Ed’s Easy Diner

We went here last night for my husbands birthday dinner. 3 of us at the table
Me: the pickier eater
Our friend: the one with the more cleansed pallet
My husband: will quite happily eat almost anything.
So you have 3 different types of people when it comes to food attending this.
The American style was definitely there booths, juke box at table (which we found really cool. Very little selection but still fun) and so on. The service I
Will say now was really good I thought the waitresses serving us were really nice, fun and made sure they understood our order.
My husband got a hotdog with cheese and bacon on top
Me the burger with crispy bacon and cheese fries
And my friend a classic burger with chips and onion rings.
The good thing about all the food combined: the bacon was actually crispy which a lot of places don’t usual do well.
Everything else tho !!! The cheese on the hotdog and the fries was disgusting! Cheese out of a can. Squishy cheese. Tasted like plastic and smelled awful ! The hod dog my husband said the bun was bad quality and it didn’t taste great at all. Our friend said the food was very much bellow mediocre! And she knows good food !
So without touching the food very much we ordered deserts. The best part! My husband wanted to order the pancakes but new he would be disappointed with them due to the meal we just had so he for a coke float and me and our friend for milkshakes. Yes they were amazing they tasted soooo good and you got a lot of out it which you can refill yourself.
The bill was £56.something. No way worth what we got in the slightest. Was repeatedly compered to ikia food. Especially the chips and hot dog.
Reminding everyone the service was really good but we just couldn’t get over how bad the food was. I wanted to put 1 ½ star but it only allows full ones so 2 stars. One for the American feel of the place and 1 for the service.
My advice. Only go for a milkshake

When I first saw Ed’s Diner, my attention was roused. A bit of American kitsch… there’s something you don’t see much of in Edinburgh. Could be good.
So when my sister decided to hold her birthday dinner here, I couldn’t pass it up… she would’ve killed me!
It certainly looks the part. Shiny chrome fittings, red and white leather, Dime-​Selector juke boxes at every booth… that actually work. Very cool. The playlist is as you expect, a mash up of all the best the 50s had to offer. The staff in turn are lovely and attentive.
Unfortunately this is where the positives end. The food, I am somewhat sad to report, is rather guff.
I chose a simple Classic Hotdog, topped with onions and cheese sauce, with Onion Rings and Ed’s Famous Cheese Fries. Now when the hotdog you receive needs to be manually held together because the bun is of such poor quality that it has split across the bottom, thus becoming more of a circus acrobat attraction than a meal, you know you’re in trouble. The sheer effort in trying to — cleanly — keep bun, dog, onions and cheese sauce together, frankly, wasn’t worth it. On top of this the meat was bland, grainy and downright bad; the onions were fine but the cheese sauce… more on the cheese sauce in a minute.
The onion rings as a side were perfectly acceptable. However I would guess that was because they were not fresh and possibly packet-​bought and chucked in a deep fryer. And as for Ed’s Famous Cheese Chips, well… the fries were average, just average, and the cheese sauce… how to describe it??? It was as if someone took a packet of dairylea slices and melted them down, drizzled them over the plate. It was messy, it was plasticky, it was tasteless. If those chips are famous, I’m Howard the bloody Duck!
To top it all off I put a pound into one of their jukeboxes (20p a song) but did my playlist ever materialise? Did it hell. But the money goes to charity so not overly fussed on that… just really fancied a bit of Burning Love!!!
On the whole, I won’t be back and I won’t recommend. Sister seemed to like it though, so at least it didn’t ruin her birthday… Quack!

Good service. Good food although I was not keen on the burger. Milkshakes good. Real American diner feel. One bad thing I would say that staff should not be eating on the shop floor even with there own clothes on then 2 minutes later you see them back in uniform and staff shouting about there time of across the diner. Oh yes and ask for gratuities when you pay with a card. That’s ok in America but come on you get a weekly wage