Great coffee, delicious cakes, quiet, and friendly baristas. Perfect place to spend an afternoon reading/working. Funky decor, including Lego models. Will return soon!
Truly wonderful.
The pictures make it look bigger than it is!
Moved up a notch when they introduced bacon sanis.
Passionate about their coffee - if you are too then you can explore stuff about beans, milk foam, forcing or filtering (or something) that just gets me lost.
The Milk Oolong (tea) is my fav.
Great for a bite and a few chapters of a book or as most of the clientèle do - three research papers and some facebook (or is that snapchat?) - On that front often pretty busy with students buried in laptops for long periods
Quiet a variety of music in the background too
and last but mostest - Great staff
Edinburgh Coffee Lovers
+5
Relaxed vibe in this large long and thin cafe. Very high quality coffee - espresso and kalita wave - using Roundhill beans and guests. Deeply passionate about their coffee and happy to talk to you about it. Meals also available
Been past this place many times. Finally got to visit last week and fell in love with the place. Not only do they make fab coffee but the baristas, Dean, Drew and Gary are well versed in latte art. Soups by Union of Genius, pastries and cakes from Manna House. Teas from Anteaques, coffee comes from Roundhill near Bath.
Great music, WiFi and plenty of plug sockets.
The coffee grinders are named Bert and Ernie with Florence the espresso machine.
Laid back, good banter and excellent coffee.
Probably my favourite café in Edinburgh. I was lucky enough to be shown the place by a friend and now I go back whenever I feel like starting the day nicely. Great staff, brilliant coffee and I love their salmon toast.
This was good and affordable, definitely worth a second visit!
We had the poached eggs and the banana on toast, which were absolutely delicious. For the poached eggs, the poached eggs and sourdough arrived warm, which was nice. The salted butter and hot sauce also added a nice touch which made it feel complete. As for the banana on toast, the peanut butter (and to a lesser extent the cinnamon powder) balanced out the sweetness of the banana, and it's one of the best brunches I've had
The milky oolong (a tea, not a milk tea), was also very pleasant as it was smooth and creamy
Cult Espresso is a quaint coffee shop with a no-frills menu. I ordered the smoked salmon on bread as it was highly reviewed, and I really enjoyed the perfect balance of flavours. It was nicely garnished and the bread had a good crunch. Hot chocolate was on point too, not too sweet and chocolatey. I enjoyed the open kitchen concept too.
We stopped by to get something quick to eat and chose the grilled cheese sandwich, which was really good! The homemade fermented hot sauce is super tasty, but it is indeed very hot 🥵👍🏻.
After that we ordered to cappuccini, which were also excellent, but unfortunately we were a little pressed for time and it took them over fifteen minutes to prepare them (despite the restaurant not even being half full), so we could not finished them.
I visit this shop every time I go to Edinburgh. Friendly and helpful staff and excellent coffee. Always really excited to return here and have some great coffee. Can’t recommend enough!
Fabulous soup (Spicy Mexican Blackbean). Very relaxed informal vibe and great snack menu. Service was fine and would have been great, but they were very busy due to the number of people - which is a compliment in itself.
For the past two weeks I have been getting coffee here, and every time I have been here both the coffee and the service have been outstanding.
I have mainly been drinking flat whites for this past month and cult espresso has the best one I have had since moving to Edinburgh. The milk is perfectly textured and the coffee itself is nice and balanced.
Aside from the coffee the service has always been fast and friendly, the team seems great and this leads to good service and customer interaction which is something that is very important.
The location itself is close to the university, but it doesn't seem overly busy which is even better. The overall style and decor is good.
I have a hard time finding any faults with the place, so I would highly recommend it to anyone.
Delicious food and fantastic service, coffee was a tad average sadly (soy flat white) but they have a ton of pour overs on offer so black may be better ✌🏻
Saw so many amazing reviews about the salmon and it did not disappoint! Had the salmon on toast with a poached egg. Great coffee too!
Probably my favorite coffee and avocado toast in Edinburgh. Awesome atmosphere, delicious coffee and a great selection of food and snacks. Will definitely be back when I visit again.
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