Franco Manca Edinburgh - St. Andrews in Edinburgh, City of

Would've been 4 stars but the pizza toppings were on the stingy side. Very nice nonetheless

Gianpiero is a great person Well done!!!

Sourdough pizza is incredible! We tried 2 pies for takeaway and enjoyed them so very much that we returned for two more. And their lemonade - phenomenal! Lovely staff and atmosphere - I wish we had sourdough pizza back home!

One of the best pizzas in town!

Ate here for the first time yesterday evening and I wasn't disappointed. The staff were very friendly and welcoming and the food was brilliant. I don't like how some places add a service charge automatically to the bill - I always feel that is a bit cheeky, but the service was such that I would have happily tipped the staff. I remember reading that the best judgement of a pizza place is with the margarita, which is what I usually have anyway - and I was not disappointed. Whenever I'm back in Edinburgh, I will definitely pay a flying visit here again. Recommended - oh, and the gents toilets were clean too, which is yet another boon for this establishment!

We didn't have a reservation on Saturday evening, and they were very polite and arranged a table by waiting 2 minutes. It has solution-oriented and friendly staff. It was intense but nothing went wrong. One person works at the pizza and we were amazed. We tried pizzas number 2 and number 10, the dough and ingredients were very delicious. Spicy olive oil went great on it. The prices are very affordable. We paid 25 pounds with drinks and found it very affordable for the amazing taste. Tiramisu looked delicious but we were very full. Thank you very much chef 👏🙌

Giampiero was absolutely awesome, he made me feel so special on my birthday with a complimentary dessert and that too a tiramisu, keep growing bud

Everything is cold, absolutely inadequate to the price, I used to order it often, now I won't order it

Great for eating pizza! Still water costs nothing, and tiramisu was included on the house. Pizza was very tasty and came very quickly. Very tasty pizzas which come from a real pizza oven. (Which you can also see live) Very nice waiters and great ambience. In addition, the toilets were very clean.

The restaurant is delicious. I tried the cheese pizza, the chicken pizza, and the hot sauce, and it was awesome The staff treated them excellently I advise you to try it 😍😍😍😍👏🏼

Guyzzz if you are travelling to Edinburgh and fond of pizzas then don’t miss this awesome place for amazing lip smacking tastyyyy pizzaasss and mind blowing tirsmisu !!! Hatts of to the chef.Definitely give it a try❤️❤️. And when we are about to leave Christoph offered us a dessert to try and didn’t even added that in our bill. The service was really applauding and felt like our family is serving the food and hence became a reason for us to visit this place again. Fantastic hospitality

We were three people, the pizza of the table that ordered 15 minutes after us arrived, ours arrived after that. We waited so long for our orders to arrive. That's why I had to miss the train and take the next train 1 hour and 45 minutes away. Do not go during crowded periods and be sure to check your account.

great food, cute place. we had giampiero as a waiter and he was phenomenal! absolutely worth returning

I want to thank the Franco Manca team in St. Andrews Square Edinburgh. My husband and I were there last night. Although we arrived at a hectic moment, we were welcomed by a fantastic member of the staff, Giampiero. He informed us that the waiting time was about 10 minutes. After a little while, he accompanied us to a table and helped us with our order. I am vegan and gluten-free, and my husband is vegetarian. Giampiero was knowledgeable about all the ingredients and different dishes on the menu. We enjoyed a mouthwatering pizza, a tasty homemade lemonade and a flavorful coffee. The atmosphere is vibrant and positive, and team members like Giampiero make the difference between a lovely experience and a stressful one in a busy location. I could not recommend this place more. Thank you all.

Very nice place, really good food and drink. Very helpful and professional staff. Antonio and Giampiero know what to do. Recommended place

Great food, great prices, lots of options including vegan and vegetarian on their regular menu and every day a different vegetarian, vegan and meat pizza special. Loved our dinner

If you are italians or if you like a proper italian pizza...you MUST go to Franco Manca 🥰

I love the pizza here! At any of these chain places really. The pizza here really hit the spot!

Great pizzas, great service, cozy place

My family had a great dinner at Franco Manca. The prices are reasonable, the space is inviting and the food amazing — and the staff is very friendly (thank you, Giampiero!).

Amazing food. Loved Margerita with Three chili mix and olives. Services were really quick and good. Staff was friendly and welcoming. We were served by Giampiero and Adrianna. Really loved their services.

