Apartment's success obviously depends on the food, but its status as an informal designer eaterie for middle-class Edinburgh hipsters also owes much to its location:...

Sharing a building with the Traverse Theatre, Andrew Radford's flagship restaurant changed the rules of Edinburgh's fine dining scene when it opened back in 1993. These days...

This modern neighbourhood restaurant, named after its blond-wood interior, has been a real asset to the area since opening in 2000. The menu takes an eclectic approach: dishes...

Upstairs from the Atrium restaurant and also run by Andrew Radford, Blue was a real smash when it opened in 1997. It's moved in and out of vogue over the years, but is still...

The most obvious feature of this boutique hotel (p180) is the spacious lounge with newspapers to browse and leather sofas on which to slump. You can drink here, but you'd also...

The catering wing of the Edinburgh International Festival HQ, Café Hub sits in a building dating to 1845, originally an assembly hall and offices for the Church of Scotland....

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...

To keep up with the Joneses, or at least the brash competition nearby, the long-established George Hotel reinvented its bar-restaurant area to create EH2 Tempus in 2006. A big...

The MacRae brothers, who hail from the Isle of Skye, opened this Dalry Road bistro in 2003. Decor-wise, it's all done out in white and light blue, with touches of bare stone...

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...

Looking out from first-floor level down a curving, cobbled brae, the Grain Store is a comforting presence. Stone-walled, wooden-floored and candlelit, it's been a city...

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...

With four venues in Edinburgh, Howies adeptly fills a niche as the kind of accessible bistro that young couples might choose for an economical night out, but also the sort of...

The ground floor bar is pleasingly modern (with free Wi-Fi access); upstairs is a small organic restaurant, added in 2005 by energetic proprietor Charlie Cornelius (who also...