Tempting Tattie

Can’t fault this place at all, tatties are delicious with a great selection of fillings. I chose the honey chilli chicken which was to die for. The guy behind the counter was so lovely and had good banter with his customers, good music playing on the radio, definitely felt at home.

Great, no frills baked tattie shop! Just off the High Street!
Like the ones that were pretty much everywhere when I was a teenager (this in fact was one of them! I found out today that it’s been around for 40 years).
It’s been a while since I’ve been, but I went today.
The shop changed hands around 6 months ago and it is the nicest Italian man who now runs it now. A big improvement on the previous owner who wasn’t the happiest of people!
I was there I had haggis, I swear I thought I thought I’d have to be airlifted home, I was that stuffed! Be warned, unless you really do have a HUGE appetite, stick to the small or medium, they are more than enough!
Another reviewer was put off by the thought of tuna and sweetcorn on a potato, but if you think that is odd, try tuna and baked beans! YUM!
Highly recommended!

After a morning climbing in the hills I was in dire need of a tasty bite to eat. Made it up the Royal Mile to the Tempting Tattie just before my energy ran out!
This is a lovely baked potato shop. A large range of various fillings and three sizes of potato depending on your hunger! There are a few stools inside enough for about 8 people. There is also an excellent range of hot and cold drinks and soup. The baked potato I had was yummy together with a lovely cheese filling. The soup was superb value. Thick and satisfying and only 90 pence! Service was fast and special mention of the owner a really charming Italian guy.
Will be back! :-)

Cheap, basic, filling, good.
But jesus don’t get a medium. It’s enough food to choke a hungry hungyr hippo. It was 2 quite sizeable potatoes.
I’m honestly not so sold on putting some of those things (tuna & sweetcorn? really?) in a potato, but you can get just about anything in a potato. And nothing else. And it’s cheap, filling, and you can get a nice pint down the Waverley, a minutes’ walk away.
Yay.

Cheese
Cheese & beans
Cheese & coleslaw
Tuna & sweetcorn
Veggie chilli
Meat chilli
or Haggis?
Whilst I’m a big fan of Tempting Tattie, I have to admit I usually steer clear of most of the flavour combinations and opt for a small or medium spud with simple butter, salt and pepper. I couldn’t eat haggis if you paid me and the cheese that TT serve is so flurescent and cheap looking it hurts my eyes, nevermind my tastebuds. Still, the tatties themselves are pretty good!

Let’s be honest, we’ve all been tempted by a tattie.
Tempting tattie aims to exploit your primeval urge for filled baked potato. This is a better than average, easy lunch option. Like the many sandwich and baguette shops that have sprung up, the idea here is to choose your own filling from a wide range. Here you can choose a small, medium or large portion, costing you around £3.50, £4.20 or £5.00 respectively. Whilst there is a wide range of preselected combinations (basically of two ingredients) you can also choose to creatively construct your very own tattie.
Amongst the other reviewers there seems to be a bit of a debate on the issue of cheese. I have to say I wasn’t that impressed by it either. I’m quite picky about my dairy, and I really don’t like mega-​processed plastic cheese with a greasy film. Unfortunately I’ve come to expect it from most places.
But you don’t really expect fine cuisine from a shop like Tempting Tattie, so if a quick, filling and reasonably priced potato is your cup of tea, try this place.
Incidentally they do also offer cheaper than average but decent paninis and mediocre soup, so its not all tatties at Tatties.

Let me just tell you, Stuart is a fusspot with cheese. He tends to boycott some flavours, to the point where I once made him a cheese toastie for breakfast (last week), and he sent it back (because I used Kraft cheese slices).
So don’t listen to the cheesy lies! I quite liked the cheese in here — it’s not as bad as all that, and it melts nicely. There are some good old fashioned baked potato toppings you can get, including tuna, sweetcorn and some Scottish haggis that the tourists will go nuts over. While I always opt for minimal fillings, I always appreciate how well the potatoes are made in here. They crumble in your mouth like yer gran made them. Lovely stuff. As Stephanie said your nostrils will lead the way, since this place smells delectable from around the block!

Gavin’s got this one right, the cheese is that cheap stuff that all cafes usually use for toasties. Melted, it’s fine, un-​melted you’d be safer chewing on a sock.
One detail that usually wouldn’t be a problem in any other take away, but cheese holds everything together in a good baked potato. A good cheese might have made up for dodgy haggis Gavin had.

This wee tattie shop can be smelt before it’s seen.
It’s like the treat at the top of the hill (albeit a very small hill) and my nostrils were positively dragging me up towards it. We had just had lunch when I first noticed this wee place, but on my second visit I made sure I had plenty room for a baked potato from here.
Good things really do come in small packages, and this place was mobbed when I went, we couldn’t get in the door! After waiting patiently for about 15 minutes we got to the front of the queue. I decided on a macaroni cheese filling for mine (a bit wierd and carbed to the highest, I know) It was massssssive! They must have some sort of mutant allotment where these giganta-​tatties grow! The Mac inside was delicious, but I found myself really struggling to get through it! Safe to say I was full to bursting and very satisfied. Something about a nice baked tattie makes you all warm inside, definitely a home comfort!
Probably the best baked potato shop in the land. Trust me.

The smell of this baked potato shop drives me crazy. You know how some people say that oysters is an aphrodisiac? I would argue that the smells wafting out of Tempting Tattie would weaken the knees of the most upstanding gentleman/​lady.
They have a great selection of fillings — everything you would expect from a baked potato shop. The potatoes themselves are nothing short of perfect — exactly how a tattie should be. I loved the tuna mayo and sweetcorn, it’s really chilled and so works well with the steamy potato. My friend just had cheese and she said it was the best baked potato she’d ever had.

I wouldn’t quite call my 2 experiences at Tempting Tattie a case of hit and miss, but after my frankly tremendous first baked potato, I was a bit miffed that the second wasn’t so much tempting as vomit-​inducing.
I’ll start with the good one. Unbelievably fluffy inside, cooked to perfection with crispy skin, and with a generous helping of (admittedly a bit rubbery) cheddar on the inside. Five stars all the way.
On visit number two, I opted to be a bit aventurous and put a bit of haggis into the mix. Now haggis doesn’t look the most attractive at the best of times, but this tattie quite literally looked liked a dog had been sick on it. It didn’t taste too horrific, but it’s perhaps telling that since this menu mis-​step I’ve never felt tempted to return.
that’s what you get for mixing haggis and cheddar cheese. Once the memory of that schoolboy error fades, I’ll gladly give Tempting Tattie another go.

I was heading for the train station when my belly was rumbling so bad I didn’t think I would make it. Like a watering hole in the desert, Tempting Tattie came to my salvation. Best baked potato ever. Love Love Love.

A good place to go for a healthy baked potato option in the centre of town. The prices are very reasonable and the choice of fillings is superb.

the only time you’ll be disappointed in this plae is when its closed on a sunday morning and you have the worst kind of carb craving hangover known to manso its a baked potato shop, with homemade fillings, a selection of cakey biscuit type things and the odd baguette, the baguette is not odd, its just there aren’t too many of them. they also have soup, haggis and a few hot options like beans or macaroni if the cheese and coleslaw isn’t doing it for you. reasonably priced considering you get an enormous potato and a half. four or five seats inside if its lashing down and you can’t risk getting the tattie wet.