The city has a wealth of restaurants, cafes and bars to suit nearly every palate and pocket.
Some eateries become well-established, others do not last so long and new ones always seem to be springing up.
Here is a gallery of pictures from the early 1980s, selected from the Evening News archives, showing some of the favourite restaurants in Edinburgh at that time.
Take a look and get a taste of what it was like eating out in the Capital four decades ago.
5. Flappers Restaurant
Scottish broadcaster, actor, journalist and writer Fyfe Robertson with Bruno Raffaelli at Flappers Restaurant Edinburgh in April 1981. | TSPL Photo: Bill Newton
6. The Verandah
Interior of The Verandah Indian restaurant in Dalry Road Edinburgh, February 1981. | TSPL Photo: Ian Porteous
7. Denzlers restaurant
Customers eating at Denzlers restaurant in Queen Street, Edinburgh, June 1983. | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout
8. No 10 restaurant
Tom Alexander and (right) Jack Alexander, Scottish entertainers the Alexander Brothers, outside the No 10 restaurant in Edinburgh, June 1983. | TSPL Photo: Albert Jordan