6,318 places in the directory, 1,375 with a phone number on file. Tell NUM what you want and when, and it does the asking.
Edinburgh is a small city that behaves like a large one for four weeks of the year. The places worth eating in are booked out, the ones with a table free at 9pm are the ones nobody has heard of, and the difference between those two groups is not something a map app can tell you.
NUM holds 6,318 Edinburgh places. 1,375 of them have a phone number on file and 2,135 have a website, which is what lets NUM actually get an answer rather than hand you a pin and wish you luck. Everything below is counted from the live directory on 31 July 2026.
It is free. There is no booking fee, no service charge and nothing added to your bill. Businesses pay NUM 10% of a booking it completes for them, taken out of what they already charge — which is why NUM has no reason to push you anywhere you did not ask to go.
The ten largest categories NUM holds in Edinburgh, counted from the live directory on 31 July 2026. Everything else — the categories with fewer than the ten below — is grouped on the last row.
| Category | Places |
|---|---|
| Restaurants | 1,334 |
| Street food and takeaways | 722 |
| Convenience shops | 648 |
| Bars and pubs | 643 |
| Cafes | 593 |
| Beauty and spa | 579 |
| Shopping | 407 |
| Hotels | 257 |
| Guesthouses and B&Bs | 167 |
| Souvenirs and gifts | 128 |
| Everything else | 840 |
| Total | 6,318 |
Old Town · New Town · Leith · Stockbridge · Bruntsfield · Marchmont · Morningside · Haymarket · Tollcross · Southside · Grassmarket · Dean Village · Portobello
Edinburgh listings are held at street level rather than by district, so this is the ground NUM searches, not a count per area.
Not keywords. Whole sentences, in any language, with the constraints that make the answer useful — the time, the budget, the person who cannot manage stairs.
If you run one of the 6,318 places above, it is already in the directory. Claiming it is free, and it stays free — there is no listing fee and no monthly minimum. NUM takes 10% of a booking it sends you and you complete, out of the price you already charge. Nothing on walk-ins. Nothing on your own repeat customers. Nothing if the booking does not happen.
Claiming also fixes what the directory gets wrong: your hours, your phone number, what you actually serve, and whether you can take a table of eight at nine on a Friday. NUM cannot recommend what it cannot confirm, so a claimed listing is worth more than an unclaimed one for reasons that have nothing to do with paying us.
6,318 as of 31 July 2026. 1,375 have a phone number on file and 2,135 have a website. Those are counts from the live directory, not estimates — if the number moves, it is because the directory moved.
Yes, and it stays free. Travellers never pay NUM anything and nothing is added to your bill. A business pays 10% of a booking NUM completes for it, out of what it already charges.
It books where the business has given it a way to book — a claimed listing, a phone number or a booking link. Where it has not, NUM gives you the number, the address and the hours so you can do it in one tap, and tells you which of the two it is doing.
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. The 6,318 are a directory: NUM knows the place exists, where it is and what it does. A listing becomes verified when the owner claims it and passes a 5arz check. NUM tells you which kind you are looking at.
Temporary venues only appear once someone lists them, because they are not in any standing dataset. If you are running a pop-up, list it free, and take it down when the run ends. Permanent places are in already.
Claim it. It is free, it stays free, and the only money that ever changes hands is 10% of a booking NUM sends you and you complete. No listing fee, no monthly minimum, nothing on walk-ins or your own repeat customers.