Twelve Triangles

There are few eateries I miss visiting more than Twelve Triangles. We lived across the street for a semester and would visit this place once a week. The challah (Fridays and Saturdays) is different than what I’m used to but super delicious nonetheless. The fluffy donuts are packed with really unique fillings that change every day. Really great coffee as well. Croissants are also very good, super crispy outside and flaky inside. There aren’t many seats but it’s just as fun to take it to go!

Cute little café just off Leith Walk, known for their wide range of delicious doughnuts.
The super friendly lady explained all the options available: doughnuts, focaccia, pies, pastries. Today’s focaccia was plum and gorgonzola. However I decided to try one of the pies which had a filling of lentils, feta and red onion. Also had a cappuccino (Steampunk coffee).
The pastry on the pie was very good, but there wasn’t enough filling and it was quite bland overall.
I paid £5 for the pie and cappuccino which is a bit steep, but I’ll be returning some time for the doughnuts.

Small, laidback bakery with a tiny number of seats. Hung around for a couple of coffees and both savoury and sweet baked products yesterday. Food was tasty, coffee was decent (as noted elsewhere the flask of hot water that tea drinkers get is handy). Good range of craft sodas too.
You can’t though stay too long chinwagging and drinking as there’s no toilet, which is a shame as it made for a very pleasant couple of hours or so but then that could well be long enough for most folk.

I almost don’t want to write a review incase lots more people go and I can’t get a seat. 12 Triangles is a tiny little bakery/​coffee shop with awesome cakes and a really nice chilled atmosphere.
There are 4 tables inside with a few more outside if the weather cooperates. It’s not the most comfortable chairs but I suppose it’s to encourage you to be quick.
The cakes are awesome and made by the same people at Lovecrumbs. The donuts are really good and so was the chocolate hazelnut was delicious. They also sell lots of different types of bread.
The coffee was ok but they have a great selection of teas and you get a flask of extra boiling water with them to make more than one cup. The pomegranate was very light and refreshing.

A friend recently brought me some donuts from here. What a lovely, delicious surprise!! I
I tried the 3 different filled donuts on offer. One with cream & peanut butter, the other chocolate & coffee and the other poppyseed and cream with an apple twist. All very delightful.
The doughnut is a proper fresh airy, fluffy, golden fried donut. You can tell they are freshly made. They are delicious!!!
I definitely recommend heading over and giving this new shop a try. If you love doughnuts you won’t be disappointed.

Superb coffee and phenomenal baking puts this small café just off Leith Walk at the top of list for cool cafes. Little sister of Lovecrumbs, the café itself has a quirky, stylish design — there’s not much space so it helps having seats outside in the summer. Melt in the mouth croissants, delicious breads, incredible filled doughnuts. Heaven.

I love doughnuts. Period. And this place did not fail me. I have followed them on Instagram for a while, and no longer a Leith-​er, it has taken me a while to make it down there. Obviously Leith would get more fab eateries after I go… anyhow, it is next to Odd Bins off Leith Walk, and has a blue painted outside (which the lovely girl who works there was painting after she made our coffees). The interior is nice and nothing fancy, there are a few fresh breads to buy from 2 – 3 pounds each and then a small counter with doughnuts, brownies, a savor roll and I saw a single, delicious remaining cinnamon roll. They also have coffee, serving Steampunk, they offer a standard coffee menu, some teas and cold drinks. They also offer iced lattes in small jam jars.
We opted to try the caramel custard doughnut and the chocolate hazelnut custard one. Each was 2.80, and with two coffees our bill was under 10 quid. They only have 3 tables, 2 tables for 2 and one table which can fit 4, but I can’t remember seeing enough chairs. The doughnuts were served on a plate with a knife, me being American meant I ignored the knife and went for it. The bread part of the doughnut was so delicious, light, fluffy, fresh and covered in sugar, absolutely heavily. The filling was equally as good, if no better, I expected it to be a bit sweet, but it was wonderful and not too rich. My only comment would have been that it had a bit too much filling, as it couldn’t keep itself in the doughnut as I ate it, but it was so yummy, I was happy to have extra. Although, it did make for a messy eat. The chocolate hazelnut one was nice as well, but I preferred the caramel.
They also had an apple and then a raspberry filling, but I imagine the filling change. I would definitely tell anyone to make the trip down to Leith to have a doughnut, as I left I thought how happy I am not to live around the corner anymore, because I would be there several times a week if not daily. It is a very nice treat and definitely would be a good stop for anyone with anything to do in Leith.

Twelve Triangles is owned by the cake-​geniuses behind West Port’s Lovecrumbs. Their bakery is just off Easter Road so it makes sense that their second café would be in this neck of the woods. Living locally I knew I had to pop by and try it out when it opened on Saturday. After following the opening day rush on Twitter, I waited til yesterday before heading along for Easter lunch goodies.
There is currently no sign to indicate that this is the place, it still says it’s an Asian jewellers, but you’ll know Twelve Triangles by the hipsters sitting in the sun and drinking coffee outside. When I arrived there was (I assumed) a friend of the owners taking photos of the inside for (I assume) her instagram. Of course I then proceeded to take photos for Unilocal so I can’t talk really!
Their doughnuts seem to be the big hit and they come in 3 flavours at present — coffee custard, chocolate hazelnut ganache and raspberry jam. I went for one each of the custard and chocolate. We didn’t eat them til that evening and I can’t decide if they were a bit chewy because they were a few hours old by the point or if they had been that way all along. The custard was good, the ganache was near solid. Tasty, but not the soft, yielding filling one expects of a doughnut.
Having read that Twelve Triangles were setting out to be a savoury cousin to Lovecrumbs I had to try a slice of their focaccia. Topped with courgette, potato, pesto and riccota this was a salty slice of deliciousness. Had I not found fault with the doughnuts and (spoiler alert for the next paragraph) the price, this would be a 5 star review on the strength of the focaccia alone.
Ah, but the price! Lovecrumbs is not cheap, and when they set up a pop-​up shop at their bakery last year I found myself £15 lighter after buying two of three different slices of cake. Ouch (it might have been okay had sitting in been an option). And this is true of Twelve Triangles too. Two doughnuts, a slice of focaccia and a coffee set me back nearly £9. The worst part being that the takeaway coffee was TINY and drunk in one go and cost three bloody pounds. I’ll not be making that mistake again.
Yet I think Twelve Triangles is a four star affair rather than three (partly due to a lack of half stars and because as much as anything I’m feeling generous, it’s a gorgeous, sunny bank holiday!). As I said, I loved the focaccia. The interior is cute. And the range of breads looks lovely. It’s just too expensive to be a regular treat and I fear a little bit a case of style over substance.