I love this cafe. Its located right next to Harvey Nicks and Louis Vuitton so it attracts the "ladies who lunch" and business men types. But it is oh so good. It is part of Valvona and Crolla which is an Edinburgh institution. They have so many locations popping up around the city that you are bound to bump into one. The quality offered is fantastic. The coffee is delicious and my Granny always insists I bring her a back when I go to visit. The cakes. Oh the cakes! This place has the potential to make me very fat based purely on the desserts. The rest of the food is delicious also. Simple, but fresh and tasty. I had some sort of deep fried ball of rice and mozzarella, I couldn't even begin to tell you the name because it was in Italian. But it was so yummy. As are the pizzas. If your in the city centre and need some lunch, then this is the place to go. read more

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This is a real foodie sort of place in Edinburgh. They often have live music in the upstairs restaurant and always has a great atmosphere - but I suggest you book it if you want a meal! It's lovely to sit outside Valvona & Crolla on a nice day, or even on any odd day. The seats here are always scarce, and always looks inviting to see people sitting out here, on Edinburgh's fanciest street. I often come here to drink Bellini's with friends - although I must admit they aren't the best. In a place like this, you're paying to be seen. You can tell the food is good quality...but it's wasted on lil ole me. I am not particularly fussy when it comes to food, but they serve French truffles and parfait of goat - give me a maccy d's anyday. read more

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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. read more

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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. read more

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The swanky restaurant part of the Valvolla and Crolla franchise- Vin Caffe is a great Italian eatery and one of my favourite restaurants in Edinburgh. Unfortunately, it's very popular with the Edinburgh elites and has turned into the kind of place you'll find mothers clutching babies wearing Harvey Nicks onesie's and force feeding them a carpaccio starter. Don't let this description put you off though, the food is well worth bypassing the yah's for. Get a bruschetta selection to start with- it's an order! The mozzarella tastes so creamy and the crab pate sweet and zesty. It's easily enough to allow three people to grab a tasty nibble without filling yourself up too much before mains. The pasta dishes here are always wonderful although be warned, anything that states 'garlic' as one of the main ingredients will have your mouth humming for days! Pizza's are also great- huge portions and ultra fresh ingredients. Vin Caffe might be a favourite of the yummy mummies but that doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't get a look in too. Make sure you try it out! read more

Another day, another lunch date :) This time the destination was Valvona & Crolla Vincaffe on Multrees Walk. My friend and I walked in and as downstairs was busy, the waitress advised us to go upstairs instead. We were seated promptly and both of us chose the soup of the day which today happened to be tomato soup. Also ordered a basked of 'pane casalingo', which effectively was a few slices of white bread and a walnut bread. Nice enough. The waitress was very friendly and told me all the daily specials they had on the menu - but it was soup time for me. Tomato soup was lovely and creamy, with a dash of olive oil and basil on top. The soup came with more of the white soft bread. I devoured the whole plate in record time :) This is a nice place to go for lunch, good quality food and friendly waiting staff. read more

I'm a huge fan of Valvona & Crolla. I went to their flagship store on Elm Row and had lunch opposite Clarissa Dixon Wright (one of the two fat ladies) and it was incredible. The lunch, not sitting opposite her you understand. That was just a bit strange. So I was expecting big things when I went to this place. How disappointed I was. We went inside to order coffees and the waiter was really short with us: "Sit outside and I will come to you." Erm OK. He never came. We sat there for 20 minutes and eventually we just left. It was really busy that day so I thought I'd give it another shot on a less busy day. The service was just as bad and the coffee was rubbish. And too expensive. I'm never going again. Stick to the real deal, or go somewhere else. read more

"We are probably out of Peroni" That was the first thing said to us. Very quiet and it can't decide if it's a shop, bar or restaurant, but fails on all three accounts. read more

Nice enough place to come for a coffee or tea, plenty cakes, pastry's & biscuits on offer and filled rolls ect. Breakfast rolls available and a limited lunch menu that will satisfy the hunger for a while. The restaurant area is a little rough in some areas and just need a good bleaching or deck scrubbing. Even though staff where polite and chatty and that goes a long way. read more

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In terms of the food, V&C's Vin Caffe is one of the better Italian places in the city. However, it's not a place I'd recommend, as the atmosphere...well, it don't got one. This is compounded by very mediocre service. It's a shame to see excellent work from the kitchen being so undermined by such soulless front-of-house presentation. Overall, we said: "I very much enjoyed my pizza at Valvona & Crolla. My fellow questers were delighted with their dishes, too. However, the ambience and the service were rather spiritless, so I'm not sure it's a place to which I'll be rushing back, any time soon. An Italian restaurant with such a stuffy and reserved atmosphere just isn't my thing." read more

