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.

25. Edinburgh Zoo's self-service restaurant

Two chimpanzees test the facilities at the new self-service restaurant at Edinburgh Zoo in March 1972. | TSPL Photo: Dick Ewart