Mimi's Little Bakehouse - Lauriston Castle — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

My boyfriend and I decided to pay Mimi’s bakehouse a visit on a Saturday afternoon. The dirty tables outside were offputting before we even entered the cafe. We came in around 1.30 pm, attracted by the offer of all day brunch menu on your website. To our disappointment there was no food left and the coffee we ordered was flat.

Even though we wanted to sit inside, the coffee would be served in takeaway cups if we didnt specifically insist to have them in mugs, which seemed to be an inconvenience. When asked for some cream for the scone, the server said there wasnt any, even though the cream cannister was right next to her and the cream was served only because I pointed ot out.

The cafe was not busy and there were 3 employees, which was more than enough to sort these issues out.

Unfortunately, we will not be coming back to this place, which is a shame, as we liked the previous experiences in other...

just sitting outside having had the worst experience ever. ordered a fruit scone which unfortunately was too dry to eat therefore took it back in to tell staff. My partner had cheese scone which was fine so i asked to swap for cheese scone was told to pay for new scone!!!! as they couldnt serve the fruit scone to another customer. 😱😱😱. eventually lady with dark hair on a pony tail said ok on the house. she then brought scone to table and litterally slammed it on the table without looking at me. I did challange her as it was the most rude thing ever. shame as I will never stop at tgeir cafe ever again. She should be ashed and management should do something about it, totally un acceptable. I...

Staff are usually friendly. There is a nice range of drinks and cakes. Just occasionally the cakes taste a bit stale like they were from the day before (in some ways I'd rather that than think of the food waste) but when you get a fresh one you can taste the difference, they are lovely. Is us set in the grounds of Lauriston which is a lovely setting for a nice stroll. The only issue is the cars that Mimis had attracted to Lauriston, there is a lack of parking and the cars and pedestrians share the entrance so just plead to drivers to slow down and respect the...