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The purple corner front of Sabzi at 162 Ferry Road, signed Home Cooking and Punjabi Street Food, with benches and pink planters on the pavement.
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Sabzi

A family-run Punjabi restaurant on Ferry Road, cooking from family recipes on a menu that changes every week, with breakfast at the weekend.

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Sabzi is a family-run Punjabi restaurant on Ferry Road, on the edge of Leith, and you can't miss it: the whole corner is painted purple, with Home Cooking and Punjabi Street Food written above the windows.

The cooking comes from family recipes passed down through the generations, and it runs from home-cooked favourites to the classics of a North Indian restaurant. The menu changes every week, with a few favourites that stay on, and there are plenty of vegetarian and vegan dishes. At the weekend it opens for breakfast at ten, a lovely way to start a Saturday, then carries on through lunch into dinner. From Wednesday to Friday it's open for dinner, from five until nine, and it's closed on Monday and Tuesday. Book through OpenTable from its own site, or order for collection or delivery. Children are welcome, and there's a wheelchair-accessible entrance. It's an easy walk along to the Water of Leith.

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Before you go

Open for dinner from Wednesday to Sunday, and from breakfast through to dinner on Saturday and Sunday.

Book through OpenTable, or order for collection or delivery on its own site.

Where
162 Ferry Road, Edinburgh, EH6 4NX.
Breakfast
Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 1pm.
Lunch
Saturday and Sunday, from 1pm.
Dinner
Wednesday to Sunday, 5pm to 9pm.
Closed
Monday and Tuesday.
Booking
Through OpenTable, linked from its own site.
Children
Welcome.
Access
A wheelchair-accessible entrance and seating.
Phone
0131 261 7543

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
5pm–9pm
Thursday
5pm–9pm
Friday
5pm–9pm
Saturday
10am–9pm
Sunday
10am–9pm

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Where it is

On Ferry Road in north Edinburgh, on the edge of Leith, EH6 4NX.

Close byLeith and the Water of Leith.
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