Counter On The Canal

Union Canal footway nearly Gilmore Park EH3 9RU Edinburgh »Map«

Tuesday-Sunday Around 7.30am-3pm weekdays Later hours on weekends Espresso Coffee: Mr Eion Also: Cakes

Coolness: Cracking java from a duck-egg bluish canal boat

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The Counter on the canal (4♥) is a java store fashioned from a lovingly restored canal boat on Edinburgh's Union Canal.

Owners Sally together with Ali purpose their bespoke blend from local roaster Mr Eion that is primarily Sumatran together with Brazilian.  They together with their squad plough out a mighty fine espresso-based java of a choclatey, hazelnutty nature - served inward eco-friendly take-away cups.

They bake their cakes, cookies, brownies together with traybakes inward the boat's kitchen, supplying their iii constabulary box java shops located inward Morningside, Tollcross together with Usher Hall, every bit good their boat.

The boat itself is rattling picturesque together with the service friendly together with attentive. It's permanently moored against the canal border rattling nearly the early on 1900s Leamington Lift Bridge, which besides has a footway therefore yous tin cross from i side of the canal to the other, joining Gilmore Park together with Leamington Road.

Take-away coffees are actively encouraged for those on their agency to hold upwards or play, together with a few chairs together with tables are available for those who receive got fourth dimension to linger. You tin besides slump into a canvass deck chair if you're inward an fifty-fifty to a greater extent than put dorsum mood.

Most people don't intend of canal boats when they intend of Edinburgh because they didn't play a big component inward the city's history. The Union Canal was opened inward 1822 to provide slowly together with efficient carry of coal together with other minerals from Lanarkshire. As luck would receive got it, the railway evolved speedily together with inside xx years had eclipsed the usefulness of the canal, which together with therefore brutal into disuse together with consummate disrepair over many years, closing inward the 1960s. Thankfully the Union was fully restored together with therefore re-opened inward 2001. It was reconnected to the Forth & Clyde Canal past times the innovative Falkirk Wheel inward 2002.

The Counter on the canal is a perfect add-on to the canal, making a lovely together with historic spot, fifty-fifty lovelier!

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