Bridgend Farmhouse in Edinburgh, City of

We stopped here for lunch after doing a bike tour. The food was excellent and the presentation with edible flowers was beautiful!

Lovely community-run space, great homemade food and good company. Been coming for years and shall continue to do so. Come and support!

I had a delicious Peruvian dish today Cauliflower Aji. It was creamy and mildly spicy full of flavour. It was served with a boiled egg cut in two and two black olives. Also a delicious side salad with refreshing dressing which lifted the whole dish. A wonderful atmosphere with friendly service.

Delicious soup. So good my teenage daughter ordered a bowl. Lovely staff with delicious cakes. A wee treasure. Also nice jam and smellies to buy. My first time here but not my last.

Stupendous food, nice setting and great staff. You get a warm welcome and well fed & watered. An uplifting place to have lunch or a coffee. Highly recommend if you have not visited yet☺️

Delicious food freshly cooked. I had home grown oyster mushrooms on toast with a poached egg. Staff are very friendly and helpful.

A cosy welcoming cafe, with obliging staff. It’s great that it’s a training environment with such an open policy, all welcome. The menu is fairly short but is full of tasty freshly prepared soup, scones, cakes, baked potatoes, panini with good fillings, and always a hot dish of the day, with a veggie alternative. Good coffee too. In addition, buying anything here is supporting a very worthy community initiative. A win-win visit!

Firstly, I hope sincerely that I never meet Cleo1205, with her mean-spirited review. What a misery. My wife and I visited Bridgend cafe today at the end of a long walk, and it was perfect. The surroundings are comfortable and relaxing, we had a great coffee and delicious flapjack and the staff couldn’t have been more helpful and attentive. We will be back.

Lovely place, tasty food and Aaron and Eric were a very good customer service team. Five stars all round! Prices are very reasonable too.

Fantastic as ever, such a great community resource, so much more than a cafe, everyone so welcoming, kind and friendly, with some food sourced from the Bridgend allotments and food surplus distributed from Edinburgh's Food Share. Staff and volunteers are lovely. Muddy dogs and boots welcome!

Friendly farmhouse cafe serving freshly made good wholesome food. We visited on a Sunday, the staff were very accommodating and welcoming, we would definitely visit again. They also sell jams and chutneys that are made on the premises, we couldn’t resist purchasing a few jars.

Lovely we place and very cosy on a freezing winters morning with stove on to heat the place up

Marvellous singing in the marquee, with new friends and old. Really enjoyed the newly penned words , so apt ,and proof that the folk music of the area is alive and kicking. All to support the Farmhouse projects. Thanks to all involved.

Great community centre with lots of activities for all ages playing an important role in the community

We ordered soup and a toastie. This was written down by a volunteer. A couple whose order had been placed after ours was served before us. I pointed this out to the male server. His response was that their order had been ‘easier to prep’. A second person whose order had been placed after ours was served next. We were then approached by a girl who introduced herself as ‘front of house’. She asked us what we had ordered. I said that we had been waiting a while and if our order wasn’t being prepared could we have our money back. Her response was that we had to remember they were all volunteers some of them quite young. The male server then came with our order. To give him credit he did say that feedback was welcome. The soup was nice and a generous bowl but could have been a bit thicker. The ‘toastie’ was misnamed. White supermarket bread had been toasted and made into a sandwich. We were charged £8 each. We left not knowing who had been responsible for the mix up with our order and what if anything was being done about it. We were not given an apology. This was our first visit and sadly also our last.

This is a great wee place everyone is friendly and makes you feel welcome the cafe has a super range of drinks and food

I like very much the exhibition on the top floor. Check it out. The garden area is lovely. Nice community place. We need more of those.

This review is for the cafe: great little find. Stopped in after visiting Craigmillar Castle for some lunch. Food was simple, but executed to perfection. Had an egg/bacon/cheese on a biscuit and a latte, both perfect. Lovely outside tables to enjoy the day as well.

Great place to go to get involved in some community gardening, woodwork classes and even bike riding and maintenance. Lots more on offer too. Great people and a great place

A fabulous find for bringing the community together. It has a wonderful atmosphere and all the staff are super friendly. Bridgend is the place to be for a chat and a coffee and lovely homemade food on special days. Highly recommended with lots to do and get involved with . Five stars from me.*****

Delicious home made food in the cafe.

