Edinburgh Restaurants

  1. Blue Moon Café

    The Blue Moon is the focus of Broughton St's gay social life - always busy, always friendly, and serving up tasty nachos, salads, sandwiches and baked potatoes. It's famous for its brilliant homemade hamburgers, which come plain or topped with cheese or chilli sauce, and delicious daily specials.

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  2. Caféteria@Thefruitmarket

    After checking out the art in the Fruitmarket Gallery, check out the menu in its stylish café - fresh sandwiches, big crunchy salads and hot ciabatta melts - or settle down with a cappuccino to browse the book you just bought in the adjacent art bookshop.

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  3. Favorit

    A stylish café-bar with a slightly retro feel, Favorit caters for everyone from workers grabbing breakfast on the way to the office to coffee-slurping students skiving off afternoon lectures and late-night clubbers with an attack of the munchies. It also serves the best bacon butties in town.

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  4. Forest Café

    A chilled-out and comfortably scuffed-around-the-edges antidote to squeaky-clean style bars, this volunteer-run, not-for-profit art space and café serves up humongous helpings of hearty vegetarian and vegan fodder, ranging from burritos to falafel burgers.

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  5. Monster Mash

    The sort of place where you half-expect to see Desperate Dan sitting in the corner chowing down on cow pie, this nostalgia-fuelled, comic-book café specialises in bangers and mash with onion gravy, shepherd's pie, fish and chips and deep-fried ice cream. But there's a twist - the food is all top-quality nosh freshly prepared from local produce, including gourmet sausages, mustard-flavoured mash, and red wine and onion gravy.

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