Ristorante Immortale is poised everywhere and nowhere, between heaven and hell. It is the restaurant that never opens but never closes, has a staff that never serves but never sleeps, where you can eat your fill but go back for more.
Ristorante Immortale is all in the mind, a metaphysical culinary Fawlty Towers where dreams and nightmares, comedy and pathos collide.
This great restaurant is given substance in this lovely mask show. All human life is here, from the vain head waiter who examines his reflection in the silver to the ageing senior waiter whose arthritic hips mean he can no longer quite keep up.
Staying just the right side of fey, and enjoyable for all the family, the show is deceptively simple but is based on great skill and terrific observational comedy. Like a waiter in a really good restaurant, it is eager to please. And it does leave you satisfied, if not necessarily hungry for more.
Until August 27. Box office: 0131-226 2428.
