Restaurant and Cafe Reviews in Edinburgh

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Review of Guiliano's on the Shore, Edinburgh

All the Italian favourites are at Guilianos on the Shore from pizza and pasta, to waiters that could double as the Super Mario Brothers. The traditional food's freshly cooked and there's a wine list as long as the Water of Leith. There's even live accordion music Mon–Wed nights, so you can re–enact the spaghetti scene from Lady and the Tramp –not that you're date's a dog or anything. Just don't request Shaddappa You Face by Joe Dolce – turns out he wasn't even Italian.

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Essential Detail


1 Commercial Street,
Edinburgh
EH1 2QD

Open
Sun–Thu 12pm–10.30pm; Fri–Sat 12pm–11pm

Contact
 0131 554 5272

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