Locanda De Gusti
The chef is from Naples, and the seafood is where that shows on the plate.1
Why go
Time Out ranked this twentieth among Edinburgh restaurants in February 2026 and read the kitchen off its chef: Rosario Sartore is Neapolitan, the cooking runs pronounced southern Italian, and the seafood is the part the piece calls excellent.1 It sits at 102 Dalry Road, under five minutes' walk from Haymarket station.1 Sartore and his wife Maria also launched Pizzeria 1926, a dedicated Neapolitan pizza operation further along the same road, which is a second regional format from the same pair in the same neighborhood.2
What locals & experts say
- Time Out Edinburgh (February 2026), on where the cooking comes from:
Chef Rosario Sartore is from Naples, so the cooking has a pronounced southern Italian style, with lots of excellent seafood, while the décor puts diners in mind of a bright, polite farmhouse kitchen.
1 The same piece names the lunch as the value on the card:The three-course lunch menu at £28 is an absolute steal.
Good to know
- Price: GBP 28 for three courses at lunch, on Time Out's February 2026 figure. No dinner price is published anywhere.1
- Hours: as published in February 2026, Monday to Thursday 5.30pm to 10pm, Friday 12.30pm to 3.30pm and 5.30pm to 10pm, Saturday 12.30pm to 10pm. Time Out lists no Sunday service.1
- Booking: nothing published on the policy. Treat a weekend table as one to book.
- Getting there: 102 Dalry Road, four or five minutes on foot from Haymarket station.
- Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 18 July 2023, FHRSID 699768. Three years and one month old, past the eighteen-month bound, so the hygiene register says nothing recent about the premises either way.3
- Name collision: the hygiene register also carries Locanda De Gusti Catering at a council address. That is the outside-catering arm and not this dining room.
Verdict
could-visit — A Neapolitan kitchen on Dalry Road, five minutes from Haymarket, cooks the seafood half of the southern Italian card. Time Out placed it twentieth in the city in February 2026 and read the cooking off the chef's origin: Rosario Sartore is from Naples, the style is pronounced southern Italian, and the seafood is where it lands. The same piece prices the three-course lunch at GBP 28 and calls it a steal, which is the number to plan around. Sartore and his wife Maria also launched Pizzeria 1926 up the same road, so this is an operator with a second Neapolitan format in the neighborhood rather than a one-room accident. What holds it at could-visit is the thinness of the record. One roundup paragraph is the entire current critical file, no scored review exists anywhere reachable, and the hygiene pass on the premises is three years old. Book the lunch, go on a weekday, and know that the recommendation rests on one writer's paragraph.