We decided to pull up a pew outside Valvona and Crolla on a particularly pleasant sunny afternoon in Edinburgh. My Yelp-esque nature got the better of me and I popped inside to get the drinks, making my other half feel very ungentlemanly indeed. But needs must. The food itself is mainly Italian, and all sounded delicious, although somewhat hard to pronounce for those of us who aren't fluent in the lingo! We were only having coffee and a cake, and there was plenty to choose from. I chose a latte and my boyfriend had a classic cappuccino, but the cakes were the hardest part to choose, for sure. Since I was the one choosing, I opted for the lemon tart to share, which was absolutely gorgeous! One of the best desserts I have ever had, my only regret is I wish I had got one all to myself! The bill racked up almost £10, which wasn't incredibly cheap, but not overly expensive either, and the coffees were first class, made the way real authentic Italian coffee should be. Divine. read more

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Very disappointed with the quality of service on Sunday 9 August. The waitresses were uninterested, they twice failed, when asked, to provide water for the table. Fifteen minutes after ordering food we were told that two of the options were not available and when our replacement orders did arrive the sausage topped pizza contained two small pieces of sausage on what was a warm (at best) pizza. The beer was nice and they also have a great selection of wines but for the prices you are expected to pay the service was shocking. I did highlight my frustrations on the day but to say that none of the three people waiting on tables were interested, is an understatement. We chose Valvona and Crolla based on its reputation and convenient location but I am unlikely to recommend it in the future. There are plenty of other cafe venues I the local area that are much better. I am hugely disappointed with my experience, as were my three friends. You certainly expect at least courteous staff when paying so much and in such pleasant surroundings. read more

So Devine and relaxing. I've been many times. A truly wonderful place. Chef made me a verde salad to die for. Lovely wine. And now, because I'm so content, I'm having a coffee. Thankyou vin caffe for being here!! read more

I have had the pleasure of eating at the upstairs restaurant only once, several years ago, but I have not forgotten the experience. It was not long after I returned from living in Italy as well, so my judgement of Italian food outside of Italy was primed and ready. That far back I can't remember exactly what I ate but remember being blown away by the food. I do distinctly remember having the most amazing affogato at the end of the meal, presented in a gorgeous way which allowed me to pour the espresso (and I think there was a type of liqueur as well) over the gelato/ice cream, in order to limit melting. I mentioned this once, and the man went out and bought me the V&C cookbook which has left me so baffled that it sits on my shelf virtually untouched to this day. Occasionally I leaf through it but there is just no way I can re-create those recipes so on the shelf it remains. More recently, the man and I had lunch and fancy juice at the downstairs cafe. We each ordered a panini and shared. The panini were gorgeous, though after dining upstairs I found the 50s-ish decor a bit unexpected. read more

The first clue for me that I was going to like this place was really in the name. VinCaffe......... Wine Coffee, i mean these are already two of my favourite things so put that together and add sounds amazing cakes and baked goods and well lets be honest i was always going to be a happy man. I went recently with a German friends who said she only had a few hours in Edinburgh so wanted to catch up and then be able to spend a fortune shopping. This place provides all angles on this, after we had a coffee she wondered off like a kid in a candy shop while i relaxed and read the Sunday Times. When she returned we had a spot of lunch, i had the Pesce sale e salsa, to you and I its the Italian take on fish and chips, just replace chips with cubed potato. Lovely dish and very good value. My friend had the pizza which also looked and smelled amazing. So next time your spending a fortune on Multrees walk and are in need of some rest I recommend you stop in and see it for yourself. p.s. if you just in for coffee have one of the twisty do-nut type things!!! Jd over and out! read more

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). read more

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. read more

I also love a visit to Valvona & Crolla hVincaffe. I decided to take an old friend there that was visiting me and we had a lovely meal although the humous i ordered for a starter was surprisingly awful which is why i don't give it 5 star and the service wasn't as good as it usual is. read more

