The best restaurants in Edinburgh and Lothian

First of all the people working there are amazing and so friendly! The food tastes like heaven and we can see that it’s homemade with ❤️ My advice is that you should make sure that you don’t miss it when around!

Great food and more importantly beer, served by very funny and polite servers Justyna and Nathan where both great and made a brilliant experience for everyone.

Chaskaa is my number 1 curry take away service. Like most Indian curry lovers, I have tasted many curries throughout Edinburgh and Chaskaa Punjabi Murgh - one of their specials is the best I have ever had and will continue to have. Their Chicken Pakoras are the best we have ever had, just as the onion bhajis were delightful. I have recommended this place to work collogues who have visited the restaurant to eat in and loved my recommendation: Karahi, Punjabi Murgh, both dishes they loved. I have been in the restaurant to collect my order and the staff are the best, I mean really could not get nicer people, very friendly and who take the honour of serving you, the same goes for the delivery person , we have seen a few different drivers and every single one of them makes you feel like 5 star service, the food, the packaging, the staff, everything is perfect. I would recommend. Just an FYI, you get money back on each order, its like a points loyalty system, on average we get £2 on each order back into our chaskaa account, it feels great after a few orders you end up with a free curry or even a free meal.

had previously given a good review as when we'd been before it was lovely but our last visit was disappointing. there was only a few people in and our food took forever even though we only ordered 2 pizzas and a garlic bread. the bread took so long we ended up asking for it to go.. eventually after an hour after finishing the pizza we had to leave as our parking was expiring.. we realised the garlic bread was sitting on the counter in a takeaway box but nobody had given it to us. wonder how long it sat there! proper weird a shame as pizzas used to be great but this time, it wasn't worth it at all :(

We chanced on this beautiful cafe and we were so glad we did. The salmon croissant with goat cheese was the best ever! And so was the quiche ... I am here for a few days but would definitely like to come here once before I leave.

Superb lunch at La Potiniere. We are just home after being so well looked after with the most delicious food. I've recently been diagnosed as in tolerant to lactose and it makes eating out more difficult but not in this restaurant you are just catered for and given the most tasty well balanced dishes. It is a small intimate restaurant but welcoming and elegant. I can't praise it enough.

Tomamos cafés, helados y lemon cake. Todo muy rico y en un ambiente muy agradable y acogedor. Súper recomendable en la zona de Cannongate

Phenomal food, burgers are top teir, great selection of salads and sauce. Service was great as well very polite and welcoming, Lynne even gave me free haggis on the burger which was unreal. Will be there every time I pass the retail park

Tasted the Moist chocolate cake. It was really delicious not too sweet. It was just perfect 👌.

Great atmosphere, enjoyed the full Scottish breakfast and the pancakes, very friendly staff with humor and great music! Very cozy and easy-going place, will definitely come back.

Warm welcome and fabulous information given with presentation display of all steaks. Steaks cooked beautifully and a big thanks to our waiter Juha. All in all, an excellent meal in a lovely restaurant with friendly staff. Highly recommended, and will certainly visit again.

Food was phenomenal and very well priced. the steak was the best one I have had in a long time, I will definitely be coming back when I’m in the area. Staff are very friendly and helpful,I simply do not have any faults.

We had a lovely meal and experience in the restaurant today. The food was all cooked fresh and to order. The owner took time to share some cooking tips but unfortunately he wouldn't share his secret ingredients haha. Great traditional Italian restaurant which was a pleasure to dine in.

Gorgeous food and fabulous service by the lovely Lily (and the great barman with the fab beard whose name we did not get - sorry .!). Thank you for a wonderful evening - we will be back x

Instagram photos don’t always tell the truth. While service and wine were very good, the food was a big disappointment. Look very pretty on the plate (for instagram) but none of the dishes were memorable or flavourful.