The best restaurants in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh and Lothian

Enjoyable lunch, lovely waitress (Tilly, I think). Asked where we would like to sit but I replied that she probably knows best.....at which point she showed us to a lovely quiet table. Look it's Pizza Express, Edinburgh - a UK pizza chain rather than some pizzeria on the shore of Lake Como, Italy. We use this Queensferry Road branch because it's consistently good. Thanks to the team.

Our first stop in Edinburgh was the elephant cafe . Upon arrival at the cafe we were totally surprised that it is opened and that there was no queue . Waited excitedly to be seated and a young lady ushered us to a lovely window seats overlooking the street. Just as we were getting ourselves comfortable, another lady by the name Samiha came by and questioned “who gave you the table “ Honestly we were quite taken aback. Being a well travelled person of my age this was totally not acceptable and plain rude. The second episode was when I went to the cashier to ask if I should order at the counter , the same staff exaggeratedly commented in Spanish (I think) that I was impatient. The episode didn’t end here. Later the same lady, Samiha, found out that I was trying to get her name. She came back and challenged me lecturing me throughout that cafe is very “crowded” ; customers need to wait to be seated. The whole issue is we were ushered to the seats by the window! We did not just barged in! Honestly this kind of behaviour is totally not acceptable . To my worst horror i later found out she is the supervisor of the cafe ! A junior staff who had witnessed all this and was so sweet that she apologised profusely on behalf of the rude supervisor for my bad experience! Fine cafe but be warned of ill mannered supervisor !

Madhan served us tonight. His way with customers was amazing and his talent and humour leaves us speechless. He met our needs and kept us so happy and entertained. We love you

delivery guy was rude so will not be using again

Great location, nice room and good value for money compared to others in surrounding areas. My partner did accumulate a few small bites in the night from the bed (possibly bugs) and construction work outside was a nice wake up call but none the less the hotel was nice so I’d stay here again. On another day neither of the 2 negatives might occur.

Very questionable. I'll never go there again.

Good pastry We had the scones and they were delicious On the other hand, the service leaves something to be desired. In fact when you come home it’s hello, what do you want? You don't have time to think, it has to go quickly, the staff is rushing you. I advise you to eat there so you can sit down and have more time to read the menu than to take away.

Poor customer service. Didn't have what we wanted. Staff spoke very poor English so struggled to communicate this and worse treated us like an inconvenience. I'm sure on a different day they'd be fine but on this day it was not good.

Jakub was fantastic server looks after us all night best server ever

Went to pizzahut around 1345 on Friday, only around 30 to 40 percent of the tables were occupied but been told they are fully booked. Don't think it's a big party booking as people's seating scattered the restaurant evenly. The restaurant either don't want us to eat there at all or the management was so inefficient. One of the kids really wanted pizzahut so we ordered takeaway. No one with booking walked in during our 20min wait. We just have to wait at the entrance looking at all these empty tables. I have never been told a restaurant is fully booked when there were so many empty tables. At the end the pizza wasn't even as good as the free one from Tenpin...

2 hairs found in my kebab, wear a hair net ya munters. £15 for kebab and chips and hairs

Pretty consistently the worst McDonald's franchise in Scotland

Didn't have a reservation but they fit us in and were very gracious. We had an excellent meal. My super picky husband loved the steak pie. I had salmon which was perfect. The Sticky Toffee Pudding was the best I have ever had (even better than my homemade to be honest!). We had a very nice meal there.

Newly renovated but maintains cosy feel. Good pub grub. Definitely recommend

This drawing made me feel like I was back home in a second