http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cramond to Porty boardwalk/promenade en Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:43:58 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-384864 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:18:05 +0000 chdot 384864@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>DOCKSIDE HOMES: Forth Ports been given the go-ahead to build up to 250 homes on the dockside near the First Stage film studio in Leith. The four blocks of up to six storeys will feature one, two and three-bedroom apartments, including a third classed as affordable, as part of the wider Harbour 31 masterplan. The development plans also include a Bath Street to Ocean Way bus route, cycle lane and footpath connecting the site to wider developments of Leith docks. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/the-battle-to-save-marionville-fire?triedRedirect=true" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/the-battle-to-save-marionville-fire?triedRedirect=true</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-384468 Tue, 26 May 2026 19:18:38 +0000 wishicouldgofaster 384468@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The food is overpriced and terrible. I suggested via their website that they should consider doing bacon rolls but I got a 'we know what we're doing response' back. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-384467 Tue, 26 May 2026 18:46:56 +0000 gembo 384467@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Stickman - The Pitt getting good reviews tho some feel pricey for Granton. The proprietor of the cafe is called Fast Eddie. He dont like bike lanes. Indeed he followed us into the side street when we were campaigning with weans to save the Kingsknowe lane in his big motor and was peeved when he couldnt get out. I thought he lived in the street but apparently just real life trolling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-384462 Tue, 26 May 2026 15:01:39 +0000 Frenchy 384462@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Stickman - I don't know who owns it, but it apparently hasn't changed hands in over 10 years: <a href="https://scotlis.ros.gov.uk/property-summary/MID64622/1" rel="nofollow">https://scotlis.ros.gov.uk/property-summary/MID64622/1</a></p> <p>Additionally, I noticed TripAdvisor saying "#294 of 324 Coffee &amp; Tea Spots in Edinburgh" and got curious about numbers 295 through 324. It turns out that TripAdvisor includes locations which haven't been rated/reviewed in those 324 and, as far as I can tell, Boardwalk is the lowest rated of all cafes which anyone has rated/reviewed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-384460 Tue, 26 May 2026 14:28:02 +0000 Arellcat 384460@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The TripAdvisor reviews are incredible, both in their content and consistency. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-384458 Tue, 26 May 2026 13:54:42 +0000 Stickman 384458@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is the building still owned and leased by the council? If so, can it impose any conditions on renewal of the lease? </p> <p>The Pitt is a far more pleasant place to go than Mad Eddie’s. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-384457 Tue, 26 May 2026 13:47:19 +0000 ejstubbs 384457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186525-d9794944-Reviews-Boardwalk_Beach_Club-Edinburgh_Scotland.html">Linky.</a> Interesting quote: "this place has the potential to be a really good and busy cafe but for some reason the owner has taken the me against the world mentality" - not just in relation to the cafe, or so I gather.</p> <p>The reviews on Google aren't great either.</p> <p>And yet: <a href="https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26048702.edinburghs-seaside-beach-cafe-crowned-best-scotland/" rel="nofollow">https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26048702.edinburghs-seaside-beach-cafe-crowned-best-scotland/</a> However, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/comments/1suc3kz/boardwalk_beach_club_in_cramond_crowned_best_café/">this Reddit thread</a> hints quite strongly at the goings-on behind this sort of thing. (And that's not the only Reddit thread <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/comments/1q3swaf/boardwalk_beach_clubis_this_even_legal/">critical of the place</a>.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-384443 Tue, 26 May 2026 07:36:32 +0000 gembo 384443@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A rejuvenation of a semi-relevant thread to point people in the direction of the TripAdvisor page for the Boardwalk Cafe. The people are not happy with this tawdry bauble. 2.2/5 stars kind of amazing how it survives [no competition] 325 people saying it is Terrible. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-363721 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:13:03 +0000 chdot 363721@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>and public realm with a new walkway and cycle tracks along the water line</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/shopping/edinburgh-ocean-terminal-to-be-partially-demolished-after-council-approves-multi-million-transformation-plan-3852807" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/shopping/edinburgh-ocean-terminal-to-be-partially-demolished-after-council-approves-multi-million-transformation-plan-3852807</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-311725 Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:06:09 +0000 wingpig 311725@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fuerzabruta was in a tent opposite Ocean Ternimal, though that was possibly Fringe rather than EIF. Faust was in one of the exhibition halls at the Ingliston RHC, which was non-central but less convenient to get to, though at least I still lived in the city centre and only needed one bus. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-311723 Wed, 31 Jul 2019 08:59:20 +0000 chdot 311723@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/edinburgh-festivals/edinburgh-festival-director-eyes-waterfront-venues-to-ease-pressure-on-city-centre-1-4974053" rel="nofollow">https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/edinburgh-festivals/edinburgh-festival-director-eyes-waterfront-venues-to-ease-pressure-on-city-centre-1-4974053</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-308230 Thu, 06 Jun 2019 09:26:01 +0000 chdot 308230@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/disused-granton-train-station-could-be-restored-as-part-of-waterfront-regeneration-1-4941971" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/disused-granton-train-station-could-be-restored-as-part-of-waterfront-regeneration-1-4941971</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-290528 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:04:57 +0000 Snowy 290528@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When I was a boy we used to play on the abandoned railways around 5-ways, and the abutments for the east-west bridge were still there although the bridge was long gone at that point. Great fun for climbing. It was overgrown to the point of being impenetrable and you certainly had to watch out for dubious characters roaming around. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-290494 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:12:29 +0000 acsimpson 290494@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>gembo, that is the right 5 ways. If you have never taken the route north to the shore the I suggest a quick exploration. It's not a long path and shortly after leaving 5 ways it heads into the Trinity Tunnel.