S Luca
- Food served: Mon–Sun 9am–9.30pm
- Also offers: Vegetarian options (at least 25% of main courses), Gluten-free options, Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access, Takeaway
- Music on stereo: Just a radio playing in the kitchen
- Capacity: 65
- Open since: 1999
- Average price 2 courses:
£7 (lunch)
£7 (evening meal) - BYOB: £1.50 corkage
This review appears in the The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2008 – in the shops now or buy online.
S Luca's fame rests on the ice-cream rather than the lunches but at its Morningside café you can have both. Be warned though: the café is tucked away upstairs, and only a determined diner will make it past the array of sweeties, chocolates and ice-cream displayed for sale at street level. The café is pleasantly, if unremarkably, decked out in white and lilac with low sloping ceilings and plastic tables, and is a popular venue for families. There's pasta and pizza and sausage and chips to keep kids happy, while offerings aimed at adults include panini, nachos, all-day breakfasts and burgers. Some of the standard café fare is a bit uneven – the scampi is a tad greasy, though the fluffy chips hit the spot – but you can't go wrong with a French brunch of poached eggs with bacon, served on toasted English muffins and lavishly doused with hollandaise. And then – tad dah! – it's on to those renowned ice-cream sundaes. Which shall it be? Perhaps the praline parfait with soft, sweet vanilla ice-cream, smooth chocolate sauce and whipped cream? S Luca saves the best till last.
- High point: Family friendly…
- Low point: …in bland surroundings
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