Santu
A tiny espresso bar on the Canongate, the Royal Mile coffee bar of Santu, who roast coffee from Brazil in Edinburgh, open every day.
Santu is a tiny, old-fashioned espresso bar on the Canongate, and a calm little stop on one of the busiest streets in the city.
It opened on the Royal Mile in 2021 as the first shop of Santu Coffee, which was founded in 2018 by a Brazilian and a Brit. They buy their coffee directly from farmers they lived and worked with in Espirito Santo, a small, mountainous state in Brazil, and roast every bean here in Edinburgh. Inside there's a record player, a punch card for regulars, just a handful of seats and a few lovely pastries on the counter to go with your flat white. It's open every day from 8am to 4pm, so it's an easy one to fit into a morning on the Royal Mile, and Dunbar's Close Garden is just across the street if you'd like to take your coffee outside. Santu also has a second coffee bar inside its roastery on Union Street, a city laundry of 1931 that still has its original tiles.
Open every day from 8am to 4pm, with just a handful of seats.
The roastery's own coffee bar on Union Street keeps the same hours.
- Where
- 126 Canongate, on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH8 8DD.
- Open
- Every day, 8am to 4pm.
- Seats
- Just a handful; plenty take their coffee away.
- Access
- A step-free entrance.
- The roastery
- A second coffee bar inside the roastery, 23 Union Street, EH1 3LR, also open 8am to 4pm daily.
Opening hours
Their website- Monday
- 8am–4pm
- Tuesday
- 8am–4pm
- Wednesday
- 8am–4pm
- Thursday
- 8am–4pm
- Friday
- 8am–4pm
- Saturday
- 8am–4pm
- Sunday
- 8am–4pm
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Add your tipAt 126 Canongate, on the lower half of the Royal Mile in the Old Town.
Bakehouse CloseA cobbled close off the Canongate, through a pend behind Huntly House into one of the few corners of 17th-century Canongate to survive.Under a mile 1 min by road
Scottish Poetry LibraryA free library of poetry in a modern timber-and-glass building off the Canongate, home of the first of Edinburgh's mysterious book sculptures.Under a mile 1 min by road
White Horse CloseA white-harled courtyard of crow-stepped houses at the foot of the Canongate, a 17th-century close rebuilt in the 1960s to look as it once did.Under a mile 3 min by road
Scottish Parliament BuildingThe home of the Scottish Parliament at the foot of the Royal Mile, Enric Miralles's prize-winning design, free to visit Monday to Saturday.Under a mile 3 min by road
Palace of HolyroodhouseThe King's official residence in Scotland, at the end of the Royal Mile, with the State Apartments, Mary Queen of Scots' Chambers and the ruins of Holyrood Abbey.Under a mile 3 min by road
Clarinda's TearoomA tearoom on the Canongate since 1976, named for Robert Burns's Clarinda, with homemade scones, lace tablecloths and china cups.Under a mile 3 min by road
Dunbar's Close GardenA small walled garden off the Canongate, laid out in the manner of a 17th-century town garden, free and a few steps from the Royal Mile.Under a mile 4 min by road
The People’s StoryThe city's free museum of Edinburgh's working people, from the 18th century to now, in the Canongate Tolbooth of 1591.Under a mile 3 min by road
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