The Golden Key is the Haute Dolci Edinburgh club. Free to join, nothing to download. You join here, your key arrives by email, and you show it at the till. That is the honest one-line version, and everything below is detail you can stop reading whenever you like.
Nobody joins a scheme they have to research. So here is the whole thing on one page, in the order you would actually ask.
One membership. No tiers, no points to collect, no balance to keep an eye on and no expiry date. You join once and it simply runs.
Your key never changes. The lock does. It opens at eight and shuts at ten, and when your key fits, dessert is on us. How the lock works.
A chocolate shot on us, in your first email, with a date on it. Show the code and it is yours.
Tell us the day, not the year, and we put something in front of you that week.
New desserts, seasonal menus and Edinburgh nights reach members before they reach the grid.
Free to join, Edinburgh only
Your key never changes. The lock does. Every week it is set to four characters, and any key ending in one of them opens it. The lock opens at eight in the evening and shuts at ten, Sunday to Thursday.
This week the lock takes keys ending in
The four characters go out to members by email on a Sunday, and nowhere else. If your key is HD-4K7P23 you are looking for a 3.
Codes end in one of thirty two characters and four of them are live at a time, so every key fits once every eight weeks. Six or seven turns a year, each.
Sunday to Thursday, from eight until ten. We are open until eleven, but the lock is not. Show the key at the till before you order, not at the door.
Walk in, show the key, and if it fits the dessert is on us. You are never buying a chance at anything.
The lock is decided in advance and sent to every member at the same moment. Nobody at the counter can change it, and nobody needs to be asked.
Your key will fit.
We just cannot tell you when.

Nobody joins a scheme
they have to research.
Your name and your email. The postcode area and the birthday are optional, and they are what make the Edinburgh offers and the birthday week work. Your key arrives by email. Show it at the till, not at the door.
Your code is . It is on its way to your inbox with your welcome gift. Show it at the till on your next visit.

St James Quarter, open until eleven every night, round windows onto the Old Town. Bring the key.
St James Quarter · open 10:00 to 23:00, seven days
Bookings run through OpenTable, the same diary the venue already uses.
Bring the keyOpen till 11pm, seven days
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