Categories: Coffee & Tea, Breakfast & Brunch, Italian [Edit]
11 Multrees WalkEdinburgh EH1 3DQ
0131 557 0088
- Hours:
Mon 8:00 - 18:00
Tue-Sat 8:00 - 22:00
Sun 11:00 - 18:00
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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£££
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
5 reviews for Vin Caffe
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Two words: Pollo Saltimbocca
Seriously.
Forget the home-made pasta, the pizzas, the panninis and the delicious sounding antipasta dishes with fresh buffalo mozzarella, pachino cherry tomatoes, salami and homemade bread and just order the polla saltimbocca. We're talking deliciously moist chicken breast wrapped in crispy proscuitto and fragrant sage and pan-fried to perfection. Served with seasonal greens and small roast potatoes, it's heaven on a plate.
Vin Caffe is a great shopping stop off for really good coffee and a quick bite to eat. If you're looking for something more substantial for lunch or dinner, Vin Caffe also has a restaurant upstairs which serves some very yummy Italian food concoctions.
The cafe area inside is modern but traditionally Italian at the same time, so there's a really good, homely feel about sitting here with delightful coffee scents in the air, and a selection of paninis and tasty looking cakes on offer. There are also lots of seats at the counter, so you can prop up the bar with your espresso Italian style.
The restaurant upstairs is classy looking and always busy with a mix of people, so there's a really bustling atmosphere while you're dining. The bread served here is amazing, as it's baked in the restaurant's own bakery, and the menu is made up of really fresh, quality ingredients, which after several samplings, I can confirm taste awesome. For a starter, I favour the Antipasto, followed by Pollo Saltimbocca, a pan-fried chicken breast with proscuitto and sage, served with roasted potatoes.
Whenever my dad's up in Edinbugh for work he always jokes about how we 'mysteriously' end up in here having a coffee or a glass of wine... I just seem to gravitate towards it it's that good.
It's named after the family that run this Edinburgh empire; they have a handful of other food & drink places dotted around the city, but this is definitely their best if you ask me.
I've never eaten in the formal sit-down restaurant upstairs, I've just peeked in whilst on my way up to the loos - which, by the way are immaculate and always have lovely Molton Brown moisturiser for you to use after you've washed your hands. My mum always says you should judge a place by their loos and house wine, and this place definitely ticks the loo box.
On my first trip here, i couldn't control my inner child and ordered one of their ice cream floats. I don't care what anyone says, I'll be ordering these in here until I'm so old I can no longer feed myself, it was that good. Think luxury italian chocolate and vanilla ice cream blended with oreos and topped up with Coke. Not great if you're a dentist, but so worth the sugar content!!!
On my next visit I was feeling slightly less like a five year old, and so I ordered a glass of white wine. The second box in my mum's theory can now be ticked off as well - it was ice cold for starters, and for once it actually tasted like the flowery descriptions that everywhere insists on writing under the name of it on the wine list.
Obviously, you have to eat something in here, otherwise it defeats half the prpose of coming somewhere so nice. The cakes are always changing around, but if they have caramel shortbread on display in the chill counter then you could do a lot worse than order that.
Vinn cafe seems to have it all: Good coffee, excellent service and an interesting interior filled with all the stuff I want to buy to kit out my kitchen of the future.
It's located on Multrees walk- the more upmarket shops are located here so people watching can be quite amusing. The cafe has an open glass front so even if it's chilli and the sun is out you can still enjoy the sun. Because it's part of the Vavona Crolla chain it also has a whole load of cool stuff for coffee and pasta making- a bit over priced of course but good quality.
The Valvona and Crolla Vin Caffe is a stylish shop/cafe/restaurant on Edinburgh's exclusive Multrees Walk. The Vin Caffe is split over two levels with the shop/cafe on the ground floor and the restaurant above. They also have a number of tables and chairs outside on Multrees Walk, which are perfect for enjoying an afternoon coffee when the Scottish weather permits - it's a pretty continental set-up. Valvona and Crolla is one of Edinburgh's oldest and most prestigious Italian delicatessens and the Vin Caffe certainly lives up to the deli's well established good reputation. The coffee is exquisitely made and the tapas-style nibbly dishes are of exceptional quality. When I lived just around the corner I would occasionally come here for a bite to eat on a Sunday afternoon, they do brilliant sausage rolls, however the place is usually packed and it can be a bit of a mission to secure a seat.
If someone else is picking up the bill, get them to take you here - otherwise, keep an eye on the website as they do some good value deals (e.g. two small dishes and a glass of wine for £9.99).