The Skinny Guide to Edinburgh 2025: Coffee and Cafes
Maybe it’s a caffeine hit or a vitamin boost you're after. Below are our favourite coffee shops and juice joints in town
This article is taken from the 2025 edition of The Skinny Guide to Edinburgh – a 116-page selection of some of our favourite things to do and places to go across the city. Pick up a copy at venues across Edinburgh this summer, or read it online via Issuu.
Artisan Roast
72-74 Leith Walk
An Edinburgh institution, you’ll find several Artisan Roasts across the city, and it goes without saying, the coffee is ace at all of them. The Leith shop is particularly good: with plenty of space, it hosts regular spoken-word and comedy events.
Bing Tea
37 W Nicolson St
This tea shop is cute as a button. It serves up the classic milk tea flavours – Thai, Taro, Matcha – alongside fruity numbers and original concoctions like the popular Flaming Tiger and White Rabbit.
Cairngorm Coffee
1 Melville Pl
A bright corner cafe serving killer toasties and knockout coffee from their top-notch roastery.
Cult Espresso
104 Buccleuch St
In a converted alleyway, Cult showcases an evolving range of speciality coffee from their own roastery and beyond.
Fortitude Coffee
4 Abbey Mount, 66 Hamilton Pl and 72 Newington Rd, Edinburgh
Fortitude roast some of Edinburgh's very best coffee, their venues are staffed by proper coffee heads, and their sea salt and hazelnut caramel shortbread is one of the very best things you can eat in the city.
Hula Juice Bar
103-105 West Bow & 94A Fountainbridge
If juices and smoothies are more your bag, get yourself to Hula. Even on the gloomiest Edinburgh day, its vibrant beverages like Sunshine in a Cup or the Blue Hawaiian will put a spring in your step.
Lovecrumbs
155 West Port
Gorgeous cafe with great homemade cakes and pastries, and adorably quirky decor.
The Source
4 Spittal St
Your favourite coffee shop’s favourite coffee shop. The Source is the place to go for unusual and exciting single-origin coffees from around the world.
Williams & Johnson
1 Customs Wharf
It’s all sleek concrete and streamlined furnishings, but there’s nothing simple about the rich and delicious coffee.