goes
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17:00
Doors atFive
The counter fills first: twelve seats that are never booked. Wine by the glass from £7.50, snacks from the board, tables from 17:30.
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19:30
By halfSeven
The room is full. Two sittings at the tables, 17:30 and 20:00, and small plates to share: two or three each is about right.
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22:00
AfterTen
The kitchen closes at ten; the cheese and the bar don’t. Last orders at 23:00 midweek and midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
Tonight’s card · this evening
On theBoard
Fergus writes the board at four, from what came in that day. Five of tonight’s sixteen dishes and three wines by the glass:
- Loch Ryan oystersGF3.5Shallot vinegar and lemon. Each, or six for £19
- Cullen skink9Finnan haddie, potato and leek, with toast
- Roast carrots & crowdieV GF9Market carrots, crowdie, dukkah, carrot-top salsa
- Beef shin & mashGF22Braised overnight with Gamay, buttered mash, gremolata
- CranachanV8Raspberries, toasted oats, whisky cream and honey, brought in parts to build at the table
- Rkatsiteli9Skin-contact, made in qvevri · Kakheti, Georgia, by the glass
- Beaujolais-Villages7.5Gamay · Beaujolais, France, by the glass
- Crémant de Loire8Chenin Blanc · Loire, France, by the glass
Prices in pounds · V vegetarian · GF gluten-free
What’s on
Next in theBack room
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Thu22Oct
Music · 20:00 · Free
Mairi Lennox Trio
Voice, piano and double bass: Scots songs and slow jazz in the back room.
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Sun25Oct
Night · 12:30
The clocks go back
British Summer Time ends at two in the morning, so Sunday’s lamps go on an hour earlier. Long lunch from 12:30.
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Thu29Oct
Tasting · 18:30 · £35
Skin contact: six orange wines
White grapes left on their skins for a month or more, from Georgian qvevri to the Loire, with Ailsa and a plate of small things.
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Thu5Nov
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Thu12Nov
Supper · 19:00 · £48
Game supper
Four courses from the season: venison, grouse and pheasant, with wines to match.
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Thu19Nov
Night · 17:00 · £7 a glass
Beaujolais nouveau
The new Gamay can’t be sold before 00:01 on the third Thursday of November. We pour it from five, with saucisson and lentils.
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Mon30Nov
Supper · 19:00 · £42
St Andrew’s Day supper
We open on a Monday for this one. Cullen skink, beef shin, cranachan.
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Mon21Dec
Night · 15:39
The longest night
The shortest day of the year. Lamps at 15:39, soup on from four, open till one.
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Mon25Jan 2027
Supper · 19:00 · £45
Burns supper
Haggis, neeps and tatties, a reading or two, and the whisky cream from the cranachan.
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The people
Most nights,Three of us
- AilsaFloor and wine
- FergusKitchen
- PriyaBar and Thursdays
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Tables from 17:30, two sittings a night. The counter is first come, first served.
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