About
What Where Edinburgh is.
Where Edinburgh is a calm, editorial guide to the city: a quieter way to choose Edinburgh places by mood, area, and practical need. It is not a ranking-for-sale business list, a tourist listicle, or a generic local SEO site. Practical starting points, visible caveats, and no fake certainty.
How the guides are made
Chosen from what hundreds of people actually say. Nobody pays to be here. Each place page states its own evidence base: it is shaped by the written reviews we read from a recent public review set, plus public links where available. Written reviews are read and coded into named patterns — such as quiet/calm, staff warmth, return visits, or work-friendliness — with the mention counts shown on the page. Those patterns help route pages into guides; they are a reading aid, not a ranking.
Quotes are verbatim from public Google reviews, attributed as such, and chosen to show the patterns above. Hours and practical details come from public listing data; confirm directly before travelling. Patterns are a first-pass reading of the review set — current opening, accessibility, menu, dietary, and booking details still need direct confirmation.
In plain terms: we looked at 4,326 places and chose 291 for the site. We read 3,690 written reviews.
Editorial boundaries
Ordering remains editorial and practical. A correction, official link, or approved photo helps a page become more useful for readers. It does not create a paid placement, guarantee a wording change, or move a business above another one. Businesses can read the full boundaries on the for-businesses page.
Photos
Openly licensed photo; may not show the current frontage. Owners can send their own via the for-businesses page.
Who is behind it
Where Edinburgh is published by James Simpson, trading as Where Edinburgh. Questions, corrections, and updates: see the contact page.
This page updated: 2026-07-23