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A really friendly bar, with lovely atmosphere. Cosy bar, great gin choices and was made to feel very welcome (and very fog friendly) 👍

If you want to spend minimum 20 quid at the bar on card and get ripped off another 8 quid on your card for a 40 quid dance then this is your place. Ripoff.

Had been looking forward to visiting this restaurant for months after hearing great things but what a disappointment it was. Sat in what can only be described as the worst table we’ve ever had in a restaurant. My wife sat with a wall to her side and myself with the staff till to my side so constantly having a member of staff standing right beside me - it was like having a third member for dinner. We asked to move but unfortunately restaurant was full - this was despite there being some empty tables the full time we were in. This should not be a table in such an establishment and find it amazing that they have it as an option. We can’t complain about the food, it was delicious so credit where it’s due to the kitchen team. Overly priced? Yes. But you pay for location and reputation. Come time to pay I showed my voucher to which the team member grabbed my phone and through the bill on the table and disappeared with my phone for a few minutes. Very strange service. Overall, a massively disappointing experience. Average service, great food but the worst seats you’ll come across means we won’t return and unfortunately haven’t recommended to friends/family.

No bad place food was good although running off another menu could do with more chips when ordering the fishcakes not to expensive would go back again

service and food as always 100%

they have changed the crispy shredded chilli beef recipe which used to be good but now it's not very nice.

Usually pretty quiet, they serve beaverton neck oil on tap so it's worth a call In.

I ordered a panini and coffee. The panini was badly packaged and fell out of the bag, which wasn’t really big enough for it. On bending down to pick it up, I spilt half of my ‘milk on the side’. As the queue was very long I didn’t bother to go back and complain, just ate the sandwich, hoping it hadn’t acquired any nasty microbes from the floor. It was quieter by the time I left so I spoke to a member of staff – I think her name was Debbie. She handled things magnificently, like a seasoned diplomat – apologised charmingly, said she would pass on the details of my complaint to make sure this kind of thing didn’t happen again, and gave me a free coffee and a cinnamon bun – although I hadn’t asked for anything. Thank you, Debbie.

Their kebabs are swimming in grease.

I love the food here, the prices are a bit expensive however it’s definitely worth it as a treat in my opinion. I love the chicken skewers, the rice and curry sauce, the chicken chow mein was also pretty good. The staff are okay, not overly friendly which i enjoy I’m not too keen on waiters putting on a full performance to possibly get a tip, staff in here just do their jobs, love that. Overall it’s a pretty casual atmosphere with options to sit in or takeaway, or for delivery. However it is closed Monday and Tuesday, but open every other day from 5-10pm however 9pm cut off time for sitting in. Street parking is available however it may be difficult during busier/tourist periods. Pets not welcome.

So I went in to order a pizza, already lovely fellas, unfortunately due to reason out of their control, my pizza was missing, however they were very sorry and immediately made me a new one in about 6-7 minutes with an extra set of cookies for free Super friendly staff, probably deserve a raise I bet because they were very obviously incredible at their job Very happy with my pizza and cookies too

Pepperoni pizza last night, gave me the shits all day today, I will not be back...

Good food for good prices, it's a little shop so not much sitting area and seat are high but still nice ( previous owners) (New owners) So it's been around 8 months since the new owners have taken over and I thought they would improve things since they run the ones in Leith. No it's worse. The staff have no clue how to make the correct order. Mistakes every time. Won't be going back, I'll just go to the gyle subway, the standards there have increased. No wonder why it's always dead when you go here.

Minerva never disappoints us. Ordered so many times in Howden, now in craigshill and still best service. Best food to take away. I won’t change you ever . The chef is lovely and always aprochable. Keep the good work guys!

Need to order and pay online. Whilst this is not ideal for some..the staff are available to help.