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The arched mural wall at Hendersons — a bold botanical mid-century mural above a terracotta banquette and timber tables

Bruntsfield · Edinburgh · since 1962

Hendersons

Eat Better, Live Better.

The UK’s longest-running vegetarian restaurant — founded in 1962, reborn opposite Bruntsfield Links. Vegetarian and vegan cooking, led by the season.

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  • MICHELIN Guide Selected · 2024 & 2026
  • Vegetarian & vegan
  • Dog-friendly
Vegetarian & veganLed by the seasonForaged & fermentedLocally sourcedSunday roastCocktails & wine62 years in the family

A rare pairing

Michelin-selected.
And unmistakably veg.

Hendersons is the only vegetarian restaurant in Edinburgh named in the MICHELIN Guide — Selected in 2024 and again in 2026, and picked out among the inspectors’ favourite new restaurants.

It’s a quiet kind of proof for a place that has never been loud about it. We’d rather let the food, the room and 62 years of doing this do the talking.

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A laid table beneath the arched botanical mural at Hendersons
Beneath the mural arch

The room

A Bruntsfield corner,
grown over with green.

A tenement corner opposite Bruntsfield Links, worked into something warm and alive: an arched mural wall, dried foliage trained across the ceilings, clay-plaster and timber, brass light detail, a marble-topped bar.

Two floors — all-day dining and the bar upstairs, a private room and a small garden below. Come with the dog; the ground floor is theirs too.

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  • The arched mural wallOur signature
  • Foliage across the ceilingsBotanical
  • Clay plaster & timberWarm & tactile
  • Marble-topped barCocktails & coffee
  • Private room downstairsYours to take
  • A garden out backHerbs & events
Dried foliage trained across the walls and ceiling of the dining room at Hendersons
Foliage across the ceiling
The tiled coffee-and-cocktail bar at Hendersons, with a member of the team at work
The bar

A taste of the kitchen

Led by the season,
shared at the table.

Please note — our menu changes with the season and the forage, so the dishes below are a taste rather than a promise.

  • Wild mushroom & barley risotto Vegan
    Anna’s foraged mushrooms – pearl barley – kale – toasted seed
  • Hendersons haggis, neeps & tatties Vegetarian
    The house veggie haggis – swede – potato – whisky cream
  • Handmade ravioli
    Seasonal filling – sage – brown butter or vegan alternative
  • The Hendersons salad Vegan
    Leaves, roots and grains from the day’s delivery – house dressing
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An overhead spread of shared vegetarian plates, bowls and wine on a timber table at Hendersons
Shared, family-style

Worn lightly

“The only vegetarian restaurant in Edinburgh to be named in the MICHELIN Guide — and it wears 62 years of history like it’s nothing at all.” MICHELIN Guide · Selected 2024 & 2026
The candlelit downstairs private dining room at Hendersons with its sculptural screen wall

Private dining & events

The room downstairs

A private room and a garden built for birthdays, long lunches, wakes and celebrations — and events under the Edinburgh sky.

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Barrie Henderson setting a table at Hendersons

The story

Janet’s legacy, in the family

Founded by Janet Henderson in 1962, reborn in 2021 by her grandson Barrie — the same idea, sixty years on.

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Picking fresh herbs in the garden at Hendersons

The kitchen

Foraged, fermented, grown

Head chef Anna forages wild mushrooms and ferments through the seasons — the garden out back does the rest.

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Find us

Opposite the Links.

Where

7–13 Barclay Place

Bruntsfield, Edinburgh

EH10 4HW

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Hours

  • Mon–Sun · 12:00–22:00
  • Kitchen closed 16:00–17:00
  • Last orders 21:15

Hours may vary on holidays.

Reservations

0131 202 1635

hello@hendersonsrestaurant.com

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