The Filling Station in East Lothian

Balmoral pies where superb enough to make more than your mouth dribble

The best sandwiches in East Lothian. Great ingredients and lovely taste. Friendly service.

Not cheapeat but the food was fantastic

A charming and conveniently located snack shop offering friendly and efficient service. Their delectable breakfast rolls are highly recommended, making it an ideal stop for those en route to Longniddry Golf Course. It is regrettable that such small businesses are becoming increasingly scarce.

I decided to hold a Baby Shower for my daughter, and always knew I’d be asking Carolyn and her team to help me, as I know from being a customer in the past how fabulous their food is, but this is the first time I’ve had an occasion where I needed outside catering, I can honestly say the attention to detail and planning from Sue who was dealing with our requests was amazing, and on the day of the event was so streamlined I had nothing to do or worry about, and when I saw the finished result from Sue I was so delighted, she went above and beyond to please, and Carolyn also a huge Thankyou for all your help on the day, I will have no hesitation in always recommending The filling Station, such amazing food, excellent quality, such a professional job with super friendly staff. Thankyou again Lynn

Best place for a quick bite to eat, if tou ever go through pans need to stop here

It’s quite a dark gloomy shop but the friendly staff make up for it. Placing an order can be difficult as you have to do a bit of digging to find a menu. You usually have to find an old picture. Although they have a website now, but the time I have went on it, there was an error on the order page so I wasn’t able to see the menu. Anyway, the service is good in store. They sell, rolls, baguettes, salad boxes, paninis, baked potatoes and a few other build your own options. They also have sweet treats and sometimes sausage rolls. Most of the food I’ve got from here has been pretty good. My favourite has been the baked potato. There are lots of fillings to choose from so you can experiment. The world is your oyster. The also don’t shy on portions. The value is fair. The sausage roll I got was average and I’ve had a Christmas special which was a little disappointing. Overall, this place is very good for what it is. My work often order from here and they really like it.

This shop was a great disappointment to us yesterday - has it changed hands since it's refurb? The layout of the shop has changed beyond all recognition and has gone from a light, airy and spacious shop to a tiny, dark and depressing shop. The menu board states toasted sandwiches and jacket potatoes but does not indicate what fillings are offered at what prices... We ordered our previous favourites of 2 prawn baguettes but as she was preparing them we were told she'd run out of prawns and could only do one and a half - what she was going to put in the other half was not made clear so we chose a cheese savoury instead.... We thought £14.60 for 2 butties and 2 tiny cups of tea was very pricey - next time we'll go a few doors along to Greggs and get 2 butties and 2 lattes for £6.70 instead!

I ordered a gluten free afternoon tea for a friend, Sue was so friendly and helpfull. My friend is delighted with it and thoroughly enjoyed it, there was loads to eat. Thank you do much Sue and staff, I will certainly recommend you to my friends and will order again. Thank you Mags

Great filled baguettes, absolute rip off tho. £6.90...

Absolutely amazing food and super lovely people behind the counter. We got the baguette with cheese savoury filling + salad and the baked potato with mystic chicken and cheese. Really big portions and paid just under 12£. We'll be back regularly from now on.

This is my favourite sandwich/ grab lunch to go spot! Been going here since I moved into town and all I can say is the owners and staff are always fantastic! Their baked potato’s are my favourite but get in there fast to get one. They are so popular the food queue is sometimes out the door at lunch! I go just after 12 and usually get one. Cheese and chicken mayo is my go to but they have so many options from bread/ wraps/ potato’s to fillings and they do sausage rolls (so yum you have to get one - and I don’t even like them much usually) to their beef or chicken pies. They do soup and cakes too. Honestly go grab lunch here! They have another spot in Longniddry too! The one in Prestonpans just had a refurbishment too and it’s fab inside. P.S they also do catering and the afternoon teas are lovely for Mother’s Day, just order ahead!

Ordered an Afternoon Tea for an 80th birthday gift. It was unbelievable, absolutely loads to eat and everything was perfect. The selection of sandwiches were great and pies and sausage rolls very good indeed. Sweet box not being opened until later on, but again looks great. Thank you x

Chilli Chicken pies are amazing!

Friendly staff. Food fresh tasty good value.

Place used to be a gem. Area to order is tiny now and stopped doing breakfast rolls since refurb. Also became overpriced over the past couple years.

These people really know how to fill a roll!

Visited from Australia and highly recommend!! Big shout out to Mark who served us, he is wonderful!

