The Walnut
This one-room Leith Walk bistro lets you bring your own bottle.1
Why go
Time Out's Keith Davidson places it in the run of better bars and eateries that appeared along Leith Walk in the mid-2010s, and describes a small independent room doing bistro cooking in simple surroundings.1 It launched at the end of 2015.1
What locals & experts say
- Keith Davidson, Time Out, on the room and the reason to go: it launched
as a small, independent venue offering a high standard of bistro cooking in simple surroundings: one room, mix'n'match chairs, wooden floor, light colour scheme
, andIn terms of accessibility, informality, sheer quality and its BYOB policy, it's an absolutely lovely place to eat.
1 Descriptive critic copy, not a scored review, and not recent.
Good to know
- Booking: no policy is published. Book anyway, because it is one small room.
- Hours: nobody publishes them, so phone before you go.
- BYOB: described by Davidson and not re-confirmed against a current source. Worth a call before you carry a bottle across town.
- Getting there: 9 Croall Place, just off Leith Walk.
- Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 29 April 2026, FHRSID 878516. Three months old.2
- Not to be confused: The Walnut Tree Inn on Michelin's 2026 UK list is in Abergavenny and has nothing to do with this room.
Verdict
could-visit — A one-room Leith Walk bistro that opened at the end of 2015 and lets you bring your own bottle. Time Out's Keith Davidson describes it as part of the change along that stretch: small, independent, a high standard of bistro cooking in simple surroundings, mix-and-match chairs and a wooden floor, and he rates the combination of accessibility, informality and sheer quality alongside the BYOB policy. That is a specific and unusual proposition in a city where the wine markup is often where the bill goes. Go for dinner and take a bottle. What holds the tier down is that the description is the only coverage, it is not recent, and nothing confirms the BYOB policy still stands.