The best restaurants serving British food in Inverleith Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh and Lothian

The food is good here and it is a reliable local spot for brunch/lunch. Just visited but complained when we were served our smoothies in small, part-ful takeaway cups instead of a brimful large glass as usual. Both staff shrugged and one said "it's been like that for a year", while the other "we've lost a lot of glasses and that's how the boss serves it now". I get it, times are tough for small businesses but making the portions smaller and denying it is a bad look.

This was our last meal in Scotland on a week's holiday, and, I have to say, that we have eaten very well. Still, I think we saved the best for last. I have read some of the not so glowing reviews here, and I am sure that they are honest. All restaurants have off nights and some clients do not like the way the food is prepared. All I can say is that we were five adult family members and our experience was brilliant. The young staff were friendly yet professional. My starter, a special that day, was a chicken liver parfait. I will honestly say that it was one of the best things that I have ever eaten. The cod enteree also received rave reviews. One fellow diner was not so happy with the fish pie, which turned out to have hard-cooked eggs, that were not welcome. Otherwise, everyone enjoyed their food. Desserts were also very good.

Chaos since table-service disappeared, and massively over-priced. Notices boast of sandwich ingredients grown in the garden, yet the very ordinary sandwiches cost £8.50 each. A simple dish of hummus - a laughable £12.50. The queue bottle-necks from the start at the cold-counter with no visibility of the hot-counter. There is a curious gap between the hot counter and coffee/cakes counter, where customers struggle to balance trays of food, or watch others rightly skip the queue via the gap because they only want coffee/cakes. The toilets are airless, disgusting and too limited for the number of diners.