The long room at Coates Cafe: cream cornicing and a ceiling rose, strings of fairy lights and hanging plants, dark teal walls, black-and-white encaustic tiles at the door, and windows onto Haymarket Terrace.

Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh

CoatesCafé · Breakfast · Coffee

Eggs and avocado on toast, stacks of pancakes and a full breakfast, served under old cornicing, fairy lights and ferns. Open every day from 8am.

See breakfast Call 0131 337 1791

Photo: Jaber M via Google Maps

From 8am

A proper breakfast, seven days.

Three plates from the pass, photographed by the café and its customers.

A tall stack of pancakes under a glossy berry compote with raspberries, blueberries and toasted oats.

Pancakes

Stacked high, under berries and a crunch of oats.

Photo: benedicte pain
Poached eggs with hollandaise and bacon on toasted sourdough, fanned avocado, micro herbs and cherry tomatoes on a navy stoneware plate.

Eggs, bacon & avocado

Poached eggs and hollandaise on toast, avocado fanned out beside.

Photo: Coates Cafe
A full breakfast: two fried eggs, beans, bacon, a grilled tomato, mushrooms, black pudding and brown toast with butter.

The full plate

Eggs, beans, bacon, black pudding, tomato, mushrooms and toast.

Photo: benedicte pain
A table by the tall sash window, white shutters folded back and a window box of red geraniums outside, looking onto the sandstone tenements across Haymarket Terrace.
Photo: Coates Cafe

The room

Shutters, ferns and geraniums.

A tall, high-ceilinged room on Haymarket Terrace, with the shutters folded back, a ceiling rose, and fairy lights strung under the cornicing. Tiles at the door, oak tables, and a window seat looking out on red geraniums.

8amopen daily
4.3★564 reviews
5 minwalk to Haymarket
A cappuccino with a rosetta in a navy cup on a wooden table.

Big cups, with a rosetta on top.Photo: Rachel De Oliveira

Word of mouth

4.3★

Across 564 Google reviews, read on 14 September 2026. The themes are paraphrased from Google, Tripadvisor and Yelp. Nobody is quoted.

What people come back for.

The coffee

Generous cappuccinos, with latte art people photograph.

Breakfast done well

Pancakes and brunch plates, plus vegan options.

Warm and dog-friendly

Friendly staff, a relaxed room, and dogs welcome.

Visit

62 Haymarket Terrace, west of the station.

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