***Update*** This place, once a gold mine of a wide menu choice, quick service and amazing foods has sadly changed its business model. The menu choice including the vast array of hot food has been slashed to provide baguettes and cakes only. Also gone was the online ordering system too. Attempts to posh up have taken the heart out of this once excellent establishment. Sad days for the Pans. A normally great experience busted today by their IT system failing to record an online order despite money being taken and a confirmation email. Turned up and looks of vast confusion and "it must have went to Longniddry" 3 staff later, we still don't know but we can cook it, sadly a little too late for the starving work crew. They also need to sort the queuing system out as they still operate a pasting table at the front door service. Long queues, confusion, frayed tempers and the weather is turning so cold customers waiting in line.

Friendly helpful a great choice of food and decent prices disappointed I can't order online just now but that's ok staff in shop are friendly and get a good chat from them while waiting

The full breakfasts are UNREAL!! 😍🤤 the quality of the food and the size of the portion is just incredible

Been here a couple of times and the food is excellent, very generous with the portion sizes. All the food is fresh , my Dad said it was the best homemade steak pie he's had for a long time. The staff are super nice and friendly as well. Would definitely recommend The Filling Station.

Great food, Best breakfast in prestonpans .

You get what you ask for in here and there's no scrimping with thr portions the bagets are aways busting with fresh cut cold meat and lovely vegetables. They make there own pie and there to die for .it's an all round lovely shop and the atmosphere is good to .the lady's are always asking g how you are and what your up to .💯brilliant

The wife likes coming into the shop she tells me that the prices are good and the food is great

The best breakfast/lunch around.. They also do outside catering.. amazing.. you wouldnt be disappointed

Mango chicken and scone with cream and jam was amazing. The whole family loved the food. Will be back soon.

Good value for your money, the service is very good very happy staff would recommend this take away shop to anyone who ask about it along with family and friends. We'll worth a try.

Always lovely food friendly staff

Looking for a hearty healthy food outlet on a coastal drive, came upon The Filling Station by good fortune and what a find! Fresh quality ingredients, lots of choices, made to order with excellent service, bag and utensils. Two hearty soups and a fulsome baguette all for £11.90 - superb value

This is the place to go if you are hungry. The sandwiches are amazing and so is the ginger cake. 😋

There are lots of great things here, the cakes are lovely as is the roast beef but my chicken and bacon baguette wasn’t. The chicken was coated in a weird batter that was not nice to feel or taste and the bacon wasn’t good either. Sorry but I have to be honest. Longniddry branch is 10x better.

£4.35 for a ham salad roll with cheese. That is outrageous prices will not be back

You delivered a buffet of mixed food to our 30th year birthday for primrose day centre. I'm one of the workers and I just want to thank you for the absolutely beautiful food. The presentation was by far exceeded our expectations and the ribbon was a beautiful touch. Could not fault anything and all the fruit surrounding everything was exceptional we gave our members the choice of fruit as well. I would highly recommend this place if you are having a function.👏👏👏👏

Cracking sandwiches, scones, tray bakes and pies, all fillings and pies made in store.

Amazing food highly recommended

Love this place, I normally get the chicken mayo baguette and a cheese scone, but I bought steak pies for my son last time and he loves them. Great service all very friendly, helpful and kind.

I’ve been a few times and always had great food. The mystic chicken is great and the baguettes are big and filled to the max! I wasn’t hungry come yea time. Friendly staff.

Always our go to for a baguette or filled roll. Both Longniddry and Prestonpans are fab.

3/4 lettuce 1/4 filling. The filling was watery and tasteless except for the sour touch it had

Fab portions, quality and service. Always friendly which makes all the difference. Fab business at both shops. Can not recommend highly enough. Staff are worth their weight in gold

Best sandwich shop in East Lothian. Caters for parties too. Amazing 👏

Its not a garage, you can't fill up, but the baguettes are amazing

A normally great experience busted today by their IT system failing to record an online order despite money being taken and a confirmation email. Turned up and looks of vast confusion and "it must have went to Longniddry" 3 staff later, we still don't know but we can cook it, sadly a little too late for the starving work crew. They also need to sort the queuing system out as they still operate a "pasting table at the front door " service. Long queues, confusion, frayed tempers and the weather is turning so cold customers waiting in line.

Been here a few times. I called my order in this time which was perfect. My breakfast roll was perfectly cooked with a freshly ground cup of coffee. Amazing prices too and staff so friendly and helpful.

Popped in for lunch as my husband had previously been and recommended it. Firstly the staff were extremely helpful and friendly. They recommended chicken mystique in the ladt baked potato which was really tasty. My huxbands cheese and tomstoe toastie was devine. Both had sslad with them which we enjoyed.. The portions were very generous and average price so well worth a visit.

