The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant

The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant is a restaurant in , which is located on The Mound. The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant is situated nearby to the square , as well as near the art gallery .
  • Type: Restaurant
  • Cuisine: regional
  • Also known as: “Contini”
  • Address: 1 The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Scottish National Gallery and The Mound.

Art gallery
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The National is the national art gallery of . It is located on in central , close to . The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859.

Square
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is an artificial slope and road in central , Scotland, which connects Edinburgh's and . It was formed by dumping around 1,501,000 cartloads of earth excavated from the foundations of the New Town into Nor Loch, which was drained in 1765 and forms today's .

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is a historic castle in , Scotland. It stands on , which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. is situated 1,400 feet southwest of The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.

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is the original settlement of . At its core is the Royal Mile, the long street descending east from Castle Crag to Holyrood Palace. This medieval city was cramped for space so it built higher and higher, and stank higher still, hence its nickname of "Auld Reekie".

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of is 250 years old, in contrast to the settled for over a thousand years. It was laid out on a grid pattern in the late 18th century with elegant Georgian townhouses, and the intervening loch was drained to become Princes Street Gardens.

Neighborhood
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the marketing name given to the mixed use redevelopment of the former site, in , . It was master-planned by architect Foster + Partners and takes its name from the fact it is a quarter mile from Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile and measures a quarter mile from corner to corner.

The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant

Latitude
55.95155° or 55° 57′ 6″ north
Longitude
-3.19551° or 3° 11′ 44″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR23+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6320913032
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­restaurant
Open­Street­Map attribute
cuisine=­regional
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
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