text: Beanscene should be one of the best places in Edinburgh city centre to catch up with friends It has live music several nights a week a great central location and offers comfort food such as nachos and pizza to go with your coffee or smoothiennUnfortunately it does not quite live up to what you would expect Unless you want greasy fast food then it is not a great place to go for lunch or dinner If it is a coffee you are after you will get much better value for money across the street in The Grind House or even Starbucks Likewise if it is a live music venue you are after then there are plenty more in Edinburgh that are not quite so cramped and chaoticnnBasically by trying to be too many things at once it ends up being neither It is clean staff are generally friendly and pleasant and it is in a good location but still it just does not quite work