Diners' Choice: Best Overall restaurants in Edinburgh

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Updated 05 October 2026

Looking for the best overall restaurants in Edinburgh? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyses nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favourite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

SABZI

5.0

5 (22)

£25 and under

Indian

Edinburgh

About the restaurant

We're SABZI, a family-run, award-winning Punjabi Restaurant serving up the most delicious North Indian dishes from home-cooked favourites to classic restaurant cuisine.

With new weekly menu’s available, we offer something fresh, fun and somewhat quirky.

With family recipes passed down generations, your tastebuds will dance like never before.

Followed by true Indian hospitality, you'll be sure to arrive as guests and leave feeling like family."

Top review

OpenTable Diner

Dined 2 days ago

The food was beautifully presented with delicious unique flavours. Family run restaurant very friendly. Highly recommended

Understory

4.9

4.9 (19)

£25 and under

Cocktail Bar

Westend

About the restaurant

Understory is a subterranean cocktail bar and kitchen in central Edinburgh. Set in a stone-vaulted room below street level, it opens in 2026 under a new team.

The drinks are built from ingredients made in-house: shrubs, cordials, ferments and infusions produced in our own lab, then served cold, dry and unfussed. The list changes in batches rather than seasons.
The kitchen runs a short menu of small plates designed for sharing across a long evening, alongside bar snacks and soft serve.

Open seven days. Walk-ins welcome; booking advised Thursday to Saturday.
The vaults are also available for private hire.

Top review

Aliyah

Dined 3 days ago

Amazing experience for 24th birthday! Beautiful beautiful bar

Pizzeria 1926

4.8

4.8 (212)

£25 and under

Italian

Edinburgh

About the restaurant

WELCOME TO
PIZZERIA 1926
Pizzeria 1926 has brought an authentic taste of Naples/Napoli to the vibrant, pizza-loving city of Edinburgh since 2016.
You can find our traditional, laid-back eatery in the heart of Scotland’s capital, a short five-minute walk from Haymarket station.

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Gary

Dined on 15 Oct 2026

Outstanding food and service at this restaurant, simply the best pizzas available in Edinburgh, bar none! Can’t recommend this place highly enough! Fantastic food, speedy service and superb staff……and portraits of Diego Maradona inside and outside - what’s not to love?

Paz Taqueria

4.9

4.9 (273)

£25 and under

Mexican

New Town

About the restaurant

Paz Taqueria is a vibrant Mexican restaurant in the heart of Edinburgh, celebrated for its authentic street food, hand-pressed tacos, and expertly crafted cocktails. With a focus on bold flavors, fresh ingredients, and a warm, welcoming atmosphere, Paz Taqueria brings a slice of Mexico to the city.

Top review

Róise

Dined 2 days ago

Food was unbelievable some of the best tacos in Edinburgh!! Will definitely be back!

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Experience

Lunch Deal Monday to Thursday

Wildfire

4.9

4.9 (1016)

£26 to £40

Steakhouse

New Town

About the restaurant

We are a small, independent family run restaurant since 2002 specialising in grass fed Aberdeen Angus beef from Scottish small highland farms, cooked simply but with flair and attention to detail. We also serve fresh fish from local fish mongers west coast mussels, salmon, shrimps & Prawns.
Our emphasis is on high quality local ingredients and fresh produce from the best of local suppliers. Beef is selected, prepared and hung for us by Award wining "John Gilmour" of Macmerry master butchers since 1946. Fresh fish are delivered daily by Calum Sinclair and J.K Thompsons. West coast Mussels are delivered freshly daily by "Sea Mcgee". Artisan and farmhouse British cheeses are supplied by renowned Edinburgh cheesemonger, Iain Mellis and dairy produce from Fife Creamery. We take pride to cook everything fresh in our own kitchen daily.
We have outside seating arrangements for walk-Ins only.

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Susan

Dined 2 days ago

Absolutely fantastic! Can not fault anything. Great food, service and ambience. Thank you!

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Muna's Ethiopian Cuisine

4.7

4.7 (158)

£26 to £40

Ethiopian

Edinburgh

About the restaurant

Welcome to Muna's Ethiopian Cuisine! We look forward to serving you.

