5 italian rooms in Edinburgh we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Edinburgh | Italian across every city.
Italian food is woven into Edinburgh's history through its long-established Scots-Italian families, and the city still eats Italian across price points. Valvona and Crolla, the Canonmills deli and caffe bar, remains the spiritual home of that tradition, while Contini on George Street holds the New Town. Civerinos Slice keeps the casual end alive in the Old Town, and Locanda De Gusti carries southern Italian cooking out to Tollcross and the West End.
Civerinos Slice ★ 4.4
old-town · 5 Hunter Square, Edinburgh EH1 1QW
Michele Civiera's Hunter Square pizza counter in Edinburgh, opened in 2016, the Old Town slice-counter serving Roman al taglio square-tray pizza.
Locanda De Gusti ★ 4.5
tollcross-west-end · 102 Dalry Road, Edinburgh EH11 2DW
Rosario Sartore's Dalry Road kitchen in Edinburgh, opened in 2013, a family-run Neapolitan dining room running pasta, seafood and wood-fired pizza.
Contini George Street ★ 4.3
new-town · 103 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 3ES
Victor and Carina Contini's George Street dining room in Edinburgh, opened in 2004 in the former Lloyds Bank, an Italian-Scottish bistro serving.
Valvona and Crolla Caffe Bar ★ 4.4
canonmills-inverleith · 19 Elm Row, Edinburgh EH7 4AA
Valvona and Crolla's caffe-bar on Elm Row in Edinburgh, opened in 1934 (the bistro since 1996), the back-of-deli dining room for Scotland's longest-running.
Bar Napoli ★ 3.9
new-town · 75 Hanover Street, Edinburgh EH2 1EE
Bar Napoli on Hanover Street in Edinburgh New Town, an Italian restaurant and bar open until 03:00 on weekend nights, serving pasta, pizza and Italian bar.