Local business

David Young takes a short, wistful look at the changing Stockbridge streetscape.

Gallery? Gone. (Doubtfire Gallery, N.W. Circus Place.)

Charlie Ellis sips and considers …

Artisan Roast were one of the pioneers of specialty coffee in Edinburgh. 

Having started in 2007, they now have four shops across the city and a well-respected roastery in Peffermill. 

Their first shop, on Broughton Street, remains popular to this day. It’s somewhat unique among ‘serious’ Edinburgh coffee spots, with an unusual vibe. 

Leith Walk Police Box celebrates ten years of pop-ups this year, writes owner Monty Roy.  

The box launched in February 2015 with pop-ups by local Leith-based artist and photographer Anjila Wilson and Edinburgh Tool Library, the UK's first such Typesharing resource.  

Are you approaching tonight’s celebrations with a certain weariness?

Have you become jaded over Christmas through an excess of savoury sameness – that familiar tedium of cheese & onion, salt & vinegar, prawn cocktail and BBQ beef?

Then may we recommend to you the delights of the Starlight Asian Supermarket at 368 Leith Walk.

It boasts a quite astonishing variety of Lay’s crisp flavours to which many locals will be unaccustomed, at least in this context and these combinations. 

'A good bookshop is just a genteel black hole that knows how to read' (Terry Pratchett).

A good bookshop is a good bookshop.

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This enchanting window display is at the foot of Broughton Street. 

But owing to some quirk of history, its postal address is 53 London Street (former home of the sub-post office).

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Charlie Ellis discovers a heady brew …
 

Edinburgh’s New Town is widely seen as an architectural achievement of the highest order. It’s also seen as a manifestation of the way social divisions have been embedded into Edinburgh’s DNA. 

The closely related Gardener's Cottage (London Road Gardens) and Lookout restaurants (Calton Hill) have permanently closed. 

The former's website thanks patrons for 'all your support over the years'. 

These are tough times for restaurants: customers with less disposable income; increased ingredient prices; fuel-intensive kitchens with increased energy costs. 

Locals were shocked this morning to find a note on the door of Cuckoo’s Bakery saying the business had ceased trading.

The popular café appeared to be thriving in recent weeks, and regular customers had no idea there was trouble behind the scenes.

Spurtle spoke to another prominent independent café owner in the area this afternoon. They said that while the news caught them by surprise, it was not totally unexpected.

Welcome to Crep Exclusive, the latest addition to Broughton Street and a vibrant new presence at No. 50A after the departure of Concrete Wardrobe in 2020.

To be clear: For anyone wanting a pancake, this is not for you.

To put it mildly: For anyone just wanting to replace their old rubber tennis shoes, this will come as a bit of an eye-opener.