Mums is a fun place to eat. The food is solid and the staff are super friendly. I went with a large group, and we had to split up to fit into the tables. The stag made this really enjoyable because they ran messages back and forth between the two tables. They put a lot of effort in to make sure we had s good time for dinner. Great food, perfect for groups and families, and an overall fun and memorable place to go! read more

Not sure how this place garners such good reviews. Worst burger. Didn't even finish it. And I love pretty much all burgers from gourmet to McD...and I was starving after spending several hours at the amazing National Museum. read more

Awesome café, with friendly staff and delicious comfort food. This café seems to a local favorite, as it was very busy both times we visited, but the staff if friendly and even took time to visit with us. Mums serves up comfort café food, and the favorite seems their bangers and mash. Daily specials for bangers were available and served hot of a pile of mash potatoes. Great place for a good meal and gathering place for friends. read more

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Probably the best comfort food there is for a Scot! Well, me trying to be Scottish lol. Got the bangers and mash and they have different varieties of them and it was absolutely delicious. They probably though I was mad eating everything but it was just so damn tasty! The gravy was splendid. Everything was affordable. Good eats! read more

Save your appetite for another place. Life is too short to waste a meal. The food was average, however Scottish food is better at many other places. Service was friendly and I REALLY wanted to love this place. Good food for the non-adventurous. Not so great for the price and taste. Not fine dining, but not they do have tables. If you don't mind standing, I would recommend a food cart instead. If you want to sit pick another place. If you just landed on the shores of Scotland after being stranded on an island and want a starter meal to get your taste buds started again- - this is your place. Not bad, not great. Truly average. read more

Totally recommended. Great pies and sausages with mash and gravy to choose. Really nice atmosphere. Two peolple for less than £25: A starter to share, one dish each and drinks. read more

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Love the atmosphere very 60s! The food is warming and yummy, had the veggie haggis the portions are very big though and if you're not a true vegetarian you can have chicken gravy with your haggis! There's also a big selection of veggie sausages read more

Mums - Awesome veggie haggis - British Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

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Did not like it at all.... one girl very rude and sarcastic. Not a very relaxing place. Ordered coke and sausage an mash. Quite nice nothing major. She came with the coke and just slammed it down in front of me. Would have been nice if it was Scottish staff. Would not go again can cook better at home. read more

This is a delightful spot for a well priced, quick breakfast. He food is delicious and very reasonable while the pleasant as can be staff serves you. If you are in the area, this is a must do for breakfast or brunch read more

Mums in FANTASTIC! A few locals brought us here for an affordable yet delicious and truly Scottish treat. It's true, the pies are HUGE, but the stew is also great, and the sausage and mash! Yes please! On the day I was there there were eight sausages and more gravy and mash combinations than I could count. I got the traditional pork and the beef & horseradish sausage, the caramelized onion gravy and the garlic mash. It was great! The waitress also highly recommends the chipotle mash. You can have your meal with an Irn Bru, because who wouldn't, and top it off with some cranachan. Go for it! You won't regret it! read more

Three sausages (big ones - and all different flavours - by choice) served in a dish full of carrot and turnip mash. Scrumptious! I have a large appetite and, having walked halfway round Edinburgh tonight, even I couldn't quite finish the mash! The staff are really cheerful and welcoming and I watched as people had to wait to get a table... Franchise please! Am about to attack a Cranachan! read more

Home cooked food doesn't necessarily mean it will be good. I assume the person at home still has to be a good cook. All the food here was pretty bad. Cheap and frozen, It's a bit like their mum did actually go to Iceland. The staff were a bit bizarre too. Really quite unhelpful. read more

Delicious pies just like your non-existing scottish mum would make them. Was in Edinburgh for three days and ate there two times :)

Great experience! Scottish comfort food. I had a lamb and mint sausage and a beef and onion sausage. The lamb was delicious and the rest was good. Comfort food is a particular experience. Just like I don't like grits but southerners love it, I am not a big mashed potato fan. However, my boyfriend had the chipotle cheese mashed potatoes I believe and he loved them. Servers were fun and quirky but it was only two of them so the service was a bit slow. Great prices and a must do! read more

