Café Marlayne

Café Marlayne French Restaurants Edinburgh. French food bistros at Antigua Street and Thistle Street. Vegetarian options. Open 7 days.

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Cafe Marlayne is a lovely French restaurant in the New Town.

There is a large semi-formal dining area to the rear of the premises, and a delightfully relaxed cafe nearer the front with comfy sofas and... Read More Cafe Marlayne is a lovely French restaurant in the New Town.

There is a large semi-formal dining area to the rear of the premises, and a delightfully relaxed cafe nearer the front with comfy sofas and a plethora of cushions.

The restaurant serves a wide array of classic French bistro dishes, such as the wonderful crock monsieur and an array of tempting soups, terrines and roasts.

You can also enjoy delicious freshly roasted coffee and a wide range of teas and fruit juices, or sample one of the treats in their rather good wine menu.

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Gemma Harris paid a visit If you’re familiar with Café Marlayne’s cosy Thistle Street restaurant, the barn-like proportions of their latest venture on Antigua Street may come as a surprise.

They’re opening for full Scottish breakfast and salmon and eggs from 9am to midday, and selling sandwiches, cakes and coffees from a small café at the front.

The menu is pretty much a carbon copy of Thistle Street’s and remains good value.

A trad French bistro that wants to be a hip, loft-style café … if it’s trying to be all things to all people it’s understandable in its early days.

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It is the time of year I drag my children around the people-packed streets in search of free Fringe delights before one of us starts wailing that it’s too busy/cold/wet to go one performance artist further – usually me.

I point my daughters in the direction of what I hope will be the star of the show, Café Marlayne, the Antigua Street restaurant (there is a smaller sister restaurant on Thistle Street) that offers French bistro-style food, as well as a simple, keenly priced, children’s menu.

Gressingham duck breast served with burnt apple compote, streaky bacon, sweet potato fondant and maple syrup jus (£13.70) is Mum’s choice for a main.

Dessert is included as part of the children’s menu and this turns out to be a smaller portion of the regular desserts named on the blackboard, so the girls plump for chocolate brownie, which is gluten free, and chocolate fudge cake.

The adults have also been eyeing the blackboard only to be told that, because the Festival started the day before, the restaurant has been particularly busy and there hasn’t been time to replenish the usual homemade desserts.

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An all-day affair, this café bistro starts serving breakfast from 8am, with lunch and then dinner served until late If you hadn’t guessed by the ruddy great Eiffel Tower adorning the wall of the café space, there’s a French influence at large here – though the flaky brekkie croissants and pains au chocolat are as popular as the traditional breakfast fry-up or black pudding butty.

It’s the menu du jour though, available at lunch and dinner, that offers the tastiest scran, and best reason to loiter here.

Fans of a cheese board can rejoice, too: it’s an almost exclusively French affair.

The large restaurant area is more formal looking than the café sofa and comfy chair space out front, but there’s still a very relaxed vibe here, from both waiting staff and punters.

The green flowery wallpaper, high ceilings and mishmash of art (including a nice John Bellany) on the walls proving as lively as the loud chatter going on at the tables around you.