La Partenope offers Neopolitan cuisine to the residents of Edinburgh at modest prices in a friendly atmosphere. Smiling staff welcome you to the restaurant and the seamless service continues through your meal.

Begin with fresh, charcoal grilled scallops served in a pool of pureed cannellini beans and rocket leaves, or fag-ash fran, eggs poached in cherry tomato sauce, baked in the oven with two types of cheese. For mains, try the lobster cooked in white wine, garlic, chilli and served with long pasta tubes, and tuna steak with pine nuts, raisins, garlic, orange and capers. To pamper your sweet tooth you could feast on the cherry cake topped with butter cream, and filled with dark liquor-laced cherries.

For the nine-to-fivers this place offers a venue for late meetings with its assortment of nibbles and house wine. However, after a while it could prove to be tempting to stay on for dinner.