The Links

What a lovely place! Great beer garden in the front with a lovely view on Bruntsfield links. The bar inside is equally charming, if not more cosy. Very friendly stuff, and there is a great choice of drinks and food at a fair price. N.b. Free wifi & quiet.

Beautiful hotel. Short 5 – 10 minute walk to old town. Old style class yet modern. It has a beautiful bar and lounge with a fireplace that’s quite cozy.

The Links Hotel has always been for me a stop off when visiting coop cycles next door for a lunch bite, of after work on a Friday in the summer for a beer.
But as I was very early for a meeting on Sunday (10am) required a place nearby that served reasonably priced fare, and only a ten minute walk from the cinema.
With a multitude of coffee shops and breaky bars in the Bruntsfield area I knew about, though would I get into one of the ones bookmarked — could see into them but all seemed full, those early birds who popped in for breakfast!
I kept walking until I remembered having food at the Links a while back before its refurb and knowing full well there was no busy rugby weekend it should be quiet, therefore not forcing me to walk the extra half mile marathon in cold weather to nearest Costa.
Thankfully it was really empty, with only a few residents in and one guy with his laptop. Asking if they had wifi and if I needed a password, the guy serving supplied a password; though not sure if it’s limited one, but try using (2 704 653 058) if prompted at login.
As running a bit late now never had time for a cooked breakfast but plenty for a coffee. I had asked for a white coffee when I came in and was kind of surprised to see it was delivered in a latte type glass. When I quizzed the waitress if it was a latte as not in a normal coffee cup was told yeah it was but she would remake it if ness?
As a meeting within the next thirty minutes was looming just accepted it, but it was luke warm on the cusp of being a cup of cold milk; great in summer, not so good at temps outside of 0 degrees.
But they do have wifi, sport on wide screen tv, and got some work done, with cheap coffee less than £3, so what is the moral, make time for breakfast