We were vacationing in Scotland from Canada, and attracted to the reviews promising classic comfort food. We were not disappointed! Service was quick and friendly. We each had different versions of bangers and mash - the authenticity of home made comes through. Loved the gravy, but the sausages were the star of the show. Great location just steps from the National Museum of Scotland. read more

I have always avoided Mum's. I saw the picture of the mature student being fed traditional British food by a mother who clearly couldn't bear to let him go. I also imagined the stodgy bland food that awaited me inside. I shuddered at the thought... How wrong was I? £6.95 and I get veggie sausages, mash and gravy. There is a choice between broccoli and tomato and basil sausages, both are homemade. I choose one of each. There is a long mash menu, offerings including Moroccan spiced, tomato and basil and cheese and onion. I opted for courgette and garlic mash. Next comes gravy-there are two veggie options alongside the traditional meat gravy: tomato and thyme and red onion. I went for the tomato and thyme. I came with 5 friends, one of whom ordered the pumpkin and sage pie, two the haggis and the other two chose a meaty version of the bangers and mash. A couple of people also ordered milkshakes. We are all very hungry but our food took quite a long time to arrive. My food finally arrived, a generous serving of mash with two veggie sausages on top. The gravy is served separately in little pots. All in all, a relatively cheap meal which was comforting but also a little experimental introducing exotic flavours to a traditional dish. I was impressed to see quite a number of very different veggie options in a casual restaurant serving traditional fare. read more

Came here for lunch, and it had a kind of diner/comfort food feel. Plenty of seating for groups of 2s or 4s. We had a group of 6, but they were able to seat us pretty quickly. My bf ordered their fish and chips, and I ended up having dessert for lunch --treacle and date pudding! The fish and chips were good, although I'm not a fan of mushy peas. My friends enjoyed their sausage and mash orders, and I loved my dessert! At first, I wasn't too sure about the choice, because I normally don't eat dates, and I was looking for more of a tart/pie. But the waitress recommended it, so I decided to try it out. I'm so glad I did! It was delicious, still warm, and very rich, so it paired nicely with the ice-cream. If you're looking for dessert at Mums, try the treacle and date pudding! read more

The shakes are amazing so start off with that! The Reese peanut butter one and crackle one are good! I got the fish pie which was alright but my friends got the venison pie and another got the stake ale pie which was better! The pastry is freshly baked on top of the pie and is super crispy and flaky! The wait however was about 30 min and the service was slow but the waitresses had really fun attitudes! read more

Good food, but I was expecting a bit more. We were looking for something cosy and tasty as it was very cold and we've been whole day outside. We went for a mash with sausage and gravy, and macaroni cheese. Coke was tasting like water and food were bit bland and tasteless. Overall good atmosphere, really nice staff and funky toilets but I wouldn't be happy if my mum cooks like that. read more

Cute shop. It is a diner where they have a decent size menu. We ordered the sausage and mash. They have different types of sausage you can choose from. The mash was made from real potatoes. They have different types of mash and also three types of gravy. The people at Mums was also very nice. It was a very enjoyable place for a meal. read more

I arrived into Edinburgh really early in the morning so I thought I'd do something I never do- go out for breakfast! I'm so glad I did! First of all, I got a really warm welcome when I came in. I sat down and saw the most beautiful breakfast option one can ever see- eggs benedict! So I ordered that and a tea. It was absolutely delicious. Now as for service- the girl who was working was amazing! So perky and happy! Then when she found out I was visiting Edinburgh, she got me a map and made loads of cool suggestions about what I could do, even drawing how to get there! I did take her advice on one of the walks, as it was an unseasonably warm and sunny day for Edinburgh. A great experience from start to finish! I'll be back next time I'm in Edinburgh for sure! read more

Sometimes it's neither the sights nor the monuments a city has to offer but the food and the delightful people. I had the friendliest server, Paulie, who served an amazing shepards pie and took the time to chat it up with me to make me feel at home in a city halfway across the world from me. It's a very cozy little joint with the best service (especially considering it is not dependent on tips as I am used to!) I will definitely return to Mum's the day I return to Edinburgh. read more

What a gem of a place!!! Excellent food and a great environment. Tried the sausage of the day "lamb and mint" it was just delicious.

