Lothian Restaurant Guide

Cafe de Havilland Restaurant

• Address: Hilton Edinburgh Airport, Edinburgh International Airport, Edinburgh, EH28 8LL (Map)
• Cuisine(s): International
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: N/A

Cafe Hub, The

An important part of the Edinburgh Festival Centre, the Hub goes on all the year, and that includes the excellent café/restaurant which must be offering some of the best value in Edinburgh, coupled with real quality.

• Address: Castlehill, Edinburgh, EH1 2NE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): International, Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £18.00

Cafe Rouge - Edinburgh

Café Rouge has around one hundred branches throughout Britain all offering a wide range of dishes drawn from the French cuisine. Slightly less than half their branches are in or close to London. Almost inevitably the décor and design of each restaurant differs from the others, but there is a general curtsy towards La France.

• Address: 43 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1EP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): French
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £26.00

Cafe Royal Circle Bar

This historic institution is a wonderful place in which to regain your equilibrium after having had your first glimpse of the new Scottish Parliament building. Founded as a bar and restaurant in 1817 it moved to its present premises in the heyday of Victorian building and, having survived WW2 had a narrow escape later when Woolworths sought the site.

• Address: 19 West Register Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2AA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £45.00

Cafe St. Honore

Discreetly tucked away in one of the New Town's secretive little alleys, Le Café has been described as 'Edinburgh on a plate'. This gastronomic tribute to the ancient entente cordiale as applied to Scotland is entirely merited for here the best of Scottish and French cooking blend to ensure a steady stream of enthusiasts, not to say connoisseurs, beating a path to the doors of Le Café.

• Address: 34 North West Thistle Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH2 1EA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, Modern
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £27.00, Dinner: £45.00

Calistoga Central

• Address: 70 Rose Street, Lane North, Edinburgh, EH2 3DX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Fusion, Californian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £32.00

Calistoga Southside

Featured Restaurant

Calistoga is Edinburgh's only restaurant specialising in Californian cuisine, a style that should not under any circumstances be confused with American. Instead Gordon Minnis, the owner, describes it perfectly as "light, fresh and healthy".

• Address: 91-93 St Leonards Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9QY (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Fusion, Californian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £30.00

Celadon Thai Restaurant

• Address: 49-51 Causewayside, Edinburgh, EH9 1QF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Thai
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £12.00, Dinner: £26.00

Cellar Bar & Brasserie, The

• Address: Melville Castle Hotel, Melville Gate, Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh, EH18 1AP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £22.00, Dinner: £32.00

Centotre

It might be tempting to think that there already enough Italian restaurants in Edinburgh, but Centotre is one with a difference, invoking as it does the New York influence. Set in the grandiose surroundings of a former bank on George Street it is run by Victor Contini and his wife Carina, who have broken away from the family base of Valvona and Crolla, still run by Philip and Mary Contini.

• Address: 103 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3ES (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Italian
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £38.00