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Had a lovely meal, very relaxed atmosphere and the team were friendly. The food was lovely and well presented. Would visit again when in Edinburgh.

Just the dessert I'm looking for 😋😋 buneo white chocolate waffle is to die for Had an amazing time at kaspas!!! Cheers .

Working in customer service myself I completely understand how stressful it can be and how hard servers work. However, my experience today was pretty unnecessary. Went into the cafe today to treat my mum to a birthday brunch. We found an empty seat with some dirty coffee mugs on it and decide to move them to another table (pretty common practice) so we could sit down. We were not being rude and had no bad intentions when doing this. One of the workers then loudly shouted at us, twice, in front of the whole cafe to not do that as we will make the other table dirty, in a really aggressive manner. We were both a bit startled and unsure of what to do at that point considering we had clearly annoyed the server so much. She stormed over and proceeded to aggressively wipe down our table, hitting my mum with the cloth whilst she did so... To be treated like that after not actually doing anything particularly wrong, is pretty poor. I understand customers can be difficult, but i would suggest not taking your bad mood out on ones that haven't done anything. It is appalling customer service and to hit someone with a cloth is even more strange. I would suggest taking your money elsewhere, where the staff won't hate you.

Lo visité anoche con mi esposa y algunos amigos antes de ir a un concierto en el Usher Hall. La gama de cervezas que se ofrecen era genial y disfruté probando un par de cervezas que no había tomado antes. La comida era buena, al igual que el servicio, aunque sentí que las porciones eran un poco en el lado pequeño.

Great halal scottish food and a fantastic view of Edinburgh castle.

Good drinks but terribly chaotic and slow service. Second time here this year and the service is disorganised. Too many people with little co-ordination.

Great food, atmosphere and good prices, lost my wallet bouncer handed it in got it back, was impressed by that offered guy few quid to get a drink, he refused said was his job. One happy customer 2nd visit here will be back

Very good place to eat good steak to share. It's was very good and the service by Nikole was very good. Will come back.

My first visit to Pepe’s was nothing short of disgraceful. From the moment I walked in, I felt judged, disrespected, and completely unwelcome. The man at the counter stared at me suspiciously, which immediately made me feel uncomfortable. I clearly told the woman at the till that I wanted to sit in, yet my food was shoved into takeaway bags without any cutlery. I had to ask for forks, and even then, I was met with a rude attitude and zero professionalism. When I asked for a box to put my chips in, I was spoken to as if I was being difficult — I had to explain myself more than once just to be understood. The overall behaviour from staff was appalling. Workers in the back were laughing and glancing at me and my friend for no reason at all — it felt humiliating. The woman at the till even laughed in my face when I politely asked for a fork. I’ve never been treated with such disrespect at any food establishment. This experience was beyond disappointing — it was outright insulting. For a first-time customer, this was a shocking display of poor service, unprofessional conduct, and a complete lack of basic respect. I won’t be returning, and I strongly advise others to think twice before spending their money here.

Big thanks to Ewan for being amazing and very helpful with our order! The chicken Wings were amazing!

Unfortunately it was the beer house last shift before it closes for refurbishment

Closed for holidays, no info online. Zero respect for customers.

Where do I start? I booked a table for 8pm on 15th December 2024 for my family and I. Upon arrival we were shown to our table and told someone would be with us shortly. The restaurant was relatively quiet at this point. After 15 minutes of staff ignoring us a young staff member who’s personal hygiene was questionable approached us and asked if we would like some thing to drink. We all ordered soft drinks. At this time we asked to be moved tables as we felt quite cramped in the area we were in. I didn’t think this would be an issue as the restaurant was quiet. I was told there were no other tables available. A short time later the staff member arrived and put down 5 bottles of coke and 7up. At this time we realised there was a slug on one of the bottles. The staff member apologised and removed the slug but left us with the bottles. He did not supply glasses so I assume he expected My wife to drink out of the bottle that the slug had just been attached to. I then informed another member of staff of this who told the original staff member to supply glasses. He did this but offered no apology and offered no ice for the drinks. The next issue - I approached the food service area and ordered my selection of food. I noted that there were hardly any selection of vegetables or potatoes. I also noted that the service area was filthy with food that had clearly spilled over and had been sat there for some time. I then had the unfortunate experience of approaching the gravy counter. Again this was filthy (photo attached). I then realised that we hadn’t even been supplied cutlery. Once sat down to begin my meal, after I had to approach the bar staff as there was not any waiting staff to be seen to collect cutlery I looked around me and noted that the walls were covered in stains and had clearly not been cleaned in a long time. (Photo attached). I then looked up to see that the ceiling was mouldy. (Another photo attached). We were then pretty much ignored again by staff and were not approached until we asked for the bill. We then had the pleasure of paying over £92 for this experience. This experience has quite possibly been the worst experience I have ever had at any restaurant I have ever been too. My wife holds a food hygiene certificate due to her line of work and noted that staff overalls were dirty, staff were behind the serving counter, not wearing protective equipment with their hair not covered. I think I would have preferred to have eaten at Fawlty Towers.

Visitó para el té de la tarde y se vio abrumado con la selección de comida por el precio. Los sándwiches de pan no blando obviamente habían sentado demasiada mantequilla. Rollo de salchicha y pudín Yorkshire delicioso. Pasteles nada que escribir a casa sobre bollos no calientes y sin mantequilla. Servicio bien, pero no excepcional. ¿Volvería probablemente no

Best fries I've ever had! great service, friendly, fairly priced Have been there many time during the year. never disappointed.