Top review

Tom

Dined on 17 Oct 2026

Great Food, and presented in an authentacally Ethiopic ambience, friendly and welcoming throughout.

Novapizza Vegan Kitchen

4.9

4.9 (801)

£26 to £40

Vegan

Edinburgh

About the restaurant

Welcome to Novapizza Vegan Kitchen, the unique 100% vegan Italian place in Edinburgh.

We are a lgbtq+ family business, operating since 2015.
We are known for our delicious pizzas and pasta, some of the awards won are:
- Best Pizza Scottish Italian awards 2017
- Best Vegan Restaurant Scottish food awards 2020

Our philosophy is to recreate the most popular Italian dishes in a vegan key.
Our restaurant has a small capacity with a very cosy and romantic atmosphere.

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claire

Dined on 15 Oct 2026

Really cute place. Visited with a good friend. He isn’t vegan but I am. He was blown away by the food. As was I. We shared a pasta and pizza between us. We had cocktails and wine and different types of tiramisu for pud. Everything was perfect. Thx so much.

Rhubarb Restaurant

4.9

4.9 (128)

£41 and over

British

Newington

About the restaurant

Minimalists and speed-eaters, avert your eyes. Rhubarb has arrived in all its opulent, theatrical, lingering glory. Set in twenty acres of gorgeous parkland yet a short drive from the Royal Mile, Rhubarb and its hotel home, Prestonfield, are the creation of James Thomson. Black-kilted porters escort you to Rhubarb's two oval Regency dining rooms decorated in baroque splendour, with giant chandeliers, silk wall coverings, and ancestral portraits. The menu, created by chef John McMahon, uses classic techniques and modern inspiration to transform ingredients into sublime grub. Popular dishes include the Gewurztraminer poached foie gras, the breast of Loue chicken on tarragon risotto, and the assiette of rhubarb desserts. There are more than five hundred wines to choose from, and more than one hundred malts.

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Debbie

Dined on 16 Sept 2026

Our experience exceeded our expectations. The wait staff were very friendly and professional. The food was expertly prepared and the ambiance blew us away. Such a romantic place to have dinner!

Café St Honoré

4.8

4.8 (1960)

£41 and over

French

New Town

About the restaurant

Bringing 1940s Paris to modern-day Edinburgh, Café St Honoré restaurant is a charming bistro serving up traditional French cuisine (with a few Scottish favourites thrown in) to a loyal clientele. Tucked away on a picturesque cobbled lane in the New Town, the cosy dining room at Café St Honore, with mirrored walls and black-and-white tiled floors, provides an atmospheric retreat. The team here are passionate about local, organic produce, so the menu changes daily. There are prix fixe menus on offer at lunch and dinner if you’re after a bargain, or just need an excuse to indulge in dessert. In the evening, a seasonal menu du jour is available alongside the full a la carte, which features dishes like roast pheasant with red cabbage and pancetta; Our warming Cafe St Honore Cassoulet; and vanilla crème brûlée. The wine list features some excellent French wines – a real treat for novices and connoisseurs alike.

Top review

rober

Dined 7 days ago

Excellent quality food, cooked perfectly and well presented, great flavours. An intimate but classy environment with a French mood. Happy, friendly service. Just a thoroughly enjoyable and memorable experience all round.

Mimi's Bakehouse - Corstorphine

4.7

4.7 (265)

£25 and under

Breakfast

Edinburgh

About the restaurant

Mimi’s Bakehouse is a second-generation family business established in Edinburgh in 2010, when Michelle Phillips sold her family home to open a bakery café in Leith. We have gone on to build a local success story brand that gives people a ‘hug when they walk in the door’ as the original café has since doubled in size and the business has gained five more shops, a successful website selling cakes online and a concession at Archerfield Walled Garden. We also opened an industrial bakery in March 2020, out of which most online trade is produced for fulfilment. Mimi’s Bakehouse has become one of Edinburgh’s best-loved bakeries and an award-winning brand which is a well-known “feel good” place to visit, while remaining small enough to go the extra mile and try new things.

Top review

Ali

Dined on 10 Oct 2026

Mimi’s is always exceptional! Staff are professional & friendly, restaurant is always clean, food is fresh & very consistent! Definitely recommend! ⭐️ x5

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