Guidebook for Edinburgh

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Guidebook for Edinburgh

Arts & Culture

Beautiful cinema that shows many independent and art house films and documentaries, with a great bar. Try to see films in Screen 1 - stunning!
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Cameo Picturehouse
38 Home St
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Beautiful cinema that shows many independent and art house films and documentaries, with a great bar. Try to see films in Screen 1 - stunning!
Arts venue for art, film and music with a cool bar, cafe and its own beer and gin breweries. Many artists and musicians have studios here so there is often something interesting happening.
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Summerhall
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Arts venue for art, film and music with a cool bar, cafe and its own beer and gin breweries. Many artists and musicians have studios here so there is often something interesting happening.
Great art house cinema with cafe/bar. Always something interesting screening.
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Filmhouse
88 Lothian Rd
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Great art house cinema with cafe/bar. Always something interesting screening.
Beautiful old theatre usually focusing on the classics.
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The Lyceum
30b Grindlay St
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Beautiful old theatre usually focusing on the classics.
Modern theatre with bar, for cutting edge contemporary work
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Traverse Theatre
10 Cambridge St
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Modern theatre with bar, for cutting edge contemporary work
Concert hall mostly for classical work but also for bands
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Usher Hall
Lothian Road
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Concert hall mostly for classical work but also for bands
Mainstream cinema showing the best of Hollywood
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ODEON Edinburgh Lothian Rd
118 Lothian Rd
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Mainstream cinema showing the best of Hollywood

Drinks & Nightlife

Great pub with open fire, no music and good food and local ales. Gets very busy in the evenings!
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Cloisters Bar
26 Brougham St
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Great pub with open fire, no music and good food and local ales. Gets very busy in the evenings!
Sweet bar with good beer
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The Ventoux
2 Brougham St
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Sweet bar with good beer
Can hire golf clubs and balls here for playing on the free links
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The Golf Tavern
30 - 31 Wright's Houses
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Can hire golf clubs and balls here for playing on the free links
Very local and sweet pub where most people know each other but are friendly towards anyone who enters. Cheap.
Burlington Bertie
11-13 Tarvit Street
Very local and sweet pub where most people know each other but are friendly towards anyone who enters. Cheap.
Really nice traditional, friendly pub
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Blue Blazer
2 Spittal St
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Really nice traditional, friendly pub
Restaurant and bar. Famous for its mussels and beautiful traditional design. Cheaper food in the bar than the restaurant but you can't book tables and gets very busy.
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Cafe Royal
19 W Register St
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Restaurant and bar. Famous for its mussels and beautiful traditional design. Cheaper food in the bar than the restaurant but you can't book tables and gets very busy.

Essentials

Organic, vegan, whole food shop with good muesli.
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Real Foods
37 Broughton St
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Organic, vegan, whole food shop with good muesli.
Fishmonger's, one of the best in Edinburgh. Always very fresh and the owners walk around in yellow wellies
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Eddie's Seafood Market
7 Roseneath St
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Fishmonger's, one of the best in Edinburgh. Always very fresh and the owners walk around in yellow wellies

Everything Else

Beautiful small Victorian swimming pool with glass roof and sauna and gym. Open to all. Check swim times on their website before going.
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Warrender Swim Centre
55 Thirlestane Rd
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Beautiful small Victorian swimming pool with glass roof and sauna and gym. Open to all. Check swim times on their website before going.
Public tennis courts, free during low season. Can borrow racquets there during high season.
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Meadows Tennis Courts
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Public tennis courts, free during low season. Can borrow racquets there during high season.
Meant to be the best fish and chips place in Edinburgh. They have a sister takeaway in Newington but it is always closed when I try to go so have never tried it.
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Tailend
14-15 Albert Place
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Meant to be the best fish and chips place in Edinburgh. They have a sister takeaway in Newington but it is always closed when I try to go so have never tried it.

Food Scene

Often cited as one of Edinburgh's best restaurants, it's all about locally sourced or foraged ingredients. Expensive but well worth it.
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TIMBERYARD
10 Lady Lawson St
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Often cited as one of Edinburgh's best restaurants, it's all about locally sourced or foraged ingredients. Expensive but well worth it.
Bright and modern Swedish cafe with fresh bread and light bites. Not cheap but very nice
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Söderberg The Meadows
27 Simpson Loan
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Bright and modern Swedish cafe with fresh bread and light bites. Not cheap but very nice
Cafe/arts venue, run by a cooperative and always friendly and fairly cheap. You can also buy a stranger a free coffee there, or claim a free coffee, bought by a stranger, yourself.
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The Forest Cafe
141 Lauriston Pl
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Cafe/arts venue, run by a cooperative and always friendly and fairly cheap. You can also buy a stranger a free coffee there, or claim a free coffee, bought by a stranger, yourself.
lovely cakes and interesting teas in china cups with flasks of hot water. Big wooden tables that are often shared. Very popular
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Lovecrumbs West Port
155 West Port
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lovely cakes and interesting teas in china cups with flasks of hot water. Big wooden tables that are often shared. Very popular
Lovely and inexpensive Japanese restaurant. cash only and BYOB. One of my favourites.
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Bentoya
13 Bread St
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Lovely and inexpensive Japanese restaurant. cash only and BYOB. One of my favourites.
Very small and sweet Spanish restaurant. Gets very busy so best to book. The food is nice, but I've not found it amazing, the staff are very friendly though!
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El Quijote
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Very small and sweet Spanish restaurant. Gets very busy so best to book. The food is nice, but I've not found it amazing, the staff are very friendly though!
Nice pub retaining traditional features but with a clean modern style. Serves lots of beers and good burgers
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The Southern Bar
22-26 S Clerk St
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Nice pub retaining traditional features but with a clean modern style. Serves lots of beers and good burgers
Remarkably reasonable and good food. Good views of the castle. Sister restaurant to the apartment.
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The Outsider Restaurant
15-16 George IV Bridge
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Remarkably reasonable and good food. Good views of the castle. Sister restaurant to the apartment.
Good food at reasonable price. Stylish restaurant.
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The Apartment
7-13 Barclay Pl
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Good food at reasonable price. Stylish restaurant.
Korean Restaurant. Never been but have heard lots of good things about this restaurant and think its quite reasonably priced. I really want to go.
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Kim's Mini Meals
5 Buccleuch St
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Korean Restaurant. Never been but have heard lots of good things about this restaurant and think its quite reasonably priced. I really want to go.
French bistro restaurant. Very sweet and one of my favourite restaurants. Locally sourced fresh produce. Sometimes great food, sometimes just good. Bit expensive but have cheaper pre-theatre&set menus
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Cafe St Honorė
34 Thistle St N W Ln
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French bistro restaurant. Very sweet and one of my favourite restaurants. Locally sourced fresh produce. Sometimes great food, sometimes just good. Bit expensive but have cheaper pre-theatre&set menus
Popular place with students. Thai street food on long shared tables.
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TING THAI CARAVAN Teviot Place
9 Teviot Pl
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Popular place with students. Thai street food on long shared tables.
Good but expensive restaurant at the top of the museum.
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Tower Restaurant
Chambers Street
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Good but expensive restaurant at the top of the museum.
GREAT coffee and good pastries and friendly staff
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Machina Espresso
38 W Tollcross
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GREAT coffee and good pastries and friendly staff

Sightseeing

Two museums, one old , one new, both beautifully designed, combined to house Scotland's and the world's treasures. Great roof terrace and restaurant.
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National Museum of Scotland
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Two museums, one old , one new, both beautifully designed, combined to house Scotland's and the world's treasures. Great roof terrace and restaurant.