Rocco Forte Collection

Hadrian's Brasserie Launches Menu for "Little Angels"

The Balmoral is celebrating its most successful Easter ever, with a record number of families visiting the hotel over the Bank Holiday weekend. To mark this success Edinburgh’s leading luxury hotel, is delighted to announce that it is enhancing its family friendly formula with a new weekend family menu in Hadrian’s Brasserie, one of the city’s most popular restaurants.

The Rocco Forte Collection hotel is already a leader in family friendly tourism offering the highest levels of customer care for guests with children. With increasing numbers of families visiting the hotel, The Balmoral truly understands how important it is for parents to enjoy time with their children without compromising on quality and luxury. As a result, General Manager, Ivan Artolli has introduced this award winning experience to Hadrian’s Brasserie, welcoming Edinburgh families, as well as hotel guests to enjoy fresh, seasonal cuisine in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

This weekend the hotel’s buzzy and stylish Hadrian’s Brasserie will launch its new “Little Angels” weekend family lunch menu. Michelin starred Executive Chef, Jeff Bland has created a fabulous children’s menu with tasty options that will appeal to children under 12. The menu is full of delicious, healthy dishes that parents will approve of, such as “Five a Day” Seasonal Scottish Vegetable Soup, Fresh Scottish Salmon Fingers with Baby New Potatoes and Garden Salad and Blairgowrie Strawberries and Vanilla Ice Cream. Parents can dine from the À La Carte Menu or Hadrian’s seasonal Prix Fixe menu.

After lunch Mum and Dad can relax at their table in peace with a coffee, while the children explore the restaurant’s brand new toys. Newly kitted out with books, board games, toys and even a brand new “X Box” with all the latest kids games there is plenty to keep them entertained in the restaurant, they can even watch a selection of their favourite cartoons on our portable DVD players. For the younger ones there are high chairs, Balmoral colouring books and crayons and Chef will even warm baby’s milk.

To celebrate the new menu, Hadrian’s is launching an excusive colouring – in competition. The competition will be available from Hadrian’s or to download from the website and complete. The most colourful entry will win a weekend family lunch for two adults and their children. Download the competition from www.roccofortecollection.com and go to The Balmoral / Dining Offers.

Ivan Artolli, General Manager of the Rocco Forte Collection hotel is delighted to be spearheading the new menu, “As a parent myself, I value the time I spend with my family and as an Italian, sharing a meal with my children is central to this experience. I am very excited about the new “Little Angels” menu in Hadrian’s, the restaurant is perfect for family dining and The Chef has created a menu full of fresh seasonal, Scottish ingredients which parents and kids will both love.”

Recent Family Guest Testimonials:

“Your five star kids service is brilliant. We have really been touched by the very warm welcome given to our one year old son who stayed with us.”

“Very impressive, wonderful treatment of guests, in particular our young daughter.”

“…The Balmoral has met every one of my expectations and my childrens’.”

“ My wife, daughter and I had the great pleasure of staying at The Balmoral…It was a treat for my daughter’s birthday…your staff must have picked up on the occasion and when we returned to the room that evening…your staff had very kindly left her a teddy bear dressed in a Balmoral robe and four strawberries in chocolate…along with a lovely handwritten card. My daughter thought this was fantastic…she could not stop talking about it.”


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For more information, please contact:

Jessica Trotter     
PR and Marketing Manager   
Direct line: 0131 622 8825   
Email: jtrotter@roccofortecollection.com 

The Rocco Forte Collection was established in 1996 to create a group of luxury hotels in Europe. The hotels have individual styles, with each hotel reflecting its nationality and location. The properties are linked together under The Rocco Forte Collection, which guarantees attention to detail, quality and service delivery.

The Rocco Forte Collection comprises:
- Hotel de Russie, Rome
- Hotel Savoy, Florence
- The Balmoral, Edinburgh
- The Lowry Hotel, Manchester
- Hotel Astoria, St Petersburg
- Hotel Amigo, Brussels
- Brown’s Hotel, London
- Villa Kennedy, Frankfurt
- Hotel de Rome, Berlin
- Le Richemond, Geneva
- The Charles Hotel, Munich

Future openings: 
Prague - 2008
Verdura Golf & Spa Resort, Sicily – 2009
Marrakech – 2010
Abu Dhabi - 2010

For further information and online reservations, please visit The Rocco Forte Collection website: www.roccofortecollection.com.

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