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Sloe Lane Bakery

A small independent bakery on Leith Walk, baking pastries, cakes, sourdough and baguettes from scratch, with Carter coffee and tables outside.

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Sloe Lane Bakery is a small, independent bakery on Leith Walk where everything is made from scratch, and it's one of the loveliest places in the city for a pastry and a coffee.

The counter fills with pastries, cakes, sourdough and baguettes, made with local and seasonal ingredients wherever possible, and there's a run of savoury bakes beside the sweet ones, which you don't find everywhere. The coffee comes from its partners at Carter Coffee, a short walk away in Bonnington, and the butter from the Edinburgh Butter Company. There's a little shop too, with coffee beans, Bare Bones chocolate, loose leaf tea, prints and ceramics to take home. Inside is small, with a few seats, and there are picnic tables out front, so on a fine morning you can sit outside with your coffee and watch Leith Walk go by. It's open from 8am to 3pm, Wednesday to Sunday, and for a birthday or a party it will make a special cake if you get in touch.

Close byCarter CoffeeA coffee roastery on Fyfe Lane in Bonnington, Leith, opened in 2026, pouring its own coffee at the door on Wednesday to Friday mornings.2 min by roadSee itThe coffee counter at Carter Coffee, with a grinder and a brewer on the back bench and a plant by the window.
Before you go

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 8am to 3pm; closed Monday and Tuesday.

A few seats inside and picnic tables out front.

Where
106 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5DT.
Open
Wednesday to Sunday 8am to 3pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Cakes to order
For an event, email hello@sloelanebakery.co.uk.
The shop
Coffee beans, chocolate, loose leaf tea, prints and ceramics.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
8am–3pm
Thursday
8am–3pm
Friday
8am–3pm
Saturday
8am–3pm
Sunday
8am–3pm

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Where it is

On Leith Walk, EH6 5DT.

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