Having written a rave review of the original Valvona and Crolla deli, one would expect that this would be similar... However, it is not to be. I was so massively disappointed by this place that I didn't go back to the old deli for ages. Obviously a mistake, I was at Elm Row the other day and it's still amazing! This cafe, though, is not. The service was rushed and forgetful, the coffee and tea were less than inspiring and the pastries were below average. A sad day. read more

the staff were friendly and the place is quite pleasant - a few versace looking folk on account of being in multrees walk and all, but back to the coffee... my choice of 'latte' is usually served in a mug (don't think that happens in italy) but the barista had no problem with my request for my small cup size. trusty partner got the usual cappuccino the coffee was weak with most of the flavour resulting from the fact that they burnt it if i'd had the mug i don't think i would have realised it was coffee - it was so weak. the milk was on the hot end of my preferred temperature and the milk thin. if you're after a coffee, this is one to avoid edinburgh coffee lovers twitter: @edinburghcoffee read more

Do yourself a favour and try their cafe latte with the Tiramisu. I've only had this once and I hope the quality is always the same but I'd definitely return to have more. Don't try their macarons - dry and crunchy, not worth it. read more

Vin caffe caters to the Harvey Nichols crowd- its right across the street and has its fair share of posh clientele. This is, I will add, reflected in the price of the fare, most of which you would find halved at any one of the number of cafes in the vacinity. The service is atrocious and scatterbrained, but the appeal lies in the booths available and the quality of the food. The sandwiches are pricey, indeed, but they are delicious. It is the place to go for the day that you are slinging carrier bags a la Pretty Woman and when you want to nosh like Sex and the City. The coffees are stellar and the cappuccinos, in particular, must rank amongst the best in the city. Its not too dear for a latte or the like, so you can have a lazy Saturday morning, provided there's space, to sip your wonderful coffee and go about your business with the reading of newspapers and the like. In the summer, there is a patio out front that is utilitarian and does the job and allows you to gawk at the Chanel clad footballers wivesques who go about their shopping. However, in the winter, you may be hardpressed to find space as the dining area was ill thought out- with two booths taking up most of the space at minimal efficacy- and the bar stools being too close together to truly get comfortable. If you do score a seat, however, and you do have the bills to spend, you'll have a treat- as long as nonchalent service doesn't offend your sensibilities (too much). You may overhear people making multimillion dollar deals on their Blackberry. The toasted sandwiches are made on lovely bread, the stromboli (little sugared Italian donuts) are a wonderful sin, and most inspiring is the cupcake rack that looks to be out of a Madeline picture book. Two stars is what it gets- as per the dire service, the atmosphere, the price, but that is testament, truly, then to the fare on offer- the only reason to go. read more

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The staff here are very rude and very unhelpful. I waited 20 minutes to be served and the coffee was not great. I am dissapointed as I read a review/recommendation about this place in the 2011 Louis Vouitton Europe travel books!? Not what I would expect from a luxury brand. read more

Very nice lunch, very odd focaccia (more like pizza base), parma ham and fig starter delicious, rib eye beef extremely tasty. Good selection of cheese for dessert. Slightly tired looking, and if prices came down slightly might have more customers. Would be a four star pushing five but for the last comment. read more

Steam wand on coffee machine looked it hadn't been cleaned for days Bruschetta was dry and forgettable Too expensive read more

We had dinner at this amazing restaurant last night and loved every dish we ordered. It's kind of a surprise to find a huge restaurant above a lovely cafe. You walk through the cafe to the stairs in the back leading to the restaurant. It's perfect for a crowd since it doesn't seem to be crowded and has lots of seating, in contrast with the restaurants on the main roads. This one is located at the end of a high end shopping alley. The wine selection is amazing and the pasta dishes are so good. We will be back! The service was also exceptional! read more

This is a cafe/restaurant run by the owners of Valvona and Crolla. For anyone who has heard of them before it should let you know the level of quality is of the highest order. I ate here with a friend at lunchtime. They have about a dozen tables downstairs and another six or so upstairs. So it's quite small. They do more cafe lunch type food rather than big evening meals. In the summer they put some tables outside and it is in a bit of a sun trap (weather permitting obviously!). Valvona and Crolla source their own wine from Italy and it is all excellent. read more

Went here while visiting Edinburgh for the Bupa Great Run. My Fiance had her order delivered to the table completely wrong. I was served RAW PORK!! When I took the plate back and said I was leaving I was told by the kitchen it wasn't raw but just undercooked. Really fail to see the difference seeing as this is Pork. I was also shouted at by the kitchen staff. I have eaten in some pretty poor places before but this was the worst by far. There are far better places to eat in Edinburgh and I would definately avoid this place read more