Newington
7 rooms on the Edinburgh list
The green space at the middle of the south side has a ring of small kitchens around it, and they cook for the people who live there. Going clockwise from the west, Bruntsfield holds two seafood rooms in LeftField and FIN & GRAPE, one of them cooked by a single chef for 24 seats. Marchmont holds three tiny set-menu rooms, NADAIR, Argile with ten counter seats and one man behind them, and Mara's Picklery with 22 covers and a menu handwritten daily. Salvatore's does the classic chippy on the same side. Southside and Newington run the cheapest and the most specific food in the city: Chennai's Marina for Sri Lankan, Memed Barbecue Grill & Meze Bar for an ocakbasi grill, Kebab Mahal for late Punjabi, and 徐州地鍋 Xu Zhou Ground Pot Chinese Restaurant for the food of one Chinese prefecture. Condita holds a star behind a shopfront on Salisbury Place that the Good Food Guide says you could walk straight past. Pomelo sits just over the line in The Grange with hand-ripped noodles, and Canny Mans has poured whisky on Morningside Road since 1871.
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Known for, here
The cheap pint in an old room3 here
- Leslie's Bar — Ticket-window hatches let the lounge order without being seen from the public bar, and the good pint ran GBP 4.60.
- Steel Coulson Southside — Up to six cask ales and ciders run on handpump under retained cornices, and the pours often come off a gravity stillage at the end of the bar.
- The Dagda Bar — A stone-flagged eighteenth-century tenement bar gives a third of its floor to the counter, and Time Out ranked it 21st best pub in the UK for 2026.
Restaurants2
徐州地鍋 Xu Zhou Ground Pot Chinese Restaurant?
Solid · Chinese · Newington · $$
walk-in
A ring of flatbreads is stuck round the inside wall of the iron pot, above the braise, and left there while the whole thing simmers.
Condita★!
Solid · Restaurant · Newington · $$$$
booking essential
A wine-marinated mussel on an edible squid-ink shell, six tables, a Michelin star on the 2026 guide, and a hygiene rating of fail from June 2026.
Pubs & cask4
The Abbey
Solid · Pub · Newington · $$
walk-in
The back bar keeps its own single-cask bottlings alongside the standard range, which means there are drams in this Newington pub you cannot pour anywhere else in the world.
Leslie's Bar?
Solid · Cask ale pub · Newington · $
walk-in
A mahogany counter splits the pub in two, and ticket-window hatches let the lounge order drinks without being seen from the public bar.
Steel Coulson Southside?
Listed · Cask ale and cider pub · Newington · $
walk-in
Up to six cask ales and ciders sit on handpump, and CAMRA warns that what you get may actually come off a gravity stillage at the far end of the bar.
The Dagda Bar?
Listed · Cask ale pub · Newington · $
walk-in
The counter takes up at least a third of the floor, and the gantry mirrors disappear behind pump clips.
Bakes & sweet1
Kate's?
Solid · Bakery · Newington · $
walk-in
Kate Murphy put the kitchen at the back of the room so she could bake and welcome people at the same time, and the counter changes with whatever is in season.
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