Restaurants, pubs and stalls

All day dining

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• Checkpoint is worth checking out
• Copper Blossom – cocktails and food off George Street

• Foundry 39 – easy to overlook but worth a visit

• Harvey Nichols launches a new brasserie menu

• Spatch Chicken – the ultimate in comfort food

American

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• Burger & Fringe

• Castagna Restaurant, Portland #pdx

• Just Burgers and Beers: Got Beefs?

• Redwood – a little corner of California in Edinburgh

• Spatch Chicken – the ultimate in comfort food

Asian

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• Beyond Katsu: Exploring Wagamama’s Menu

• Chaophraya – come graduate in style

• Stack Dim Sum Bar – keep bringing the goodies

• Wagamama wows Edinburgh
• Wagamama’s steamed buns: my latest Asian craving
• Wagamama, Livingston – my favourite chain restaurant

Brazilian

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• Fazenda – introducing the new bar menu
• Fazenda – upscale Brazilian bar and grill hits Edinburgh

• Wines of South Africa Tasting at Fazenda

Carribean

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• Trenchtown Social Club – feelgood Caribbean food & vibes

Casual

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• The Jolly Botanist – look behind the busy front for satisfying food

Chinese

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• B & D’s Kitchen – we’ve found a new Chinese local

• Chop Chop: go to this new restaurant in Leith

• Tattu, Edinburgh – pretty as a picture

Closed

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• Amore Dogs for Italian fun

• Bar Missoni – generous and handsome sharing platters

• Edinburgh Larder Bistro: inventive, foraged and fresh

• Fatma, Edinburgh: relax and share with friends

• Galvin Brasserie de Luxe Jazz Sunday – taking it easy

• Hewat’s restaurant, Edinburgh – a visit to the Southside

• ITRI, Edinburgh – not just another Italian restaurant

• L’Artichaut: rosemary and thyme

• Mithas – Indian dining with ambitions
• Mya Thai and Indian restaurant: great Thai and friendly service

• Pinto, Shandwick Place: double-quick, filling and cheerful Mexican

• Ruthven’s at the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh

• Seadogs: Absolutely the dog’s!

• The Atrium – The most seasonal restaurant in Edinburgh?
• The Living Room’s new menu: Dining in the Dark is an exciting way to try it

• Whatever happened to… Jacques, The Backstage Bistro and La Bagatelle

• Zamorin, Linlithgow: high up on the hill there’s a restaurant

Fine Dining

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• Grazing by Mark Greenaway

• Hickory@Home – Award-winning food, direct to your dining table

• One Square Launches Beer & Spirits Paired Tasting Menu

• Rhubarb Restaurant, Edinburgh – Opulent destination dining

• The Dining Room at 28 Queen Street – a sublime dining experience

Fish

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• Bertie’s Proper Fish & Chips – Fry Me To The Moon
• Boathouse, South Queensferry: a view of the bridge

• Kilted Lobster: delicious food with a social conscience

• Mussel Inn: the sea in a pot

• Ondine Restaurant, Edinburgh – seafood heaven
• Ondine’s Crustacean bar – perfect festival food
• Ondine: fish on Sundays? Yes, please!

• Seadogs: Absolutely the dog’s!

• The King’s Wark: selling seafood on the seashore

French

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• Bistro du vin: French classics with a twist – the prix fixe menu

• Café Rouge: get off the street and keep off the cold
• Côte Brasserie: the Edinburgh Foody team visits
• Cromlix House: the perfect birthday surprise

• Gin71: tea by day, gin-inspired dining by night

• Hotel du Vin – serving up classically French cuisine
• Hotel du Vin – you can’t get everything right every time
• Hotel du Vin’s Sunday brunch’ is great food at incredible value

• L’escargot blanc – Scottish Larder
• L’escargot blanc – the perfect place to catch up
• L’Escargot Bleu: fabby French fare
• La P’tite Folie – hello, old friend. It’s been too long!
• La P’tite Folie, Tudor House – authentic French food
• Le Di-Vin: sharing food and drink with friends
• Le Roi Fou: far from the madding crowd

• Malmaison, Edinburgh – service with a heart and food with flavour

• Paul Tamburrini at the Macdonald Holyrood Hotel – a most tasteful menu
• Pompadour by Galvin: luxurious lunch in exquisite surroundings

• The Lantern Room – all change at the Courtyard by Marriott

Indian

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• A Taste of Kerala

• Cooking vegetarian in Kerala

• Dishoom Edinburgh launch event – Nicki reports

• Holy cow these sauces are good!