This restaurant was conveniently located behind the National Museum of Scotland and it wasn't crowded at all. I tried the sausages and mash (Mum's herby pork) with caramelized onion gravy and garlic and mushroom mash. It's really nice that you can choose from so many flavors of mash, sausage, and gravy. The mash was lovely. The sausages were actually less yummy than I expected. My husband had a burger with fries (chips). I thought his burger was dry and not very good. The chips were just so-so. I'd avoid the burgers. But the prices here are generally reasonable and portions very filling. I'd like to come back and try more of the menu. read more

I was here last Wednesday sometime around lunch. The portions are generous (I'm American, so you know I mean it), and one can't complain about the prices (especially for the rolls-- wow.) The music was interesting (obscure 80's hits) and became a conversation starter between myself and my half-starved friend. The waitress was great. Love to return here. read more

Such a fun place. The food was amazing and worth the short wait. We sat with another couple from Italy so we could be seated sooner, and it was really nice. read more

So I finally made it to Mum's and I'm happy to report that it lived up to expectations. Essentially you should know whether or not you're going to like this place from how it is advertised... it's a comfort food joint with a retro, almost diner type, edge... what you see is what you get so if the idea of a few sausages and mash doesn't do it for you then it may not be your kinda place. (They do have some other mains, the haggis seemed a popular choice our particular day, but the sausages and mash are the primary stars.) The good news is in the staggering amount of choice for said stars... I had a hard time trying to decide what to get, eventually going with the Mexican Hot (yum!) and a Pork, Garlic, and Thyme Sausage atop of a Mushroom and Garlic Mash with Caramelised Onion Gravy. The Mexican Hot was excellent, definitely on my list to order again if it happens to be available... the Pork, Garlic, and Thyme Sausage was actually quite good, but probably the most like sausages I've had elsewhere... if you've ever gotten a Tesco Finest Pork & XYZ sausage, it was along those lines... no fault to them however, I really should have realised this from the name to be honest. A friend of mine got the Beef and Guinness Sausage which was excellent and left me a smidge jealous. (Food envy is definitely a real thing!) The mash was as described and quite good as well... I personally will work my way through another type next time, but out of curiosity as much as anything else. The service was friendly, but just a tad slower than I would have liked... not slow enough to be called bad however, and when you were being attended to it was very personal and friendly which I adore. The place itself works for what it is and eerily reminded me of somewhere you would find in Little Five Points, Atlanta... that's certainly not a bad thing, but it had made me wished I had dressed a bit cooler that particular day as each of the other customers pretty much looked like they could have been in a band and shamefully I was sans waistcoat this particular day. They only have a few beers on tap, but the two choices we partook in that day were winners for us... one being the Thistly Cross Whisky Cider, which really caught the three of us off guard in how good it was, with the other being a Tempest Red Rye beer which was also extremely good, both complimenting the meals nicely. We didn't have desserts, but what went by did look extremely good and despite not being able to have them (blasted lactose!), I really liked that they had milkshakes on the menu. One of the best bits about this place to me is that the prices match the food... you're not going to pay an arm and a leg to eat here despite the "cool" factor. As a last note for those that this applies to... they actually had several veggie sausages on offer as well, some of which seeming as adventurous in composure as their meaty counterparts, so don't be scared to stop in here with your meat hungry friends. (Aside from that they had the compulsory Veggie Haggis as well should sausages not be your thing.) So there you have it... good comfort food at good prices, some days you really couldn't ask for more. read more

