Dalry Rd0.4 mi from West End centrelast reviewed April 2026
One of the few lever machines in Edinburgh, run by a barista who can explain exactly what it does to extraction. Mexican single-origin on espresso. Filter runs alongside.
One of Edinburgh's few lever machines, in hands that treat it as a tool, not a prop.
Ulterior Motives · 16 Jul
For three weeks every August, Edinburgh stops hosting festivals and turns into one.
Ulterior Motives · 31 May
June is Edinburgh's own month, the one before August hands the city over to the Fringe.
Dalry Rd0.4 mi from West End centrelast reviewed April 2026
One of the few lever machines in Edinburgh, run by a barista who can explain exactly what it does to extraction. Mexican single-origin on espresso. Filter runs alongside.
One of Edinburgh's few lever machines, in hands that treat it as a tool, not a prop.
30 Dalry Rd, Edinburgh EH11 2BA, UK
0.4 mi from West End centre
Ulterior Motives · 16 Jul
For three weeks every August, Edinburgh stops hosting festivals and turns into one.
Ulterior Motives · 31 May
June is Edinburgh's own month, the one before August hands the city over to the Fringe.
Pour-overs arrive with palate water, and the staff can account for everything in the cup. A West End detour worth making.
Edinburgh's coffee-literate regulars point visitors here for the rotating pour-overs. Staff who know every bean on the bar seal it.
A Dalry Road cafe with the roastery in the same building, so the beans in every drink were roasted where you're drinking them. The coffee is Fair Trade sourced and held to the SCA scale.