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The dining room at Hula, its walls papered with tigers and palm leaves.
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Hula Juice Bar

A cafe on the West Bow, just off the Grassmarket, serving fresh juices, smoothies and bowls, breakfasts, brunch and lunch.

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Welcome

Where Victoria Street tumbles down into the Grassmarket, Hula sits on the West Bow, a bright and cheerful cafe given over to juices, bowls and breakfasts.

It opens at half past six, early enough to be the first stop of a day in the Old Town.

The room is a small jungle, with wallpaper of tigers and palm leaves, green-painted walls, wire chairs and plants tumbling from every shelf. The juices are pressed fresh and the smoothies made to order, and the smoothie bowls come heaped with berries, banana, granola and seeds. There are cooked breakfasts and poached eggs on toast, porridge, avocado on sourdough and big plates for brunch, then sandwiches, wraps and soup at lunchtime, with good coffee and matcha all day.

Hula opens every day from early in the morning until four in the afternoon, a few steps from the shops of Victoria Street and the cobbles of the Grassmarket.

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Open every day from early morning until four.

Where
103-105 West Bow, Edinburgh EH1 2JP, at the Grassmarket end of Victoria Street.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
6.30am–4pm
Tuesday
6.30am–4pm
Wednesday
6.30am–4pm
Thursday
6.30am–4pm
Friday
6.30am–4pm
Saturday
6.30am–4pm
Sunday
6.30am–4pm

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Where it is

On the West Bow, where Victoria Street drops into the Grassmarket.

Close byThe Grassmarket and Victoria Street.
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