Sixty seconds, then you know

It is a key. It lives in your email.

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.

Haute Dolci Edinburgh only Free to join No app to download A new lock every week Open eight till ten

The Golden KeyExplained

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.

What it gets you

One code,
and a reason
to use it.

  • 01

    Today’s Lock

    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.

  • 02

    A welcome gift

    A chocolate shot on us, in your first email, with a date on it. Show the code and it is yours.

  • 03

    Something on your birthday

    Tell us the day, not the year, and we put something in front of you that week.

  • 04

    First look

    New desserts, seasonal menus and Edinburgh nights reach members before they reach the grid.

The Golden KeyExplained

Free to join, Edinburgh only

Haute Dolci Edinburgh · St James Quarter

Members only

Today’s Lock

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.

  • 01

    Four characters a week

    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.

  • 02

    Eight until ten

    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.

  • 03

    Nothing to buy

    Walk in, show the key, and if it fits the dessert is on us. You are never buying a chance at anything.

  • 04

    Set before the week starts

    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.

The room and the circular windows

Nobody joins a scheme
they have to research.

Joining

One step.

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.

Just the first part. It means we send you Edinburgh offers rather than everything.

The day and the month, never the year. Something is on us that week.

Book a table

Keys are better
used than kept.

St James Quarter, open until eleven every night, round windows onto the Old Town. Bring the key.

  • Tables of one to eight book straight through here.
  • Show the key at the till, not at the door.
  • Open 10:00 to 23:00, seven days.

Haute Dolci Edinburgh

St James Quarter · open 10:00 to 23:00, seven days

Or

Bookings run through OpenTable, the same diary the venue already uses.

The small print
  • Key holder benefits apply at Haute Dolci Edinburgh, St James Quarter, only.
  • Perks are subject to change.
  • One welcome gift per member.
  • Today’s Lock: free to take part and no purchase is needed. Show the key at the till before ordering, Sunday to Thursday, between 20:00 and 22:00. Once the key has been shown and accepted inside those hours the order stands, whatever the clock does next. One free dessert per member per visit, up to the value of the highest priced item on the dessert menu. Drinks are not included.
  • Four characters are set in advance each week and sent to every member at the same time. Members are told the week’s characters by email only. Every character is used once in each eight week cycle, so every key opens the lock once every eight weeks.
  • Birthday: the day and month only, never the year. One birthday item per member per year, in the seven days from the date given.
  • Haute Dolci Edinburgh, St James Quarter, Edinburgh EH1 3AD.

Bring the keyOpen till 11pm, seven days

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