{"id":6439,"date":"2026-08-11T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edinburghka.com\/top-cafes"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:00:49","slug":"top-cafes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/edinburghka.com\/en\/top-cafes","title":{"rendered":"5 cafes in Edinburgh with the highest ratings \u2014 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"padrino-inject-root\">\n<div class=\"padrino-inject-inner\">\n<article data-padrino-shell=\"1\">\n<header>\n<p>Current ranking based on review analysis and technical signals.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<section id=\"at-a-glance\">\n<h2>At a glance<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>#<\/th>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Score<\/th>\n<th>Reviews<\/th>\n<th>Stands out for<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"#rank-1\"><span>Black Medicine Coffee Co<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\u2b50 9.1<\/td>\n<td>2 066<\/td>\n<td>Editors&#039; pick<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"#rank-2\"><span>Books N&#039; Cup Cafe<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\u2b50 9.9<\/td>\n<td>1 886<\/td>\n<td>People&#039;s favorite<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"#rank-3\"><span>LOWDOWN<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\u2b50 9.3<\/td>\n<td>1 739<\/td>\n<td>\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"#rank-4\"><span>Black Sheep Coffee &#8211; 25 Princess Street<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\u2b50 9.3<\/td>\n<td>1 736<\/td>\n<td>\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"#rank-5\"><span>Room &amp; Rumours Coffee<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\u2b50 9.5<\/td>\n<td>1 231<\/td>\n<td>\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"summary\">\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                            <strong>Editors&#039; pick:<\/strong><br \/>\n                            <a href=\"#rank-1\"><span>Black Medicine Coffee Co<\/span><\/a>\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                            <strong>People&#039;s favorite:<\/strong><br \/>\n                            <a href=\"#rank-2\"><span>Books N&#039; Cup Cafe<\/span><\/a>\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"full-list\">\n<h2>Full ranking<\/h2>\n<article id=\"rank-1\">\n<h3>\n                    <span>1. Black Medicine Coffee Co<\/span><span> \u00b7 \u2b50 9.1<\/span>                <\/h3>\n<p class=\"padrino-hub-card-reviews\" style=\"margin:.35rem 0 .75rem;color:#6b7280;font-size:.875rem;line-height:1.4\">(2066 reviews)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo\" style=\"margin:0 0 1rem;overflow:visible\">\n                                                    <a href=\"\/en\/black-medicine-coffee-co-edinburgh\" class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo__link\" style=\"position:relative;text-decoration:none;color:inherit\"><br \/>\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.edinburghka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2026\/08\/black-medicine-coffee-co.jpg\" alt=\"Black Medicine Coffee Co \u2014 Cafe\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto\"><br \/>\n                                                                                                    <span class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo__badge\" style=\"position:absolute;right:8px;bottom:8px;z-index:5;padding:4px 8px;border-radius:6px;color:#fff;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;line-height:1\">+5 photos<\/span><br \/>\n                                                            <\/a><br \/>\n                                                            <span class=\"screen-reader-text\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;padding:0;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;border:0\">5 more photos for Black Medicine Coffee Co<\/span><br \/>\n                                                                        <\/figure>\n<p><span>2 Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9DH, United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some caf\u00e9s open with a manifesto. Black Medicine Coffee Co simply outlasted everybody else. It has been pouring coffee on Edinburgh&#039;s Souths\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n                    <a href=\"\/en\/black-medicine-coffee-co-edinburgh\">View place \u2192<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"rank-2\">\n<h3>\n                    <span>2. Books N&#039; Cup Cafe<\/span><span> \u00b7 \u2b50 9.9<\/span>                <\/h3>\n<p class=\"padrino-hub-card-reviews\" style=\"margin:.35rem 0 .75rem;color:#6b7280;font-size:.875rem;line-height:1.4\">(1886 reviews)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo\" style=\"margin:0 0 1rem;overflow:visible\">\n                                                    <a href=\"\/en\/books-n-cup-cafe-edinburgh\" class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo__link\" style=\"position:relative;text-decoration:none;color:inherit\"><br \/>\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.edinburghka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2026\/08\/books-n-cup-cafe.jpg\" alt=\"Books N&#039; Cup Cafe \u2014 Cafe\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto\"><br \/>\n                                                                                                    <span class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo__badge\" style=\"position:absolute;right:8px;bottom:8px;z-index:5;padding:4px 8px;border-radius:6px;color:#fff;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;line-height:1\">+5 photos<\/span><br \/>\n                                                            <\/a><br \/>\n                                                            <span class=\"screen-reader-text\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;padding:0;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;border:0\">5 more photos for Books N&#039; Cup Cafe<\/span><br \/>\n                                                                        <\/figure>\n<p><span>23 Home St, Edinburgh EH3 9JR, United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The most useful thing about Books N&#039; Cup Cafe is not the books. It is the hours. In a city where the coffee shops shutter in the late aftern\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"\/en\/books-n-cup-cafe-edinburgh\">\n<p>\u00abUna cafeter\u00eda ideal para desayunar si est\u00e1s por la zona. Prob\u00e9 el roll de canela, la tosta\u2026\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n                    <a href=\"\/en\/books-n-cup-cafe-edinburgh\">View place \u2192<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"rank-3\">\n<h3>\n                    <span>3. LOWDOWN<\/span><span> \u00b7 \u2b50 9.3<\/span>                <\/h3>\n<p class=\"padrino-hub-card-reviews\" style=\"margin:.35rem 0 .75rem;color:#6b7280;font-size:.875rem;line-height:1.4\">(1739 reviews)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo\" style=\"margin:0 0 1rem;overflow:visible\">\n                                                    <a href=\"\/en\/lowdown-edinburgh\" class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo__link\" style=\"position:relative;text-decoration:none;color:inherit\"><br \/>\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.edinburghka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2026\/08\/lowdown.jpg\" alt=\"LOWDOWN \u2014 Cafe\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto\"><br \/>\n                                                                                                    <span class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo__badge\" style=\"position:absolute;right:8px;bottom:8px;z-index:5;padding:4px 8px;border-radius:6px;color:#fff;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;line-height:1\">+5 photos<\/span><br \/>\n                                                            <\/a><br \/>\n                                                            <span class=\"screen-reader-text\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;padding:0;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;border:0\">5 more photos for LOWDOWN<\/span><br \/>\n                                                                        <\/figure>\n<p><span>40 George St, Edinburgh EH2 2LE, United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no Wi-Fi at LOWDOWN, and at weekends there are no laptops either. That is not an oversight in a basement full of Georgian stone \u2014 i\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"\/en\/lowdown-edinburgh\">\n<p>\u00abThe staff are super lovely and attentive. The atmosphere is very clean, modern. It&#039;s usual\u2026\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n                    <a href=\"\/en\/lowdown-edinburgh\">View place \u2192<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"rank-4\">\n<h3>\n                    <span>4. Black Sheep Coffee &#8211; 25 Princess Street<\/span><span> \u00b7 \u2b50 9.3<\/span>                <\/h3>\n<p class=\"padrino-hub-card-reviews\" style=\"margin:.35rem 0 .75rem;color:#6b7280;font-size:.875rem;line-height:1.4\">(1736 reviews)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo\" style=\"margin:0 0 1rem;overflow:visible\">\n                                                    <a href=\"\/en\/black-sheep-coffee-25-princess-street-edinburgh\" class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo__link\" style=\"position:relative;text-decoration:none;color:inherit\"><br \/>\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.edinburghka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2026\/08\/black-sheep-coffee-25-princess-street.jpg\" alt=\"Black Sheep Coffee - 25 Princess Street \u2014 Cafe\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto\"><br \/>\n                                                                                                    <span class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo__badge\" style=\"position:absolute;right:8px;bottom:8px;z-index:5;padding:4px 8px;border-radius:6px;color:#fff;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;line-height:1\">+5 photos<\/span><br \/>\n                                                            <\/a><br \/>\n                                                            <span class=\"screen-reader-text\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;padding:0;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;border:0\">5 more photos for Black Sheep Coffee &#8211; 25 Princess Street<\/span><br \/>\n                                                                        <\/figure>\n<p><span>24-25 Princes St., Edinburgh EH2 2AN, United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Almost every coffee chain in Britain sells you the same promise: one hundred per cent arabica. Black Sheep Coffee built an entire company on\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n                    <a href=\"\/en\/black-sheep-coffee-25-princess-street-edinburgh\">View place \u2192<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"rank-5\">\n<h3>\n                    <span>5. Room &amp; Rumours Coffee<\/span><span> \u00b7 \u2b50 9.5<\/span>                <\/h3>\n<p class=\"padrino-hub-card-reviews\" style=\"margin:.35rem 0 .75rem;color:#6b7280;font-size:.875rem;line-height:1.4\">(1231 reviews)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo\" style=\"margin:0 0 1rem;overflow:visible\">\n                                                    <a href=\"\/en\/room-rumours-coffee-edinburgh\" class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo__link\" style=\"position:relative;text-decoration:none;color:inherit\"><br \/>\n                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.edinburghka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2026\/08\/room-rumours-coffee.jpg\" alt=\"Room &amp; Rumours Coffee \u2014 Cafe\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto\"><br \/>\n                                                                                                    <span class=\"padrino-hub-card-photo__badge\" style=\"position:absolute;right:8px;bottom:8px;z-index:5;padding:4px 8px;border-radius:6px;color:#fff;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;line-height:1\">+5 photos<\/span><br \/>\n                                                            <\/a><br \/>\n                                                            <span class=\"screen-reader-text\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;padding:0;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;border:0\">5 more photos for Room &amp; Rumours Coffee<\/span><br \/>\n                                                                        <\/figure>\n<p><span>Arch 13, 25 E Market St, Edinburgh EH8 8FS, United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Under the railway approach to Edinburgh&#039;s main station there is a run of brick arches that spent most of a century as storage, and one of th\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n                    <a href=\"\/en\/room-rumours-coffee-edinburgh\">View place \u2192<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"faq\">\n<h2>Questions &amp; answers<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Which place tops the ranking?<\/strong> Black Medicine Coffee Co \u2014 score 9.1\/10 (Editors&#039; pick).<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many places are in the list and how were they chosen?<\/strong> The selection includes 5 places chosen by our editors based on rating and reviews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the average rating in the top?<\/strong> 9.4\/10 \u2014 average score of 5 places in the list.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>\n            <strong>See also:<\/strong><br \/>\n                            <a href=\"\/en\/top-beauty\/\">Best beauty salons<\/a> \u00b7                             <a href=\"\/en\/top-restaurants\/\">Best restaurants<\/a>                    <\/p>\n<footer>\n        <small>Data is refreshed monthly. 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At a glance # Place Score Reviews Stands out for 1 Black Medicine Coffee Co \u2b50 9.1 2 066 Editors&#039; pick 2 Books N&#039; Cup Cafe \u2b50 9.9 1 886 People&#039;s favorite 3 LOWDOWN \u2b50 9.3 1 739 \u2014 4 Black Sheep Coffee &#8211; 25 Princess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":545,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6439","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburghka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburghka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburghka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edinburghka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edinburghka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edinburghka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6455,"href":"https:\/\/edinburghka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6439\/revisions\/6455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburghka.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}