Very helpful nice people who helped me to fix my bycicle and provided some healthy lunch for free ;) also I did little bit of volunteery work for them so if you interested guys go try and see for yourself if you like this idea or feel bored of your computer lifestyle hey you might find something to do and raise your inspiration. Have a fun!

I love Bridgend farmhouse. There is so much going on. I'm involved as one of the volunteers building the bothy and I've helped with the food projects too. They are always looking for volunteers and pre COVID-19 there was always something going on or someway to get involved. I don't think the cafe is open yet but soon hopefully. There's bike maintenance, woodworking and crafting workshops. There's also a volunteer day on a Sunday. Go along and see for yourself how wonderful the place is. Not far on the bus from town.

Was invited there by the Edinburgh Chinwaggers Club and, although it was a little on the cool side, the company made up for it and the food that made up the midday meal was second to none! I was driven around Edinburgh by my host and I would like to thank Jean and Elaine for a memorable day out and look forward to seeing them all again soon. They meet there on a Tuesday each week for dinner but I believe they will be changing their venue to indoors in a few weeks.

We just hosted a dance session at Bridgend to film for our Christmas show. The outdoor Pollytunnel was such a great space and the staff were so lovely. They were helpful, friendly and nothing was too much trouble. I'd definitely recommend the venue. Thank you snow much!

Wonderful outdoor community space. Was great to take part in the dancing that was on today the polytunnle set up was magical. Also good to have clean facilities too. Great venue.

A feather in the cap for the eh16/ eh17 postcode, i'm sure.

Excellent enterprise providing learning opportunities for the local community. They also run affordable courses in cooking, bike maintenance, woodworking and more. Well worth a visit and a fab café with meals prepared and cooked on the premises.

A lovely place!My second home 🏡

An amazing centre providing an inclusive community approach to all. Highly recommended.

Amazing community place. The gardens are lovely and plenty activities going on here. Or just make it the start and finish point for a lovely walk.

This is a lovely place to visit, has disabled ramp up to the lovely farmhouse with tables on the veranda. Nice coffees, bon accord soft drinks and large cakes, great home made dishes of the day with nice garnish. Very friendly and helpful staff. Very reasonably priced. Nice rural setting in the middle of the city. Lots of other events going on such as regular car boot sale, activities etc. Definitely worth a visit.

Its a beautiful cottage with lots to do and also lovely homemade food

Time to learn new skill, connect with nature or give back by volunteering. Amazing community, loads of activities, almost live music every 2 weeks, and a Café on site.

Nice place, the coffee lovely, people are friendly.

Fantastic place for people to get together and create, entertain, perform, grow, learn new skills, have an amazing experience and make new friends on the way! The place is so versatile you can use it for almost anything - workshops, parties, get togethers, cooking, events - you name it! - this place got it all! It is ran by a fantastic team that make great things happen! I have been to a lot of the events organised by them and my family always had fun! I highly recommend it to everyone!

A great community owned place to do all sorts of stuff woodwork, bike maintenance, outdoor pizza oven, community cafe and natural garden to play in.

Pay a visit to Bridgend Farmhouse on Old Dalkeith Road. The community cafe always seems busy and offers a good selection of freshly made dishes. If you’re just after a cup of tea and a snack, you won’t be disappointed ... the cakes are huge. There are plenty of activities and short courses on offer too. Check it out.

This is unique! Community owned and staff - apparently - entirely by community volunteers. Lovely views and great atmosphere - hard to believe you're in the city! Just down the road from the amazing historic Craigmillar Castle (currently featuring in Netflix Outlaw King!) But what's also incredible are the prices - incredibly good value. Lovely home baking and fresh hot dishes all made from scratch. So long as you don't expect chain restaurant slickness, you'll be delighted. I understand it's only open Thurs-Sat during the day- but hopefully that might change. Staff told me they're planning pop-ups with guest chefs! Book me in!

Cafe, purpose built workshops, gardens - epic location. Near to castle where Outlaw King filmed. Good parking. Cafe currently only open Thurs-Sat but what a cafe! Volunteer run, home baking, everything cooked from scratch and amazingly good value!

Predict the future by helping create it. A great place run by a really dedicated team.

A brilliant place to perform music. Staff are great.

Was passing by and spotted the whitewashed old farm house looked newly built very moved by all the effort that was put into this place. Found it very uninspiring please to help and inspire and motivate young people and creat and exchange ideas.