A shop in Edinburgh city centre may soon be transformed into a new restaurant.

Plans have been lodged with Edinburgh Council to turn the premises of Renaissance Framing at 8 Antigua Street into an eatery.

Formerly, customers would bring pictures to be framed or repaired. According to planning documents, the current occupier has operated a "family business over the past century" but it is "sadly about to end".

Now developers are seeking permission to add a kitchen and chimney to the Broughton workshop with the aim of changing it into a restaurant.

They claim the exterior of the storefront would remain largely the same and changes would consist of kitchen fittings in the rear of the shop.

Documents submitted to the Council read: "The property is a former shop unit, with a traditional fr

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