Table of 10 Service was prompt, Orders arrived quickly, pizza was great.

Quality food, great service and good ambience

A little bit pricey bit it was a nice pizza base, the toppings could be more generous.

I really enjoyed the pizza. Great atmosphere, great service.

The service is poor, and the branch is probably too busy, with most people visiting mainly for its convenient location

As soon as we arrived in Edinburgh we stopped to eat something but with the doubt that an Italian pizza wouldn't be good and instead... highly recommended! Helpful staff. Giampiero was really very kind. High rating!

high quality ingredients, very good pizza! I was served by Gianpietro who is Italian and his blonde colleague, I would say excellent and friendly service

The service was very fast and the pizza was really good 😀

I ordered pizza and orange juice and it was good but not very tasty

Cozy pizzeria, good pizza and fast service. The staff is really kind, in particular Giampiero was very helpful and friendly.

The sourdough was well baked, there were only 4 small slices of chorizo on the pizza, so not particularly good value for £12.50. The waitress was rude. Atmosphere was okay, nothing notable.

Great place. Everything about my pizza was delicious.

Very nice Italian place, clean and welcoming environment. Varied and tasty food. The staff were very kind and helpful, especially Gianpiero, a really smart young man from Palermo. Average prices in Edinburgh, higher than in Italy

Well... I love sourdough and the edge of the pizza was quite tasty, the rest of the pizza base was basically non-existent, it was rolled out so thin - either you had to get the topping onto the fork somehow or you got the topping from the middle placed over the edge and eaten like that. You definitely couldn't eat the pizza like a normal pizza. The topping was generally rather lukewarm and somehow very oily. At the beginning you get a free bottle of water with glasses, which was nice but the bill is rather misleading. There are two amounts in bold on it - first the actual payment amount, then the payment amount with an optional 10% tip. If you don't look closely, it looks as if the amount is listed once with and once without taxes and you round it up again for tips. In our case, this meant that we tipped around 25% and therefore paid around €50 for 2 pizzas and a pizza bread for our son, which didn't blow us away because of the thin dough. We won't come again.

A truly Italian pizza in the Scottish capital and a warm welcome by all members of the staff, but especially by Giampiero, a very polite Italian waiter that makes a good coffee

We visited during the Fridge 2024. Saturday 17th of August. The pizza its self was great, value wise was ok, we were stuffed. It did taste very good and the crusts were nice and fluffly! I do not like to complain but where it went south was when I asked what the specials were on the board and if it was pizza. The server said no its not pizza, i expected to be told its this or that, or this is the pizza on special but I was greeted with a blank expression, no suggestions or take a look at this or that. Then the final bill came, It showed the amount and a option 10% service charge. I don't leave service charges as that should be incorporated into the cost by the business - this isn't America! anyway the server approached with the card machine and had already included the 10% optional charge. I queried this and they pointed to the receipt saying optional, I agreed that it was indeed optional so why did they type it into the machine, present it to me for payment assuming I was going to pay the extra 10%. The staff member didn't seem to understand, but this assumption made me pretty angry, given the food was great this left a sour taste. An example that we had a coffee later that day and the server pointed out the option charge BEFORE entering the total into the card machine, pointing this out to me. I hope they don't do this to everyone unsuspecting member of the public, especially visiting tourists who may not realise what it is.

Nice food! Thank you for your recommendation, Giampiero! Excellent customer service.

This is not Franco Manca, fake restaurant and poor quality compared with other branch in stockbridge which is amazing and I gave that one 5 stars and it deserves even 10!!

Special welcome, Gianpiero demonstrated excellent professionalism, friendliness and helpfulness.... A restaurant to be recommended to everyone, excellent pizza with quality products.

Fantastic spot with great pizza. Very accommodating with kids and dietary issues. Check it out!

Lovely place for pizza and it isn't too expensive. The service is always quick and pleasant. Can sometimes get a bit loud and the tables are a tad close together. You can sometimes feel like you are sat in a corridor if sat next to the drinks/food prep area. The pizza is worth it though!

Food is so good, I recommend this place 😝

This was the perfect place for lunch, to meet folks from South Africa and to people watch. The food was delicious!

Bland pizza - tasted okay but a bit limp and soggy. Plenty of better pizza options nearby, I won't be back.

