Made In Italy

You're sitting on one of Edinburgh's most characterful cobbled squares, and Made In Italy knows exactly what it's doing. This is the kind of place where they're not mucking about with foam or molecular bollocks—it's straightforward Italian done properly, with ingredients that taste like they've actually travelled from the continent rather than sat in a depot in Leith. The wood-fired oven does serious work, turning out pizzas with proper leopard spots, while their pasta dishes are the sort of thing that remind you why Italian cooking doesn't need reinventing. It's bustling without being chaotic, and the staff genuinely seem to know their stuff about the food they're serving.