The Gateway Restaurant

The Gateway Café is a great spot to meet for anything from coffee and cake all the way to a full meal. Set just inside the West Gate of the Royal Botanics in Edinburgh it's a great place to escape the hustle and bustle of the city. I always come back from here feeling refreshed.

Don't go! £14.50 for a sausage roll with lettuce on the side! £8.50 for a small sandwich! £7.50 for a small bag of chips and a drink! And, when we went to order, nothing we wanted was in stock! My portion of soup was tiny and left me hungry! The coffee didn't taste good - the espresso shot was clearly burned. Someone isn't training the baristas well. When my friend ordered a pot of tea, she was told they were out of teapots and the server impatiently said 'oh, I could check out the back, if you want, we might have some clean ones' - this shouldn't be an inconvenience, and someone should be restocking the teapots so the checkout people don't have to? How can a place look so gorgeous yet be so poorly stocked with teapots? WHO PICKED SUCH SMALL SOUP BOWLS? WHY IS A SAUSAGE ROLL £14.50?