• Itihaas, Dalkeith: the delicate flavours of Bangladesh and India

• Konkana: The Joys of Indian Seafood

• Learn to cook Punjabi style

• Mithas – spicy, warm and welcoming lunch
• Mithas spices up July with Indian street food
• Mumbai Diner’s Club – the continuation of a great food story
• Mumbai Street Food – Indian tapas style
• My favourite foodie things 2012
• Mya Thai and Indian restaurant: great Thai and friendly service

• Navadhanya – Modern Indian dining
• Navadhanya, Edinburgh: bright and subtle spice

• Paneer – Indian cottage cheese
• Passage to India – A Hidden Gem

• Ronaq – Room with a view or should that be curry with a view?

• Shri Bheema’s – a new Indian restaurant changing dining for people with allergies
• Shri Bheema’s on Constitution Street – curry, wine and beer pairing

• Vdeep and comforting
• Vini Bal’s – Quick, authentic curry in a pouch
• Vinyasa: a warm welcome and great food
• Voujon – A Bengali Feast
• Voujon – Bengali and Indian dining in Newington
• Voujon: An Indian Dining Stalwart

Italian

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• Al Dente, Edinburgh – seasonal, regional, great Italian food

• Contini – a new way to eat Italian on George Street
• Cucina: contemporary Italian cuisine in the heart of Edinburgh

• Divino Enoteca – unveils its divine new menu for spring

• Enzo bar and restaurant: stylish Italian adds glamour to the Quartermile

• Fiocchi di Neve – a warm welcome in Dalry

• Gusto – Italian dining to suit all tastes
• Gusto: devouring the new menu

• Locanda de Gusti reopens in Dalry

• Making pasta with Rosario Sartore at Locanda de Gusti
• Menabrea: Something Old, Something New

• Paolozzi Cafe at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
• Pasta puttanesca works in more ways than one
• Pasta with Love – fabulous fresh pasta, made in Scotland
• Pitlochry – Train journeys with ScotRail Club 50 to Winter Words Festival
• Pizza Express launches Express Lunch menu
• Pizzeria1926 – authentic Neapolitan pizza in Edinburgh

• The West Room – a taste of Venice in Edinburgh’s West End
• The West Room Bar & Cichietti launch party

• Valcomino Expo showcases the best from Valle di Comino in Italy
• Vapiano – Italian fast food
• Vapiano Launch Party – pizza, pasta, prosecco and one big party

Japanese

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• Harajuku Kitchen launches its hot new izakaya at Cabaret Voltaire

• Sushi: what’s the best in Edinburgh?

• Yamato: “Yes Please” Japanese

Korean

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• Kim’s Mini Meals – maxi authentic Korean enjoyment

Levantine

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• BABA – I di’n’ed and went to Heaven

Mediterranean

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• Merienda – elegant (and delicious!) small plates in Stockbridge

Mexican

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• The Basement – the team goes for a Mexican feast
• The Basement Bar has had a Mexican facelift
• The Great Student Taco-Over at Diablo Loco
• Topolabamba – Mexican food to please a coeliac sufferer

• Wahaca Edinburgh – relaxed Mexican summer fun
• Wahaca firing up the Mexican in Edinburgh

Middle Eastern

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• Hanam’s – friendly Kurdish in the heart of the city

• Kukina – Turkish food on Leith Walk

• SOUQ – Souq Saturday’s made for Belly Dancing

• The Beach House Pop Up Supper Club

Nepalese

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• The Khukuri – Nepalese food and a hidden gem

Pizza

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• Cold Town House brings back brewing to the Grassmarket

• Five of the best: pizza places in Edinburgh

• @pizza – lunch in 90 seconds
• Pizza Geeks – the dough force is strong in this one

Scottish

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• 21212 Edinburgh – savouring excellence

• 63 Tay Street, Perth

• A Room in the West End: a cozy cellar restaurant in William Street

• Bluezy Snoozy at No. 35 at The Bonham Hotel – sweet music and the market menu

• Café St Honoré and Highland Park: Perfect slow food companions
• Caley Sample Room, Edinburgh – the best type of local pub
• Chef’s Table at the Printing Press Bar & Kitchen

• Ducks, Aberlady: all in a row

• Earthy: have lunch, get your shopping

• Fhior – the adventure continues
• First Coast, Edinburgh – Looking for a good local restaurant?
• Forage & Chatter treats seasonal ingredients with skill and love

