Eat and Drink

This information is relevant to 2007.

The dates of this year's Festival are 9 - 25 August 2008.

The Book Festival is all about feeding the mind and imagination but sometimes there is nothing better than just feeding the body. This year we have a wide range of food and drink to do just that. Bring some friends, relax and unwind. Come join us in the gardens (just off the West End of Prices Street). We're open daily from 9.30am until late, from 11 to 27 August 2007.

FREE entry to Charlotte Square Gardens. Please pop in!

Beetroot Blue Café Bar
In the London Review of Books Signing Tent
Daily 9.30am - late
Fairtrade coffee, teas, whisky, wines and beer plus a range of light snacks, sandwiches and fresh salads.

Fenton Barns in the City
In the Bookshop
Daily 9.30am - 9.15pm
The cafe at East Lothian's Fenton Barns Farm Shop comes to the heart of Edinburgh. Wholesome snacks, tempting pastries, mouth-watering cakes and tarts, as well as Fairtrade organic coffees from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, speciality teas and award-winning soft drinks.

Di Rollo of Musselburgh Ice Cream Trike
In the Garden
Daily 11.00am - 6.00pm
Locally made ice creams in a lip-smacking variety of flavours.

Beetroot Blue Café Bar
In the Highland Park Spiegeltent
Daily 11.30am - 6.00pm
Home-made soups, sandwiches, fresh salads and Fairtrade coffee and teas plus great beer, Stella Bella wine and plenty of Highland Park Whisky. Also free live music most lunchtimes and evenings.

The Spiegelbar
In the Highland Park Spiegeltent
Evenings from 9.00pm

A full bar and fabulous free live music every night from Sunday 12 August - pick up a list of who's playing in the Entrance Tent (from 11 August).

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