Restaurant and Cafe Reviews in Edinburgh

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Review of Bar Italia, Edinburgh

This centrally located Italian joint is consistently busy, noisy and full of energy, and so it should be. The food is fresh, tasty and cheap and if you rock up with twenty mates they won't even bat an eyelid. As such it's perfect for birthday celebrations with plenty of banter and enthusiastic renditions of Happy Birthday the minute you even hint at the concept of a special occasion. It's very much a tuck in, chill out and do whatever you fancy kind of place –if that means you want sparklers in your ice–cream and the waiter with the bushy eyebrows to snog your mate, we reckon they'll probably oblige. Certainly not quiet first–date territory.

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Essential Detail


100 Lothian Road,
Edinburgh
EH3 9BE

Open
Sun–Mon 12pm–3am

Contact
 01312286379

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