The food was great. The atmosphere was amazing. There were so many people chatting. The food came quickly. Laurie, aged 9

Great pizza place friendly staff but slow that’s the only drawback

We had an excellent little meal at Franco Mancas, the number 8 blew our socks off and the limonciello spritzer got our rocks off. We were served by Giampiero who was an absolute delight, will definitely be coming back again!

Very good pizza, the best in Edinburgh! Thanks to the Italian waiter Giampiero, who served us.

Very good pizza, real Italian restaurant! Very kind waiters, I thank Giampiero who served us. Advised

Pizza was great as usual and we truly enjoyed the friendly service offered by our waiter Giampiero

Food is excellent and the staff were nice, But if your going to have a "completely optional" 10% service charge it should be opt in - not opt out. Either pay your staff more, or make the prices reflect the actual costs but don't try and pass an additional charge on to the customer. Also, if it is optional, teach your staff to not be visibly offended and rude when I ask to remove it from the bill.

Really great pizza as called in last min. Friendly service from all the staff definitely found a new favourite place to eat

We ate at another branch of this brand and liked their pizza very much. We went to this branch to eat again. The inside was 97% empty and a waiter asked us how many people we were. We said we were 2 people and he showed us a table for 2 people in the middle of the restaurant. The restaurant is empty, we don't want to sit in the middle, we asked if we could sit at the empty tables on the sides. “No no,” he said. That's when we said "Bye Bye". Barzo waiter, boo to you! Note: the comment in the image is the comment of the barzo waiter victim who shared the same fate with me. This bearded waiter is apparently unhappy and does not like pizza. I hope they take him out of the customer contact position and make him chop wood in the back.

Great place with yummy food! Convenient location, very close to Princes Street and Waverley station. Friendly servers

Restaurant had great ambience and was really clean and tidy. You can see that staff is taking big care of the venue. Food was absolutely delicious as well! Thank you for having us!

very good pizza, puking was wonderful 😊

A restaurant serving Italian pizza. All kinds of pizza are delicious Margherita pizza is the best 👍🏼

Italian smoked beef made me vomit at home, but tasted good.

The restaurant is terrible. The food is terrible and expensive. I ordered a glass of wine for 7 pounds and only got a small glass, which is very deceiving. The pizza is very thin and has no meat at all. It costs more than ten pounds and a pizza is not worth it at all. not full

The male waiter who took our order was very rude and did not treat us well, despite the restaurant not being busy. I don't recommend it. Twitter had a bad and racist behavior, and I do not recommend the restaurant

Delicious fresh pizzas with sourdough bases Friendly staff

Very delicious sourdough pizzas and friendly and attentive service. Another visit a few days later, lousy service but still delicious pizzas.

Tried their chicken pizza, the sourdough was light and tasty. Limonatta was tasty too. Would definitely recommend.

Bit of a wait to get seated when it was busy, and couldn't book a table in advance. However once seated, the staff are fantastic and the pizza is perfect. Great gluten free options available on the menu too. Pizza also arrived very quickly after ordering! Great restaurant in any location

All good for a catch up drink and pizza with a friend.

After trying most other highly rated neopolitan style pizza places in Edinburgh, our family of pizza snobs decided this was the best. Perfectly chewy dough and correct topping/cheese ratios. Service was fast and friendly.

Delicious pizza but too oily, okay price

Cocktail sizes feel like they’re getting smaller…Unfortunately service stops way before closing time, we couldn’t order another pizza with more than 30 mins until closing time. But delicious as always.

Very tasteless dough, it cooled very quickly and the dough lost its good texture. Edges took up a lot of space on the pizza. Almost no tomato sauce and very few ingredients (ham and mushroom). Coca Cola at £3.40, 28% of the price of the pizza, (not justified). Good service, clean place, well decorated.

I love this place, I can still taste the pizza after weeks, the delicious dough, the caper, it was certainly the best pizza of my life, I hope to return 😍

Delicious, try it you won't regret it👌👍

I went to this branch of Franco Manca on 22 June with my wife. We had Pizza and Coffees which was very nice and the staff was also very welcoming. We added a tip of 2£ with the bill. But, next day we went to the same restaurant which was not even half filled that time. We sat there and asked for 2 cups of coffee. But, the bearded person from staff said that we can't sit there as they don't want to give seat to those ordering just coffee. He then advised us to go away and check some other cafe that allows such order. This was very embarrassing as we could see faces of few others smirking while looking at us leaving. Will never visit here again. This was the only bad memory of our trip to Edinburgh.

