Indaba Tapas - Edinburgh

The dishes I had were excellent, and a good selection of aromen and textures, even if they were only from the vegetarian options. meat fish options were also very pleasant. service cut, but friendly.

South Africans or the rainbow nation have a large and diverse food culture. there are 9 official bantu languages plus English and African. eating is a melting pot of Dutch, French, Indian and Malaysian influences. in South Africa there are three different cooks. the first is afrikaans cooking, which is very influenced by the Dutch settlers who were joined by the French huguenots. African foods usually consist of red meat cooked on the braai (berewors, kebabs, steaks, paps,) potatoes and/or rice and vegetables. desserts are rusks, milktart and koeksister.

After I grew up in South Africa, I was thrilled when I was invited to go with this new South African/Portuguese hybrid restaurant. this place is hidden on a side street in greatcross and unfortunately the decor does nothing for it inside and outside. if I were looking for something to eat and go, this place happened, I would certainly not stop. it reminds me of a decorating street side shebeen in South Africa with petty colors, tired interior, bad paintings on the wall and chalkboards covered with terrible scribbles of drinks and dessert menus. (But maybe that's good intentionally, I'd like to think anyway! . Don't let you get away from here. on a strange way, for all his bad points on...read more

Delicious. I recommend the veggie options, simple dishes executed delicious, dessert was very decadent while the tapas were healthy. I had never really haggis, but the Veggie version was delicious! great selection of beer. beautiful decor and very welcoming owners.

Usually when we drunkenly harrass restaurants for food at half 9 on a Monday night, they're about to close and we're the only customers. I thought the same would be true for Indaba as it's on a side-street in Tollcross, but there were a couple of other tables happily tucking in. I ordered two glasses of Chenin Blanc (although we didn't need it) and we got on with ordering our tapas.