One of the newer additions to Edinburgh’s burgeoning coffee scene, Cult Espresso is an intimate, industrial-chic cafe serving single-origin coffees to the city’s student and hipster population. Guest coffees feature alongside seasonal Round Hill Roastery beans from Bath, with all the complex options and gizmos on offer that serious coffee-heads expect.
Cult Espresso
Edinburgh
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