text: After a fun afternoon chasing my friends toddler around the big amazing park in the Meadows we were feeling pretty hungry As my pal is very picky and bambinos are not welcome everywhere we decided to pop down to George Street and the HRC I am not sure why I agreed to it because the handful of times I have been I have found the food to be distinctly subpar but I thought maybe I was just ordering the wrong thingsnnFirst up service Friendly but very very slow It took a while for the waitress to take our drinks order another while for the grown ups drinks to arrive Pepsi of course we were in charge of a wee one and another five minutes for the little ones apple juice nnIt was quite difficult to stop him stealing his mums Pepsi before his juice arrived running around causing chaos is thirsty worknnFor the mains Sarah had ordered the twisted mac and cheese as usual I decided to go for the pulled pork sandwich because I have heard the pulled pork in HRC is dead good and I would recently eaten a fabulous pulled pork bun at the Bread Street Brasserie that I had not stopped thinking about sincennOf course this took ages to arrive too Cue wee man looking at the tables around us and shouting MMMM his way of saying that looks tasty feed me before jamming a yellow crayon into his mouth that his mother then had to fish out Ah the joys of parenthoodnnUnfortunately for me but happily for my waistline the pulled pork simply was not up to scratch It was dry and bland and I choked down half of it before waving the white flag The chips sorry fries were not that great either totally average and very drynnWe were not offered ketchup and our waitress did a speedy disappearing act after dropping our plates on the table so I was not able to ask her for anynnI mean it was not the worst meal I have had in my life but since I have been a handful of times before and always left disappointed I will take this as a sign that I should not go back in a hurry Or ever The presentation and preparation of the food does not justify the price eithernnThere are so many better places to eat on George Street never mind Edinburgh Give this gimicky tourist trap a wide berth nnUnless you are in for the cocktails now there is a different story