Been hearing about this place for some time. I *want* to love it but the service is a bit patchy. The food was nice. Lovely, in fact, and locally sourced which is awesome. The prices are on the high side for what you get. I had veggie sausage with chipotle and cheese mash. 7 quid and not a vast portion, either. I ordered drinks and they never came. Had to get up and go find my waiter who was busy sending a very important text. I think this place has a great concept and obviously good cooks in the back. Sort out the front end service and you've got a winner. The kids menu is pretty great. Will go again. My friends had the pies and these were spectacular. read more

Stopped in for breakfast this morning before our train left. The servers were nice and attentive. The food was just ok. The pancakes were burnt and the bacon was undercooked. I would find somewhere else for breakfast next time I'm in town. read more

Worst breakfast place. Don't waste your time here. The place is dirty. Food is awful and the service is so slow!

Being from the southern United States where great comfort food can be found in delicious abundance, I wasn't sure what to expect from this place. I was greeted by a nice warm atmosphere and an incredibly nice staff. The place really does make you feel like you're at home. As I was looking at the menu there were so many dishes that caught my eye but then I saw the pumpkin and sage pie and I can never pass up anything with pumpkin in it. The pie itself was quite big and it also came with a side of vegetables and chips. The flavors of the pumpkin and sage went well together and neither overpowered the other. I went home stuffed as could be. This is a great place to go for some delicious comfort food and one I will definitely go to again. read more

We had sausage & mash and fish & chips. The food was good, but the service was atrocious. Both waiters who serviced us were rude, abruptly cut us off multiple times, and the kitchen took a very long time. read more

My husband and I went to Mums while we were in Scotland, over a month ago! WE STILL TALK ABOUT IT. I wants me sum MUMS :) there is this waitress there that will sit down with you and discuss the foods and drinks and how they all pair, it seemed like her world and it was just LOVELY...best waitress ever. read more

This cafe is authentic and comforting with genuine, kind, enthusiastic and funny owners. Their passion is worn on their sleeve and the food is great, just like going home to Mum's! Objective achieved because we will be back again. One of the most memorable meals I've had in terms of interaction with the owner and she made our day and welcomed us warmly to Edinburgh. The deluxe hot chocolate is to die for! Highly recommended!! read more

Not sure what all the fuss is about...maybe we came on an off day. This place had so much potential to be good. Great music, great service, but cold food... Nobody wants to come in from the gloom to eat cold eggs. :( read more

Extremely Poor Quality Food: Came here because of the great reviews and was wanting something substantial for breakfast. My girlfriend and I ordered two plates of pancakes and one eggs Benedict. The pancakes were cold and had cold syrup poured over them - not to mention they were hardly fluffy and tasted as if they were made the night before. The eggs Benedict wasn't any better. The eggs hardly looked real and was coated in a sauce that is sure to upset the hardiest of stomachs. Overall if you're looking to spend the next two days running to the bathroom and a cramping stomach then this is your place. Oh, also the manager showed up 5-10 minutes after their scheduled opening time leaving a group of customers outside waiting to be let in. read more

Mum's, simply awesome. It does what it says in the tin! Lovely, warming home made comfort food, a treasure in such a cosmopolitan city. Food produced exactly as I remember from home, just like my mam used to make. Highly recommended and reasonable prices.... read more

This place was pretty good. It's definitely comfort food, so it's heavy and kinda greasy, as expected. We started with the cauliflower cheese, which was really good. My friend is vegetarian, so she was really excited to see vegetarian bangers and mash on the menu. However, she was disappointed by the mash and gravy and said it tasted really stale; like it had been sitting out all day. I came literally for the mac and cheese and it was pretty good. I could've done without the chips it came with because they weren't really anything special, but the mac was creamy and did it's job. Nothing we had was particularly outstanding but it was decent and definitely comforting. read more

Fabulous comfort food. Lively atmosphere. Nice choice of craft beers and ciders. The sausage and mash mix and match was terrific. Service incredibly friendly! read more

Loved this place! Friendly staff, reasonable prices and tasty food. I tried the bean burger and it was filling and delicious! Would definitely go back. read more