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The Treehouse

The Treehouse
44 Leven Street
Edinburgh, EH3 9LJ
Phone: 0131 656 0513
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  • Food served: Mon–Sat 8am-–5pm; Sun 9am–5pm.
  • Also offers: Vegetarian options (at least ¼ main courses), Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Takeaway, Outdoor tables, Live music
  • Music on stereo: Radiohead
  • Capacity: 25
  • Largest group: 12
  • Open since: 2008
Eating & Drinking Guide 2009

This review appears in the The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2009 – in the shops now or buy online.

At barely a year old The Treehouse is already a firm favourite with local businesses, patrons of the Cameo Cinema and King’s Theatre, and students, who enjoy ten per cent discount. Situated on the corner of Leven Street and overlooking Bruntsfield Links, the café offers some of the best breakfasts you'll find in Edinburgh – thank goodness they’re available all day. This oasis of comfort food is a grand hangover cure if you’ve overdone it the night before, and wonderfully indulgent if you didn’t. Tuck into a mountain of fluffy scrambled egg served with crispy streaky bacon and sausage or a stack of pancakes with dry-cured bacon oozing maple syrup, or even a bowl of piping hot porridge. Find solace in a slab of moist carrot cake, or home-made banana muffin, washed down with spine-tingling strong coffee or – wait for it – a milkshake! Lunch is home-made soup: always vegetarian and the sort you can stand a spoon in. Blackboards boast imaginative fillings for toasties and panini, including chicken, chorizo and swiss cheese and wonderfully garlicky hummus and roast veggies. Or you can make up your own. Morning trade is brisk here but afternoons are more chilled and there’s live folk music every Sunday at 3pm. The Treehouse offers simple, comfort food and scores highly for the feel-good factor.

  • High point: Mint Aero milkshake
  • Low point: Stark interior

Comments for The Treehouse (44 Leven Street, Edinburgh)

1. Lane – 18 May 2009, 9:53pm(5s)Report

i no longer live in edinburgh, but when i did, this was one of my favorite places to grab a cup and a bite to eat. their coffee is delicious and the lattes well-made. quite honestly the best carrot cake i've ever had came from this place. completely reasonable prices. the food was all delicious and the place is cozy and friendly. i miss it so much!

2. marie-claude, polwarth – 23 May 2009, 6:01pmReport

very nice café. Friendly staff, cheap, cosy. Love it.

3. Fras, Edinburgh, Buccleuch Street – 5 June 2009, 7:12pm(4s)Report

Great food, endlessly friendly and helpful staff, i stop off for coffee and cake as part of my routine several times a week at this lively, welcoming cafe. Top grub, reasonable prices. Must visit if you head to the Burgh.

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5. Jazzer, Edinburgh – 5 June 2009, 8:58pmReport

Love this place! The food is great, the staff are so friendly and its just a great place to hangout. Highly recommend it.

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7. quincy..., new york – 6 June 2009, 3:32pmReport

...LOVE this place. the sausage and egg breakfast rolls and carrot cake are possibly the bestest in the world. friendly quirky atmosphere and staff. perfect place to take a time out and read the paper with coffee and cake, or meet friends for a good old chin wag. 10/10. Hx

8. Gav, Edinburgh – 2 September 2009, 9:15pm(5s)Report

I eat here once or twice a week for lunch. Staff are always friendly and quick to serve. Food is so so good and very consistent - panini's always perfect, latte's and hot chocolate's lovely and milionaire shortbread super sweet. Highly recommended. Best of it's kind in Tollcross area - and I've tried most of them!

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