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Rosecleft Bar and Cafe's green corner shopfront sits beneath a sandstone tenement, a wooden bench outside.
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Roseleaf Bar Café

A bar and café in Leith, open since 2007 where the old Black Swan pub stood on Sandport Place, serving brunch, lunch and dinner every day.

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Welcome

On a bend of Sandport Place, below a sandstone tenement, a green corner front is framed in trailing foliage and palm leaves, with a bench outside and a chalkboard by the door.

Inside, every surface has something on it. Red walls are trimmed with greenery round a long wooden bar and its beer taps, and green banquettes sit under a pressed-tin ceiling where a palm-leaf fan turns. A rose garland frames a mirror over a mantel crowded with ornaments and a red rabbit, and the back room is papered in flowers, with dark wood furniture and a vintage mirror. Old radios and telephones share the windowsills with potted plants, and a wooden sign by the fireplace declares its love of Leith. Come for brunch after a walk along the Shore, and take a seat by the window.

Before you go

Open every day from ten, until eleven from Sunday to Thursday and until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays; the kitchen takes last orders at nine, or half past on the weekend.

Booking is not essential but is recommended.

Where
Sandport Place, Leith, a short walk from the Shore.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
10am–11pm
Tuesday
10am–11pm
Wednesday
10am–11pm
Thursday
10am–11pm
Friday
10am–midnight
Saturday
10am–midnight
Sunday
10am–11pm

Did you know

Rosecleft's green corner shopfront sits below carved sandstone panels, a chalkboard menu beside the door.
Did you know

Once the Black Swan.

Before Roseleaf opened in 2007, the corner was the Black Swan pub.

Bottles line a foliage-trimmed bar beside dining tables set against red walls in a pub.
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Pot-tails.

The cocktails come in retro teapots. In Leith they are known as pot-tails.

An ornate vintage telephone sits on a windowsill between two potted plants.
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Menus from old magazines.

The menus are made out of old copies of National Geographic.

Felt hats in grey, brown, burgundy and blue hang in a row on a white wall.
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Hats on the walls.

Hats of every shape and size hang round the walls, from felt trilbies to a straw hat in the window, and one on the stag's head.

A mounted stag's head wearing a hat sits below a foliage display, a wooden sign reading 'I love Leith' on the mantel beside books.
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On Sandport Place in Leith, near the Shore.

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