Dantes Restaurant

Since it opened in 1998, the restaurant has become a favourite meeting place for local people, as well as increasingly attracting customers from further afield with its superb menu and relaxed, friendly atmosphere. It's role in the Colinton community is unique. Dante Margiotta and his family were a Colinton institution long before they opened the restaurant. They came to the area from their native Italy nearly fifty years ago, and built a highly successful newsagent and confectionery business on the premises where the restaurant now stands.

More recently, they also ran a thriving delicatessen in the same street. Their long involvement at every level in the life of the village, and the numerous friendships that have resulted, are what lend Dante's Restaurant the beguiling feel of a true community resource.