Fantastic takeaway I have to say. We didn't understand how the menu works but the staff there were patient and nice. The food we chose was sort of random but both the wrap and the scone turned out to be FANTASTIC!

Absolutely amazing very good quality for value and delicious

Twice I have had a hamburger here. Not sure if they pre-cook the burgers in the morning or day before or what but they taste terrible and are quite hard and dry. Says a lot when a microwaved Rustlers burger tasted fresher and better! Surely cant be difficult to cook a fresh piece or meat?

Always tasty baguettes and the ordering service is good so you don't have to hang around.

There is a two que system opposite each other... so who comes first? ... the pre-booked orders ... the first in the que orders Who controls the que system? Are we supposed to keep 2m distance and if so how can anyone actually que jump infront of the other when keeping a distance...

Great choice of food but best to order in advance

Food cold £6 food just thrown in a box an roll in another bag 4 breakfasts and very over rated will not use again Gregg's got to resort to your warm food

Great baguettes..lovely service

Food was amazing....great big portions. Would happily drive from west lothian just to get food from here again. :)

Staff polite. Ordered breakfast rolls .sat in my car as at moment cover rules not allowed in premises..(weather terrible)waited waited.waited .went and enquired about my order waiting on egg being cooked well bring it out to you .They did. took order home. Surprises .bacon 2 slices very salty .sliced sausage the same salty haggis egg roll you can see what we think of that .we added sauce . Will I be going back NO. Service good food nothing special in my own home I would have cooked an other egg .as we eat with our eyes it was not appetizing.we bought there toffee apple scone hopefully that will be tasty

Great food guaranteed and nice easy experience in ordering in advance to collect. Chilli chicken pies are a must if you have never been here before 👌👌

Great food, fairly priced. Place is very popular so expect to queue. If you order online, don’t assume the pick-up time to be accurate.

Lots of great lunch food to takeaway (rolls, baguettes, snacks, drinks) All made prepared fresh when you order.

I ordered a baked potato with cheese and beans and I asked for a small amount of cheese as I am aware they do go over the top with cheese! It unfortunately came packed with so much cheese It was spilling over the box, the cheese had ice crystals on top and the beans were so pale and I believe they have perhaps moved onto a cheaper tasteless version of Heinz. I also ordered a aero cake and a caramel shortcake and again they were so hard you could bash someone over the head with the cake and it would be sore, I am wondering if the cakes are not fresh As this has happened a few times now.

Loaded up here with my family while out on a bike ride. Friendly service with lots of attention to detail, food hygiene standards good too.

The staff here are always friendly! Hard working and pleasant. A pleasure to be served by any one in here. Food quality is above and beyond, cannot fault them.

Amazing place to grab lunch - generous portions will keep me coming back. Baking absolutely beautiful as well. You need to give these guys a try. Superb service as well, making the place perfect!

They cater so well for kinda of events, with flavour, style and good value for money. Never been disappointed by portion size either.

We visited for lunch as a couple. Service was great. Arek was very friendly and very attentive, however food was not great. No flavour to fajita calzone and chips very overcooked. My partners’ calzone was meat feast however and he enjoyed it. Would not return again, unfortunately

Such a bad environment!!!! The staff are okay but it’s mainly run by young ones. The younger workers are probably the best out of the bunch and are the ones that make you feel comfortable and are sure you get the best service possible :/ the owner was ditsy and a bit too nice to be real, she treated one of the younger girls like a baby and a younger male ( looked like the chef ) was treated so poorly compared to the others. Food is nice but not worth the price and the boss is ditsy and very self aware. Good food in a very bad environment such a shame ! If there was a 0 star option I would have picked it!

Popped in for filled rolls, excellent choice of fillings, after deciding what we wanted the server put the wrong meat in the roll she took it back out and didnt discard the roll but proceeded to just fill it with the right ingredient, after pointing out cross contamination she didnt answer and carried on. I asked for no tomatoes but what did we get? yes tomatoes. The shop was busy but you are paid to do a job and the food is not cheap, get it right. Lovely food spoiled by server who was unpleasant and unhelpful

Popped in for lunch and asbalways spoilt for choice. Lady recommended wrap with spicy tomato sauce jalapeño and mac and cheese. Doesn't sound the most normal thing to have but hey were Scottish 🤷‍♀️ Oh my days it was AMAZING. Fresh hot tastes amazing and staff are so lovely. Must try people 😋😋😋😋

Direttamente sul Royal Mile, locale grande con parecchi tavoli anche se non ci sono tavoli per grandi compagnie noi eravamo in 8 e siamo stati divisi su dei tavoli vicini chiaramente dopo averci informato, buona scelta di menù con hamburger e fish and chips, propongono menùper bambini, camerieri gentili, prezzo nella media. Possibilità di pagare il conto tramite cellulare su loro sito internet con app. Chiedono sempre prima di ordinare se qualcuno ha intolleranze alimentari.

