Saddened to hear Narcissus Flowers has shut permanently at short notice.
Shop ceased trading on Thursday 30 March.
Horrible shock for staff (informed the day before). Big loss for Broughton Street.
More on this story in Issue 328, published on 1 May.
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Speciality coffee houses have reached a degree of ubiquity in the city. It’s part of a seemingly irreversible tide of hipsterisation. Specialty coffee is now well established In Edinburgh with several top-class roasters and numerous high-calibre coffeehouses.
The likes of Artisan Roast, Williams & Johnson and Fortitude have been serving carefully crafted brews for well over a decade.
New restaurant to open on Saturday, 1 October. More details (including menus) on their website HERE.
Back open on Broughton Street today.
Curiouser and Lifestory have teamed up to create and sell these in red and green. All profits go to local mental-health charity the Stafford Centre. £6.95 well spent.
God, I remember being enthusiastic and versatile. Also bendy, go-ahead, self-starting, and optimistic. Not so much now. More oorlich and interested in spirits.
Plenty of room upstairs.
Ill-advised abbreviation in Tesco Broughton Road.
Making moments into memories. For sale in a shop called, appropriately enough, Go Outdoors.
If you’re passing Canonmills Newsagents this sunny Wednesday, pop in and congratulate Anwar and Ruby. Today, they’re celebrating 21 years in charge of the popular local shop at 3 Howard Street.
The pair first learned the business in partnership with Ruby’s sister Zahida and husband Mohammad (who later ran the M.A. Store on East Claremont Street) in Musselburgh.
Next, in 1985 they took over a newsagent in Colinton Mains, before switching to Canonmills in 2001.