The best restaurants serving Italian food in Colinton / Fairmilehead Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh and Lothian

On cold and very wet December days, this cafe was a great place to warm up. I suspect it would be a great 'slice of Italy' at any time of the year. Excellent hot and tasty panini, homemade scones and hot coffee...very welcome and much needed. Great attentive and friendly staff. We will ready return (and have) to this great cafe. For us, a bonus is that it is nowhere near the city centre.

Bruschetta pleasant base tasting well with the tomatoes gently heated with a careful touch of seasoning to bring up their natural flavour. Calamari lightly cooked, pleasantly al dente and not tough.The seasoned coating was good. It's now rarer to be given "tender" calamari as (in my experience) they have to be good and fresh, then cooked promptly and briefly. But September is a good month and the Forth supports shoals of same, so little excuse other than a chef's casual timing. The ravioli was my second dish but I swapped it with my sister who had ordered a rack of lamb. Though looking well grilled, it was found to be effectivly raw. My bent, is for meat served blue but not raw. Unlike beef, lamb on the bone becomes difficult to cut as any slightly warmed adjoining fat becomes extremely slippy and exceedingly difficult to cut. And eating, without resorting to chewing! makesw a nonsense of "tender" lamb. By ignoring the fat, I still enjoyed it but found the waitress's response as to why it was so little cooked..... unsatisfactory ..... apparently "an In-house" style yet not mentioned on the menu ? So glad the chef doesn't have a preference for raw potatoes ! I'll check next time. regards John Perreur-Lloyd

Party of 4 at 18.30 tp 20 30. On a Friday. Very good service, and excellent food. Friendly staff nice atmosphere.

Definitely the worst and definitely the most expensive chippy in the area. I’d say worst in Edinburgh but Bar B Que exists. I’ve been going for 12 years and the fish, chips and puddings etc are always awful. Pizza’s are pretty good to be fair, but I’m never going back. Balerno Fry is infinitely better. Never get re cooked chips or pale anemic fish in there. Really really bad.