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CafA©s and restaurants
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The last decade has seen an upsurge in style, sophistication and good taste in Edinburgh's cafA©s and restaurants.
CafA©
culture has hit the centre of the city, with tables spilling onto the pavements in the summer, and this has been matched by the rise of a clutch of original, upmarket and stylish
restaurants
, many identifying their cuisine as "contemporary" or "modern Scottish" and championing top-quality meat, game and fish. As with most large British cities, the culinary map of Edinburgh is colourful and global, with long-established Chinese, Indian and Mexican places competing with outlets for Thai, Japanese, North African and Spanish cuisine.
Generally, small
diners
and
bistros
predominate, many adopting a casual French style and offering good-value set menus. Traditional Scottish cooking can still be found at some of the more formal restaurants, and inevitably some tourist-oriented places offer haggis and other classic clichA©s. Edinburgh excels in
vegetarian
restaurants, including a couple of classic Indian vegetarian places, and
seafood
- it's long been a speciality of the Leith waterfront, and you'll now also find a number of great seafood bistros in the centre of town. Other useful information
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