Susie's Wholefood Diner Restaurants in Edinburgh - Lonely Planet Travel Information

Address
51-53 W Nicolson St, South Edinburgh
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Phone
667 8729
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Susie's is a down-to-earth self-service vegetarian cafeteria with scrubbed wooden tables, rickety chairs and a friendly atmosphere. The menu changes daily but includes things such as tofu, stuffed roast tomatoes, cashew pie and Susie's famous falafel plates. BYOB, or try a bottle of organic wine.

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This is the best Sushi restaurant in Edinburgh, to be fair it is not exactly overwhelmed with competition challenging for the crown but even with a little more competition in the marketplace it would take some beating. The surroundings are small without being cramped, I had heard a lot about the general atmosphere of Sushiya though on the evening we went there was neither any of the promised Japanese videos or pop music over the stereo, slightly dissapointing. We opted for a Sashimi and Nigri platter to share for starter, which was a great start, all fresh, good for fish v rice and plentiful for the price we paid for it. I accompanied this with a mug of green tea, which was rather large but little more than tepid, which soon turned to cold before the starter was out. For main I opted for the eel which was fantastically cooked, boneless and coated in a bbq sauce which was very tasty without overpowering the fish in any way, perfect. My dining partner had Ramen with chicken, the chicken was fairly average but the soup and noodles with it were very very very tasty and the whole dish was very plentiful and even with me helping we were unable to finish it off. Add in 2 beers and we only just squeaked over ÃÂ£30 for the 2 of us, which is excellent value. Definitely one to go back to.

The feel of this place is nice, lots of people coming and going, sitting together to eat, it felt like there was a nice community spirit about it however I can't help but feel that it makes its money from the feel of the place as opposed to the food offering. Quality was nothing short of ok, I certainly wouldn't choose it over anything else I have had in town, or stuff I could cook myself, in fact given the choice I would much rather visit one of the many food shops in the vicinity and knock myself up a sandwich for a couple of quid than spend 3 times that on something that tastes little better. Myself I had the Falafel plate which consisted of 2 salads of my choosing- one of which was a grated carrot offering and the other a bog standard pasta salad. Accompanied by a paltry 3 Falafel which again were ok but hardly packed a punch in terms of flavour. Accompanying humous good but could have been more garlicky, Tzatziki pretty horrible. Value was good at ÃÆÃ¢â¬Å¡ÃâÃÂ£7 for a decent sized portion meal but I can't say it was utterly astounding. Probably a good place to go if you buy into what the place clearly believes in but not somewhere to go in search of great food.