Brass & Copper

In the area for an appointment and wanted a cup of coffee so I stepped in and was warmly greeted so I decided to sit in. Excellent coffee and home baked goodies. Great place to relax meet friends or read the paper. Great friendly owner and excellent coffee! Will be back for sure.

Had time to waste so this coffee shop was close enough to walk from Haymarket. Has Wifi but I didn’t use it. Delicious decaf coffee but surprised there was only one croissant and chocolate cake to eat at 2pm! There are closer independent coffee shops to Haymarket so will try them next time.

Best traditional espresso drinks in Edinburgh. The sandwiches and pastries are a must as well.

Amazingly good coffee best I had in Edinburgh. Friendly and polite staff, small café with a limited menu. Highly recommended for breakfast

This place is overrated. I will admit its like 3.30 but where’s the homebaking? I liked this place on FB a while ago after reading about how great it is so i get regular updates on what they’re baking for the day. Batches of scones, brownies and loaf cakes. It’s been on my ‘must try’ list for a while. So… I trek over town on my day off for a relaxing tea and cake and… NO CAKE!!! Harrumph! :(
The place is weird, seats uncomfortable and it looks like rabid dogs (or children*) have had a fight over over a scone by the looks of all the crumbs and raisins all over the floor (now stuck to the bottom of my Kenneth Cole handbag!). The floor is grubby and the tables dirty. I feel conned.
In huff.
* obv the children wouldn’t be rabid. Maybe ;)

A young sister and her brother love coffee. They dreamed of sharing it with you. Babies can cry here in the lonely financial zone behind the tall Cathedral spires, but unlike some cafes it does not resemble a noveaux office, but a very welcoming space in which even the poor can hang.
First day, leaving the Anne Frank exhibition I fell into luck, and the pub wasn’t open yet. I was directed across to Brass and Copper. A Spanish delight I had never tasted drew me, and I got asked my opinion. This was a tiny coffee, but I gradated to big mochas. Mocha by the way is an anagram of macho, but not here, I am served soya milk.
The choice of art is impressive, but this points the way to a deeper question. If the famous lesbian response to John Lennon’s classic ‘Something in the Way she Moves’, a gift for you know who, was a coffee, would the farmers in Ethiopia get more than a few pence from each Cortado or Americano?
In the lea of the Cathedral, these questions must not fester, but hope says that brother and sister will never fester. My dad says he remembers the original Marks and Spencers, a little joint like this. So who knows. They provide genuinely tasty croissants, and the challenge for the new generation is how to listen to ‘Let It Be’ by John’s friend.
Personally, I’d like to see them with a joint that also lets out soya beach huts for the citizens of Valparaiso. And I trust the cake is even better than the Ginger one they supply just now.
The sister is called Tara. She is a green Goddes from the Himalayas, where they nonetheless find shells. While he is Joel, and noone can fool him! Muchas Gratias

Quite a lovely wee café tucked in the West End Village, and as the Unilocal ratings put it ‘A-​OK’.
It’s home-​grown and feels unique, which I like. However, this uniqueness does include very odd heighted tables and chairs which I couldn’t quite relax into, and which I noted all other customers also perched at odd angles in. It didn’t ruin my tea experience, but I do wonder what their logic was for that.
Petite in size, and I know not a fault of the café, but whilst I was there two different families with small children came in. Loud, banging happy baby was replaced by crying hungry baby. In such a small place this didn’t really help catching up with Cheryl C. So it may be a place that yummy mummys /​cry-​y babies go during the week.
The cakes looked delicious, although I didn’t try one (I’m being good!) Teapigs tea, nice. Sandwiches looked tasty too.
Slightly off the main street, on William Street, but definitely a nice wee spot. If the seats were at a more convenient height and there were less children, the rest of the ambience would be perfect for an hour alone with a book.