Old Town, Pizza - Restaurant Guide

2023 Review: This “buzzing and reliable” home-grown homage to New York-style pizza sells its “great” versions by the slice – “the slices are enormous and one will suffice most people” – in four outlets with a “quirky vibe and music (American rock and hip-hop)”. “Their motto is branded on every cup and menu: ‘Death Before Dominos’!”

Baking for one minute at 470°C to create aerated, blistered crusts is part of the formula of Ivan Georgiev’s Leith hotspot, lauded by local aficionados of Neapolitan pizza since its opening in 2019. In March 2025, he also established a pitch at ESF (‘Edinburgh Street Food’).

2023 Review: “Very good food and friendly staff” inspire early applause for this two-storey opening, bang slap opposite the huge new St James Quarter. In a March 2022 review, The Scotsman’s Gaby Soutar declared herself a fan too – the “casual menu is quite large, and healthy-ish, with all-day breakfast and brunch dishes”: “Noon does the casual dining thing pretty well, and is exerting its own small, but efficient, gravitational pull” as “a good alternative for those who don’t want to find themselves in the St James Quarter again”.