Gorgie, Dalry & Fountainbridge Great food and drink, easy access to some of Edinburgh’s best outdoor spaces, and loads of animals – welcome to Gorgie, Dalry and Fountainbridge, areas to the west of the city centre that have plenty to offer
his part of town has seen big changes in the past ten or 15 years. Fountainbridge’s old industrial buildings have been replaced with new hotels and apparently endless student housing, while Dalry and Gorgie are
slowly feeling the pinch from leafy Bruntsfield and some big-money developments in the West End. Still, these are primarily working-class parts of town, serving diaspora communities from across Europe, Asia and Africa with
shops, cafes, barbers, bars and restaurants. There’s great food and drink to be found, plenty of access to green spaces of a variety of shapes and sizes, and a surprising amount of wildlife on hand.
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