Edinburgh Retro: 25 great pictures of restaurants and cafes in the 1960s and 1970

Tastes and habits have changed since the 1960s and 1970s - and today’s cafes and restaurants are very different from the eateries of those days.

But here is a selection of pictures from the Evening News archives to take you back to the Edinburgh of five or six decades ago.

Scroll through the black and white photos to get a flavour of the Capital’s restaurants and cafes in the 1960s and 1970s and the atmosphere of the times.

5. Henderson's, Hanover Street

Interior of Henderson's Salad Bowl restaurant in Edinburgh in April 1979 | TSPL Photo: Alex Brown

The Mons Meg restaurant/steak house in Princes Street Edinburgh, April 1979. | TSPL Photo: Alex Brown

Interior of Flappers restaurant in Edinburgh, April 1979. | TSPL Photo: Alex Brown

Dante Lannie, of the Edinburgh catering family, outside his cafe/restaurant in Marshall Street, Edinburgh, October 1970. | TSPL Photo: Jack Crombie