Café
1. Lannan Bakery
A Stockbridge bakery known for classic viennoiserie, custard slices, pains suisses and cardamom buns, with a regularly changing range and a pantry next door.
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2. Monmouth Coffee Borough
A specialty coffee shop and roaster's outlet at Borough Market, serving filter and espresso coffee and selling beans that can be sampled in store.
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3. Bar Italia
A family-run Italian espresso bar on Frith Street, opened in 1949 and open from early morning until the small hours.
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4. Söderberg The Meadows
A Swedish bakery café at Quartermile beside the Meadows, serving buns, sourdough and Swedish pastries baked on site, open every day from early morning.
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5. Cairngorm Coffee West End
The West End café of Edinburgh roaster Cairngorm Coffee, serving its own speciality coffee from early morning until 7pm, seven days a week.
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6. Prufrock Coffee
A specialty coffee bar on Leather Lane near Farringdon, known for carefully prepared espresso and filter coffee and its barista training.
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7. Artisan Roast Broughton Street
The original heart of Edinburgh roaster Artisan Roast, a snug Broughton Street café serving its own espresso blend, single origins and V60 filter.
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8. The Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon at Fortnum & Mason
Fortnum & Mason's fourth-floor tea room on Piccadilly, opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012 and serving classic, savoury and high teas with live piano.
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9. Mary’s Milk Bar
A small Grassmarket gelato and chocolate shop where Mary makes the gelato fresh every morning, known for hot chocolate floats and changing flavours.
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10. Regency Café
A traditional Art Deco caff in Westminster, serving fry-ups, omelettes and mugs of tea since 1946 and a familiar backdrop in British films.
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11. Maison Bertaux
A small French pâtisserie on Greek Street, founded in 1871 and often described as London's oldest, serving cream cakes, scones and pots of tea.
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12. The Milkman
An independent speciality coffee shop on Cockburn Street in the Old Town, serving coffee and cakes, with a second branch further up the same street.
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