David Bann.

"A long-running Old Town vegetarian dining room where the cooking is inventive rather than worthy."

Tucked just off the Royal Mile on St Mary's Street, David Bann has been Edinburgh's benchmark vegetarian restaurant for two decades. The room is dark, calm and grown-up, and the menu roams widely — Thai-spiced fritters, beetroot and goats cheese pudding, sharp seasonal salads — with vegan and gluten-free versions of most dishes handled without fuss.