The Swing Café at Colinton Parish Church — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

It saddens me that a recent customer in Spring 2025, chose to use Google to criticise The Swing Cafe. As a local community cafe we don't have the commercial barista coffee machines of bigger organisations so prepare drinks and food with as much TLC as we can. Our aim, as volunteers, is, as much as anything, to provide a welcoming and enjoyable experience for our customers. I wish this lady had made her concerns known on the day. Perhaps our colleague had had a bad day or wasn't feeling 100% but hadn't shared their feelings with others. Had we had the opportunity to discuss it, perhaps we could have made things better on the day rather than left the customer with a bad memory of...

Very nice cozy little local cafe in Colinton. It's run by volunteers inside the Colinton Church, who are very nice and friendly. Through the back window of the cafe, you can also see the swing that Robert Louis Stevenson (author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) played on as a child in the 19th century. I had a Hot Chocolate and Homemade Mac and Cheese. For very reasonable prices, I might add. The Hot Chocolate warmed me up in preparation for the Mac and Cheese, which was thick, creamy and delicious. Definitely filled me up. The accompanying Garlic Bread was also warm, crunchy and tasty. Would definitely recommend this...

They don't know how to make barrista lattè. It was a grim lattè. The cake was tiny and not fresh. The man that served me grabbed my bank card out my hand! I told him to give me it back right now!! He did but never appologised and pointed where to put it which I already knew but NEVER take someones bank card off them. Never!!! Won't be back there. They need to learn how to...