</p> <p>fimm, Five ways is indeed closer to Leith. It is this junction:</p> <p><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/55.97413/-3.20265">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/55.97413/-3.20265</a><br /> It's the junction between Chancealot, Goldenacre, Trinity, Ferry Road and Hawthorvale paths. (Although I'll confess to not having known all those names before) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-290486 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:38:12 +0000 fimm 290486@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Five Ways" isn't the junction near to Craigleith retail park, though, is it? It is much, much futher towards Leith. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-290485 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:31:33 +0000 chdot 290485@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“What tunnel?”</p> <p>You cannot be serious. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=7#post-290467 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:45:19 +0000 cb 290467@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Further north surely? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-290454 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:18:17 +0000 neddie 290454@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wonder why they didn't continue the Barnton branch line further out West to Cramond? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-290452 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:05:46 +0000 gembo 290452@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What tunnel?</p> <p>My five ways is chance lot and goldenacre paths meeting the leith to d mains line (which is two of the five) and the fifth being the line north to the shore. But thinking thus thru that is east of Granton by a good bit.</p> <p>Is this the right five ways?</p> <p>The Rodney street tunnel? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-290445 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 08:24:14 +0000 chdot 290445@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“So unsurprisingly five ways was the branchline junction”</p> <p>Not as such. </p> <p>Two lines crossed here, one was on a bridge. </p> <p>This was removed and major earthworks ensued to make Five Ways. (Which is why the slope towards the tunnel is so steep.)</p> <p>The junction was where the lines from Scotland Yard and the line through Powderhall joined and continued to Granton. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-290438 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 07:22:18 +0000 gembo 290438@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So unsurprisingly five ways was the branchline junction and the line is obvious as it is the cycle path to silver knowes, ending round the back of Tesco at d mains</p> <p>As with Balerno the high school at Barnton built in railway land. Defunct Caledonian railway legacy to cycling and school kids </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-290428 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 22:24:09 +0000 chdot 290428@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“There used to be a train station at Granton, did the line go along to Crammond?”</p> <p>Not as such.</p> <p><a href="https://www.railscot.co.uk/Barnton_Branch/index.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.railscot.co.uk/Barnton_Branch/index.php</a></p> <p>(Via new Royal High) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-290427 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 22:09:54 +0000 gembo 290427@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Crammond has historically been a weekend holiday destination (miss Jean Brodie etc). The walk by the river down to the path to the island is well promenaded. But was the prom along to granton ever a place of Victorian promenading?</p> <p>I was down at Granton campus the other day and the plans to create 4000 houses there continue also national gallery and museum outposts. </p> <p>There used to be a train station at Granton, did the line go along to Crammond? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-290420 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:17:08 +0000 Snowy 290420@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>...a former head of Visit Britain had been to the cafe and admired the views. “She couldn’t believe she had never seen a postcard of the area. In any other country this would be a hugely recognised thoroughfare.”</em></p> <p>Indeed.</p> <p>But where will people PARK? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-290396 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:28:58 +0000 chdot 290396@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/business/boardwalk-vision-revived-for-edinburgh-waterfront-1-4655848" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/business/boardwalk-vision-revived-for-edinburgh-waterfront-1-4655848</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-286765 Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:05:07 +0000 chdot 286765@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>ART WALK PORTY 2018 </p> <p>The Art Walk returns to Portobello this year from 30 August to 9 September. Our programme will centre on the 'Pleasure Ground' looking at Portobello's seaside entertainment history, of music halls, bandstands and other lost spaces of this period. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.artwalkporty.co.uk" rel="nofollow">https://www.artwalkporty.co.uk</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-286646 Tue, 10 Jul 2018 08:14:14 +0000 chdot 286646@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>He has put forward the idea as part of a drive to revive efforts to create a continuous high-quality promenade to help link the shoreline communities of Cramond, Silverknowes, Granton and Leith.</p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/calls-for-angel-of-the-forth-to-be-built-near-forth-bridges-1-4766343" rel="nofollow">https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/calls-for-angel-of-the-forth-to-be-built-near-forth-bridges-1-4766343</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-278816 Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:36:55 +0000 chdot 278816@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://edinburghlivinglandscape.org.uk/2018/03/city-turned-back-sea/" rel="nofollow">https://edinburghlivinglandscape.org.uk/2018/03/city-turned-back-sea/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-271751 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:58:21 +0000 chdot 271751@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Eddie Tait, who opened the Boardwalk Beach Club cafe in Marine Drive, Silverknowes, in 2016 – its name inspired by Sir Terry’s proposal – wants to create a botanical garden on the foreshore and bring back playing fields on Gyspy Brae.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/business/boardwalk-vision-revived-for-edinburgh-waterfront-1-4655848" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/business/boardwalk-vision-revived-for-edinburgh-waterfront-1-4655848</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12195&page=6#post-270549 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:24:02 +0000 ejstubbs 270549@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>@chdot</strong>: <em>Glad the bay never got filled in!</em></p> <p>Amen to that. These days it's part of the Firth of Forth SSSI/SPA and a Ramsar designated site.</p> <p>The latter designation is derived from the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of "Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat". Not bad for a suburb of Edinburgh.</p> <p>(Edinburgh also has the smallest SPA in Scotland: Imperial Dock Lock in Leith. It only covers around 1,000 square metres, but it is home to one of the UK’s biggest common tern colonies.) </p>