Delicious pizza, normal size. Reasonable price.

Great pizza and wine, our server was lovely and so helpful!

Great location near the train station. Pizza was fresh, cooked perfectly, and arrived very quickly. Service excellent: warm and attentive but also knew when to leave you alone, no chasing for the bill/hovering over your shoulder. Fair prices, about as cheap as you can get for a sit-down meal in the centre of Edinburgh. I do wish there wasn't an automatic service charge but that's now the norm in the UK...

The pizza is delicious, the staff is nice ✔️

(Truffle pizza) is worth a try. 🌹

Pizza and homemade lemonade were very good, service was quick and attentive.

Fast friendly service and really yummy pizza. 😋

It’s a shame the 2 pizzas we had were good. But several points that we did not appreciate: - we ate on the terrace and the table had not been cleaned before - waitress not particularly friendly (nothing more) On the other hand, what I hated was that when paying the bill inside the restaurant, the manager did not give us the bill. After paying by credit card and asking him for the bill, I noticed a few days later that he took the liberty of giving himself a % tip without even having warned us (even though the service was not extraordinary). ). We were tourists and I think he took advantage of it and I find it dishonest. So for this last reason I do not recommend this restaurant which takes tourists for pigeons.

really lovely food and great service, the restaurant is quite small inside but always a great spot

I do not eat pizza very often, but these people make really great pizza. The dough has a perfect texture and taste. The tomato sauce also was delicious. There was a little mistake with a little underbaked pizza, but they resolved it perfectly by preparing a new one. At the end we saw that they did not changed us for that, which was a great gesture of them. Recommended.

Great pizza and service! Fantastic tomato base and dough!

Slow service, partly burnt pizza, but to be fair they didn't charge for it.

By far the worst pizza of my life. The dough has the consistency of chewing gum and is tasteless, the toppings are sparse, and the pizza is lukewarm. Simply not recommended and then you want a 10% tip.

I decided to write this review after I told my sister this story, and she said I should write these guys a good review, to be honest I don't know why I didn't think of that before! We were visiting Scotland for a few days and after having some lovely pizzas here, I accidentally left my bag under our table, not realising until the next morning when we were due to leave for our flight home - our flight was due to leave before the restaurant even opened for the day! Luckily there wasn't anything too important inside that bag, but once I got home I phoned the place up and asked if they had found it - and they had! I asked if there was any chance they could send the bag back to me, offering to pay for the postage plus some extra for their time of course, as I understood this would be really going out of their way for me... but they told me not to worry about it, and they sent it back to me with special delivery at no cost. It arrived in just a few days and wow, they were very kind considering the stupidity on my part lol, I'm not sure who was involved in this ordeal of getting the bag back to me, but I think a very belated thank you is overdue!!! <3

Visited here as we couldn't find anywhere familiar to eat, as we visited from Birmingham, England. Brought my friend with me and she enjoyed the food also. She was worried she wouldn't have enough, but it was more than enough! The pizza are huge! 😋😋 overall it was a nice evening!

Wish the dough was cooked through. If it was crispy and well structured, the pizza would nail a solid 8.1 on my personal list. Beautiful restaurant, and great service.

We recommend all ten. Excellent pizza after a long time.

We had a fantastic meal here. The pizzas, made from sourdough, are incredibly tasty and wholesome. The tiramisu was also very tasty. Definitely a recommendation.

Best pizza in Edinburgh, its a must!! Super cheap an tasty 🤌🤌🤌

Good and testy, the service was great Delicious pizza and salad. Great location and atmosphere

The place is very close to the metro, its location is very excellent, the food is delicious, and the staff are very nice, but I missed pasta, but I recommend the visit, especially the salad, which is delicious and plentiful ❤️‍🔥👌🏻

Above all, the pizzas were good. Our friendly and smiling waitress. It feels like home, personally I love it! No fuss, a good time ✌️ Enjoy 🌸

Amazing pizza with friendly staffs :D

Very bad experience. They charge you a tip without telling you and then refuse to reimburse you. They are scammers with foreigners

Small place in the center with the best pizza in Edinburgh. Thanks to the Neapolitan pizza chef, I have never eaten such good pizza

Wow 🤩 what a great pizza 🍕 We enjoyed it very much.

For those who are already familiar with Franco Manca. It’s a good Franco Manca spot.