• Ginger Snap pop-up restaurant: a glimpse of something different

• Hotel du Vin – you can’t get everything right every time

• Ishka – a new food & cocktail destination on Morrison Street

• L’escargot blanc – Scottish Larder
• La Petite Mort opens a porthole on a new world of cocktails

• Michael Neave’s Kitchen and Whisky Bar: a young chef to watch

• Pibroch – unapologetically Scottish fare
• Purslane: seasonal, local and beautifully cooked

• Reekie’s Smokehouse – fabulous Scottish BBQ

• Sonder – elegant small plate dining in Newington
• St. Andrews Brewing Company – something new, something old, all interesting
• Surf & Turf Holyrood – Scottish seafood and beef in happy harmony

• The Broughton – rising from the ashes of The Phoenix
• The Dogs surf and turf for a quick bite
• The Pantry, Stockbridge – out for brunch
• The Restauration Yard – Woodland adventures mixed with lunch & shopping
• The Stockbridge Restaurant: stylish, cosy and friendly
• The Tayberry at Kinnettle’s Hotel – luxury close to St Andrew’s old course
• The Urban Fox – a welcoming Newington neighbourhood restaurant
• The Walnut in Leith – home away from home
• The Wee Restaurant
• Twenty Princess Street – winter warmers

• Wedgwood: delicious textures and flavours
• Wedgwood: sparkling service, fabulous flavours and interesting textures
• Wee Restaurant: a small restaurant with a big heart

Seafood

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• Konkana: The Joys of Indian Seafood

Sharing/small plates

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• 83 Hanover Street serves Sunday brunch worth braving storms for

Small dishes (tapas

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• Brunch and Supper: What It Says On The Tin

• Clark and Lake Charcuterie and Bar – raclette or your life

• Fazenda – introducing the new bar menu

• Say yes to Noto

• Wine and cheese: where to go?

Spanish

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• Black Pig and Oyster – delicious Iberico in elegant surroundings

• Date for your diary – Chef’s Diaries: Scotland – The 6th Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival

• The Black Hoof brings a slice of the best of Spanish to the Scottish capital

Steak

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• Cau – moo-ving steak to another level in Edinburgh
• Chop House – On a New Block
• Chop House, Bruntsfield – Sunday Roast

• Hawksmoor, Edinburgh – Surf and Turf doesn’t come much better than this

• Kyloe hosts my roast – the smaller roast lunch, perfect for two
• Kyloe Restaurant, The Rutland, where steak’s the thing

• Leith Chop House is the latest kid on the block

• No. 8 Lister Square – Steak and Shake

• Surf & Turf Holyrood – Scottish seafood and beef in happy harmony

• The Shore Grill and Fish House – good food and friendly service overlooking the Firth

Street food

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• Around the world with Tony Singh’s Road Trip

• Food to entertain at the Fringe
• Fountainbridge Street Food Fridays
• Fringe Festival 2011 roundup – street food

• Juniper: Street food and cocktails with a view

• Scottish Street Food Awards 2017

• Things we love – Edinburgh Festivals 2015 Part 2

Sunday Roast

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• Chop House, Bruntsfield – Sunday Roast

Swedish

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• Akva – Bodabars come to Edinburgh Quay

Thai

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• Chaophraya – Breakfast with a View

• Mya Thai and Indian restaurant: great Thai and friendly service

Vegetarian

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• Earthy: have lunch, get your shopping

• Henderson’s 50/50 Festival

• Seeds for the Soul – the vegan force is strong in Bruntsfield

• The Gardener’s Cottage – finely judged flavours
• Thrive – enticing veggie/vegan restaurant bar in Bruntsfield

• Vegetarian & vegan round-up, summer 2017
• Vegetarian & vegan round-up, summer 2017 – take 2
• Veggie heaven – a vegetarian’s guide to Edinburgh

World

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• Fahrenheit Bar and Grill – hiding in plain sight

• LeftField is right up my street

• Taisteal: fine around-the-world dining in relaxed surroundings
• The Herringbone – new bar and restaurant offers warm welcome in Goldenacre

• Under the Stairs – an interesting home away from home

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• Wine and cheese: where to go?

tasting menu

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• Six by Nico – The Chippie Menu – no deep fried saveloys here

Last updated by Caroline von Schmalensee at April 16, 2017.