Filmhouse Café Bar

Fabulous, fresh, fast food in a venue offering great movie choices

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The Filmhouse Café and Bar does what it does so beautifully, and unassumingly, it’s easy to overlook what an impressive operation it is. Here’s a café that serves a wide selection of flavour-packed meals, catering for all dietary requirements, to up to 150 people, with the speed and efficiency required when people are about to head into a flick. Weekly specials keep an otherwise tried-and-trusted menu fresh for frequent visitors, but it’s hard to resist the temptation to re-order favourites – seriously great hummus, buttery garlic bread, wholesome veggie curry and enormous baked potatoes. Traybakes offer tasty pud options – the brownie is so squidgy you’ll be fighting the urge to lick the plate clean. All that and the bar selection isn’t shabby either – a wide choice of inexpensive, tasty plonk and a strong array of local and exported beers on draught, all able to be decanted to a plastic cup for your movie. True cineastes are advised to try their fiendishly hard monthly film quiz as well – such stuff as celluloid nightmares are made of.

• High point: Their full Scottish breakfast is one of Edinburgh's finest
• Low point: Gets awfully busy just before screening
• Notable dish: Seriously, the hummus is terrific