Although it is just a few minutes' walk from the bustling west end of Princes Street, the Bonham hotel feels delightfully secluded. The menu served in its light and spacious...

Wicker chairs and wooden tables create a relaxed environment at this café, where you can count on finding solid French cuisine based around such raw materials as pigeon breast,...

Victor and Carina Contini are part of the family behind the celebrated Valvona & Crolla. However, in 2004, the duo decided to set up on their own in this former bank, still...

Cosmo, a very posh Italian, reinvented itself as a Michelin-oriented venue in 2006, a move that didn't take. Soon after, it morphed into this upmarket grill where it's possible...

Complementing the Leith original, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society opened a second venue in a restored Georgian townhouse with some modern interior design touches. The ground...

In the 1840s, the Commercial Bank of Scotland built this grand old pile as its head office; it remained a bank almost until the Dome took it over in 1996. There's a striking...

At this intimate and polished space (owned, if you were wondering, by Malcolm Duck), food comes with a French accent: goat's cheese tartlet to start, perhaps, followed by a...

Edinburgh hasn't so much experienced a wave of new Thai restaurants in the last few years as a continuous spring tide of green curry and tom yum soup. Although it is...

The owners of Fishers in Leith ventured into the city centre in 2001 with this smart, modern seafood eaterie. Hardy perennials include the excellent creamy fish soup, oysters...

Even the anti-fashion brigade has had to admit that Harvey Nicks' fourth-floor restaurant and brasserie are pretty good. The views over the Forth are tremendous, the decor is...

For more than a decade, G&T has been on every list of Edinburgh's best cafés. Given the New Town location and premium prices, it's not the most populist of places, but the food...

Chef and proprietor George Kelso built Haldanes' reputation as one of the city's most accomplished Franco-Scottish restaurants. In early 2006, it moved from Albany Street to...

When Harvey Nichols opened in Edinburgh in 2003, it heralded a shift in the city's shopping landscape. Designer togs have always been available here, but no one presents them...

The Henderson's that so many people know and love (the Salad Table, established in 1963) is just around the corner, but is effectively a basement canteen. You queue, you choose...