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Best Breakfast and Brunch in Edinburgh | The List
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Taken from the 2016/17 The List Eating & Drinking Guide – £5.95 (plus p&p) The Bluebird Café 5 Canonmills, Inverleith, EH3 5HA Friendly, pocket-sized neighbourhood cafe serving up coffee and pancakes, pulled pork and meatloaf to an Americana | read our review of The Bluebird Café The Blue Bear 9 Brandon Terrace, New Town, EH3 5EA Superlative café serving up the best in brunch and much more.
co.uk | read our review of Loudon's Café & Bakery Maxi's 33 Raeburn Place, Stockbridge, EH4 1HX A local café in the heart of Stockbridge cooking good quality Scottish produce, and doing it well.
maxiesbistro.com | read our review of Maxi's Montpeliers of Bruntsfield 159 – 161 Bruntsfield Place, Southside, EH10 4DG Contemporary-styled bar and bistro at the heart of its neighbourhood, with lots to shout about from early until | read our review of Montpeliers of Bruntsfield Nobles Café, Bar & Restaurant 44a Constitution Street, Leith, Leith, EH6 6RS One of Leith's best looking pubs, serving good food and full of old-world charm.
noblesbarleith.co.uk | read our review of Nobles The Scottish Café and Restaurant National Gallery of Scotland, The Mound, New Town, EH2 2EL Scottish ingredients showcased with the Contini empire's expected class at this impressive gallery | read our review of The Scottish Café and Restaurant Valvona & Crolla Caffè Bar 19 Elm Row, Leith Walk, New Town, EH7 4AA This pillar of Edinburgh's food establishment turns the finest fresh ingredients into a deliciously broad menu of bold Italian flavours.
valvonacrolla.co.uk | read our review of Valvona & Crolla Caffè Bar Wild Wood Café 146 Marchmont Road, Southside, EH9 1AQ Marchmont café newcomer whose bright, fresh interior showcases a strong breakfast and brunch menu and appealing dinner offer.
Best pubs and bars in Canonmills and Broughton | The List
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From forever alt-hip Broughton Street with its buzzy bars packing in the pre-club party crowd, the pub (and wine bar) options continue down the hill with an increasing choice of mellow locals perfect for brunch, a pint and the papers in on-the-up Canonmills and Broughton.
The Basement Bar & Restaurant 10–12A Broughton Street, EH1 3RH It's been around for a generation (at least), which definitely means the Basement qualifies as an icon in Edinburgh's fast-moving bar scene.
co.uk | read our review of The Basement Bar & Restaurant Brandon's of Canonmills 1 Canonmills, EH3 5HA A versatile and dynamic destination local, with wide-ranging and well-prepared food, beer and | read our review of Brandon's of Canonmills The Empress of Broughton Street 25 Broughton Street, EH1 3JU New bar at the top of Broughton Street, serving quality cocktails, craft beers and flatbreads for sharing.
| read our review of The Empress of Broughton Street Rollo 14 Broughton Street, EH1 3RH This recent arrival to Broughton Street is part wine bar, part bistro, and all good times.
| read our review of Rollo The Street 2 Picardy Place, EH1 3JT Welcoming pub with a friendly buzz, outdoor seating, late food and a weekend basement | read our review of The Street Treacle Bar and Kitchen 39–41 Broughton Street, EH1 3JU Forward-thinking bar aimed at a younger audience, with a pre-club feel and a strong range of Asian-inspired food | read our review of Treacle Bar and Kitchen
Brandon's of Canonmills (1 Canonmills, Edinburgh) | The List
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One of the most impressively all-purpose pubs in Edinburgh, serving brunch, lunch, dinner, wine, cocktails and rotating craft beer casks.
Taken over in early 2016 by the owners of Redmond’s of Dennistoun in Glasgow, this bright but slightly out-of-the-way local bar has evolved into one of the most impressively all-purpose pubs in Edinburgh.
Brunch is served at weekends from 10am to 4.30pm and takes in everything from Balearic poached eggs with sobrassada to salt beef hash with potato, poached egg and sriracha sauce.
To lunch – short rib burger and fries; a light miso broth with mushroom, pak choi and poached egg; or fluffy bao buns with a range of fillings, including Puddledub pork belly or seasoned halloumi cheese.
Excellent teas, coffees, wines, cocktails and rotating beer casks mean this is a bar worth making your local, wherever you live.
Kayt Turner, Author at Scotsman Food and Drink
Brandon's of Canonmills, Edinburgh, restaurant - Scotsman Food ...
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This place is a good case in point.
They were pleasantly light, squishy and savoury inside – though we couldn’t taste any cheese at all – and came with a smudge of smoky harissa mayo and a salad of avocado slivers, tomato cubes, cress, beetroot and grated carrot.
Same goes for our Bigger Plate of short rib burger (£12.50), which was a hefty and fat two-inch thick patty, done to medium, with a good beefy charred flavour, packed into a sesame bun (nice, since I’m a bit bored of brioche).
It came with some Elastoplast-sized strips of well-fired streaky bacon, tomato, a good caramelised onion paste and an enamel cup of decent skinny fries on the side.
There’s a choice of three slightly uninspiringly ubiquitous puddings, but we did like the salted caramel brownie (£6) – a good example of its kind, with that pleasant texture of wet compacted earth, a dollop of vanilla ice-cream on the top and some raspberry coulis puddled around.
Travel: Edinburgh Food Safari Superbreak | Foodie Explorers
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We recently embarked on our first Super Break trip which included a food safari walking food tour during a two-night stay in Edinburgh with a choice of hotels.
A food safari is a walking food tour led by Nell Nelson, the Edinburgh-born food writer, cookbook author and TV presenter whom you may have seen on The woman who ate Scotland.
Each tour starts at 1pm and lasts for 3 hours covering at least 6 eating and drinking stops but if the thought of walking doesn’t appeal to you then don’t fret as there is more eating than walking as this tour is limited to Broughton Street, and just off it, in Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town (the tour may change depending on time, business opening hours etc.).
Keep walking down Broughton Street until it becomes Rodney Street and you’ll find our third stop, an independently-owned bar and restaurant in the Canonmills area for a selection of Scottish cheeses with quince paste.
Food Safari tours run Wednesday – Saturday and the meeting point will be either The Bearded Baker, 46 Rodney St, Edinburgh or the Barony Bar, 81-85 Broughton St, Edinburgh.