195 Gorgie Road · Edinburgh

caledonia

Cafe & BistroSit-in or takeaway

Full breakfasts with tattie scones and black pudding, stacks of pancakes, omelettes, toasties and a pot of tea with a red cup. Seven days a week, a couple of minutes from Tynecastle.

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The Caledonia shopfront on Gorgie Road: a red fascia reading 'caledonia, Cafe & Bistro, Edinburgh, Sit-in or takeaway' with the address and phone number, over a window listing breakfast, hot and cold drinks, cakes, wraps, fish and chips, panini, toasties and burgers.
195 Gorgie RdPhoto: Stephen R
A big full breakfast on a slate-blue plate: two sausages, bacon, a fried egg, beans with mushrooms, black pudding, a hash brown, a tattie scone and buttered toast, with chips on the side.

Photo: Henryk Gródek via Google Maps

Breakfast · all day

the full scottish plate.

This is the plate that gets photographed: everything on it, nothing skimped, and the toast cut into triangles.

Link sausagesBaconFried eggBeans & mushroomsBlack puddingTattie sconeHash brownToast

Breakfast served all day

Sweet & more

pancakes, omelettes, a red cup.

The window says it all, from breakfast to burgers. Here's what else people photograph at the tables.

A stack of pancakes with chocolate spread, strawberries, blueberries and banana, drizzled with chocolate and white sauce and dusted with sugar.

The pancake stack

Chocolate, berries, banana and a zigzag of sauce.

Photo: Caledonia Cafe & Bistro
Three pancakes spread with chocolate and topped with sliced banana, strawberries and blueberries on a grey plate.

Or laid out flat

Chocolate spread, banana, strawberries and blueberries.

Photo: Henryk Gródek
A golden omelette with chips, a side salad of tomatoes, red onion, peppers and olives, and coleslaw, next to an orange teapot and a red cup of tea.

Omelette & chips

With salad, coleslaw and a pot of tea.

Photo: alvaro muñoz

Also on the window

  • Wraps ✓
  • Fish & chips ✓
  • Panini's ✓
  • Toasties ✓
  • Burgers ✓
  • Cakes ✓
Straight from the lettering along the bottom of their front window.
Inside Caledonia: a pillar with a 'Welcome to Cafe Caledonia' sign, stone-effect walls, maroon panelling, wooden tables with upholstered chairs, a chiller cabinet of cakes and a drinks fridge.

Photo: D S

Inside

a proper local caff.

Stone-effect walls, maroon panelling, cakes in the chiller and a welcome sign on the pillar. A couple of minutes along Gorgie Road from Tynecastle Park.

4.6★ on Google
298reviews
7days a week
A warm welcome

Reviewers keep mentioning friendly, attentive staff.

Breakfast, and value

Hearty breakfasts at prices people call fair.

Dogs welcome

A dog-friendly café, and bookings or walk-ins both fine.

Rating read on 14 September 2026. Themes are paraphrased from Google, Tripadvisor and other listings. Nobody is quoted.

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