Great fresh food great service very friendly and welcoming

Pleasant staff and beautiful food. Always easygoing atmosphere even at busiest times

Fantastic place, plenty to offer and plenty of staff busy little place but worth it for the good grub.

Good friendly service, tasty food to take away always fresh made to order at a reasonable price good selection on offer if dont see what you want ask and if possible will get it for you

We use the filling station in Prestonpans for catering for our training sessions, the sandwich fillings are tasty, always fresh with fresh fruit cups on the sides. Never anything left over!

Excellent fresh baked baguettes with egg mayo and tuna mayo topped with fresh vegetables was so amazing. We needed something non fried or greasy. The girls that waited on us were so helpful and friendly.

High end sandwich shop with their own very tasty homebaked pies and sausage rolls

Great food , lots of choice and great staff.

Great food! Excellent choice of fillings and hot plate pastries too. The home baking on offer is a real treat as well!

Amazing! So.cheep you get lots of filling. Service so nice. Cant wait to.go back. Highly recommended. They just need to open more Haha

This restaurant has a great atmosphere and delicious food! Luis provided us with great service and ample entertainment! My brother wanted to try a good Scottish whiskey, and Luis gave a great recommendation of Oban whiskey👍

Never had a bad baguette there, staff are friendly, chatty and always smiling Can't understand these " bad" reviews, must've got mixed up with someplace else Good work ladies, 100% from me

Fantastic Takeaway with great quality food at great prices.

The prestonpans shop is just great what a choice of take away food and roll/baguette fillings the staff must be the chattist! In the "Pans"

Love this place fabulous choice and value for money

Got a Christmas baguette asked for no bacon but bacon was on the baguette. The baguette was that loaded it looked like slop and stuck to the paper the turkey was just pure fat absolutely disgusting what a complete waste of £6.90 as ended up in the bin it was that bad the dog turned her nose up at it

In de middag op de Royal Mile (Highstreet) van Edinburgh gekozen om lunch in dit restaurant te houden. Het was ons in 2017 ook bevallen en ook nu niet teleurgesteld.Enigste minpuntje is de versleten zitting van de banken op de meest gebruikte plek (naast het gangpad).Verder super bediening

Brilliant filled rolls! Bacon and egg doubler recommended!

Bien que bondé en cette période du festival , un bipeur nous est remis a la reception et des qu une table se libère nous sommes prévenus aussitôt .( Attente d environ 20 mn )

Absolutely fabulous wee find! The best food in prestonpans! Staff very friendly they make up whatever you want! Fresh rolls the fillings are truly scrumptious not to mention the fabulous homemade pies

What a lovely little sandwich takeaway! found it on our way down the coast to visit friends. We had the Mexican chicken burgers. Sooooo yummy! They also had homemade steak pies, chilli chicken pies and sausage rolls. They looked amazing so will need to go back for a second visit!

Mmmmmm best steak and onion baguette and chilly sauce also cakes are great especially the truffles can’t beat em mmmm

Caratteristico pub scozzese situato proprio in centro sulla Royal Mile.

My first experience 11.30am asked for tatty, service without spare kindness, potato overbaked. Yes lots of cheese not much underneath. Shame

A cut above your average sandwich shop as witnessed by the lengthy queue some lunchtimes. However, you won't have to wait long as service is highly efficient. There is always an eye-catching window display which changes with the seasons. Look out for the Christmas baguette!

The Filling Station provided the catering for a small intimate wedding in Port Seton and I must say that the standard was excellent. They served afternoon tea to the guests but the best part were the small, hand made pies. Stunning good. In fact I plan on making a special journey to purchase some.

Man i love this place. Travel fi edinburgh every sat just for ma rolls.

Very unfriendly staff when only ordering drinks, we were basically told "you can sit in the corner of your only ordering drinks" Don't bother

Popped in the other day as was feeling a little peckish .

Best mince pie iv had in a long time exellant baguette

My partner and I had lunch in The Filling Station. We went for the lunch menu, I think it was £9.95 for a 2 course meal. You could also add a soft drink for around £2.75 with unlimited refills. For starters I ordered the chicken tenders and my partner ordered the calamari, which were both fine. For mains I ordered the jumbo dog with fries, my partner ordered the meatball calzone. Both main courses were gorgeous but we couldn't finish them, we were both stuffed! Nice food and great value for money :) The Filling Station really does fill you up!