Local business

The Howlin Hound will open shortly at 7 East London Street. Painters, decorators and folk with no chat but impressive toolboxes have been busy at the premises for over two weeks.

After 12 years in business, staff at The Beerhive are releasing their first beer, made in collaboration with the Closet Brewing Project.

Edinburgh-based Closet Brewing are one of the smallest micro-breweries (if not the smallest) in the country. Their name derives from the fact that the very first beers they made were brewed in a closet in their home!

They have now scaled up to their kitchen and this is where Peter Sherry and Beehive colleagues brewed the beer with them a couple of months ago. 

Saddened to hear Narcissus Flowers has shut permanently at short notice.

Shop ceased trading on Thursday 30 March.

Horrible shock for staff (informed the day before). Big loss for Broughton Street.

More on this story in Issue 328, published on 1 May.

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Charlie Ellis tells us how to find a decent brew and rues the loss of a promising newcomer

Speciality coffee houses have reached a degree of ubiquity in the city. It’s part of a seemingly irreversible tide of hipsterisation. Specialty coffee is now well established In Edinburgh with several top-class roasters and numerous high-calibre coffeehouses.

The likes of Artisan Roast, Williams & Johnson and Fortitude have been serving carefully crafted brews for well over a decade.

New restaurant to open on Saturday, 1 October. More details (including menus) on their website HERE.

Back open on Broughton Street today.

Curiouser and Lifestory have teamed up to create and sell these in red and green. All profits go to local mental-health charity the Stafford Centre. £6.95 well spent.

God, I remember being enthusiastic and versatile. Also bendy, go-ahead, self-starting, and optimistic. Not so much now. More oorlich and interested in spirits.

Plenty of room upstairs.

Ill-advised abbreviation in Tesco Broughton Road.