Cafe Camino

Café Camino is another highly impressive one to add to the list of good quality church and/​or community cafes, of which Edinburgh has a rather large number. I really enjoyed the soup, on this visit, and it certainly seems to pack in a diverse crowd of punters.
Overall, we said: «I enjoyed Café Camino. There’s room for improvement, but I still thought it was a good little place. It’s handy for me, so I’ll definitely be back and would be happy to point you in the direction of the place.»

Café Camino is everything I like.
Reasonably priced food, though a complete Ronseal deal — I ordered scrambled eggs and toast and I got scrambled eggs on toast, a nice relaxed atmosphere, happy people, table sharing, the list goes on.
Attached to the cathedral, there is a post-​mass rush on a Sunday which is actually alright as the place is big enough and, like I said, table sharing means no one is left without a chair. The food is not WOW, at all, but it’s decent. The place is clean and a bit canteenish.
There;s not much else to say unfortunately, just that it’s a nice place for a coffee.

Waiting for someone coming out of Mass? Want a refreshment after the service yourself? Even on your lunch hour or need a pre /​post shopping spree cuppa? Café Camino is a lovely place to stop by for whatever reason.
When you’re in the café you forget it has any affiliation to the church at all and they certainly don’t push anything down your throat so please don’t be put off.
Whether you want an 11’s snack, lunch or an afternoon coffee then this place is a good shout. They do good coffees without them being the price of Starbucks so it is a clear winner. The soup is always a good option and you get a good, hearty bowl of homemade goodness. The cakes are divine and the smoothies are a particular favourite of mine as they have lots of combinations available.
Nice place to sit and unwind.

«3 nibbles and a bottle of wine for £15»… what’s not to love? Well a few things, actually. My friend and I were lured by this blackboard promising booze and light bites to pick at, although I have to say it wasn’t as good as we’d thought it was going to be.
Yes, we were lucky enough to be here on one of the few days when it was warm enough to sit outside. But rather than emulating the mediterranean way of doings things, sitting outside nibbling olives and sipping wine whilst watching the world go by, we sat outside nibbling olives and drinking wine whilst watching the rush-​hour traffic build up courtesy of the adjacent roadworks. Not ideal.
Still, you can’t say that £15 for a bottle of wine and 3 small tapas-​sized plates of nibbles isn’t good value for money. It’s just that I think I’d rather spend the same money on getting some nice wine and nibbles to enjoy in my flat. Even watching TV whilst we sipped and nibbled would be an improvement on the roadworks.

Café Camino is part of St Mary’s Cathedral, where I once went to a party and drank copious amounts of Martini, and then came to the decision that this would not be my life partnered drink of choice. I’m still working on that one, but meanwhile, I’ll tell you about the café, which I actually only noticed recently for some reason.
There is lots of seating here, and a lot of lunchtime food choices, so lunch hours here are very busy, because it’s also all very reasonably priced. The soup I had here was yummy, and so were the Jaffa Cakes, but I suppose that’s irrelevant, as was my nostalgia at the beginning of this review. There are also amazing cakes, bonus, and free Wi-​Fi, even larger bonus. If you’re a nosey parker people watcher, you can nose away to your peeping eyes’ delight here, as this is a busy part of town with lots of wandering individuals.

Hmmm… Every good thing about Café Camino seems to be able to be canceled out by circumstances. It’s got a bustling atmosphere and is always pretty rammed but being run by the Cathedral it has that church-​hally feel that reminds me of being in the girl guides. On one of our better days you can sit outside, which is always a plus but you have a choice at looking at constant roadworks, the side of John Lewis or all the tramps that hang about there with their dogs and cans of Stella…