Valvona and Crolla Bakery is a bakery in Canonmills Inverleith, Edinburgh.
Valvona and Crolla's bakery shelf on Elm Row in Edinburgh, baking within the city's longest-running Italian deli opened 1934, with focaccia and Sicilian.
Editorially verified May 19, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Panettone preorder list opens 1 October each year; the boxes sell out by mid-December.
Address: 19 Elm Row, Edinburgh EH7 4AA
Machina's Marchmont cafe and roastery outlet, a bright south-side coffee space with a daily pastry counter stocked from local bakers Company Bakery.
Tip: The pastries are bought-in rather than house-baked; quality is high but stock runs out by 12:00. Machina's earlier Brougham Place espresso bar has closed.
Worth the queue: Sourdough viennoiserie from Company Bakery
Darcie Maher's Lannan Bakery on Hamilton Place in Stockbridge Edinburgh, opened July 2023 and expanded in 2025, a scratch-made viennoiserie counter.
Tip: Queues form from 6am on weekends and the rack often sells out by 11am; the pantry next door stocks loaves and pantry goods past midday.
Worth the queue: Croissant and pain au chocolat
Twelve Triangles Portobello on the high street near the beach in Edinburgh, the seaside branch of the Leith bakery that bakes naturally leavened sourdough.
Tip: Takeaway only on this site; doughnuts and morning buns clear out by 10am on summer weekends.
Worth the queue: Brown butter and salted caramel doughnut
Rachel Morgan and Emily Cuddeford's Brunswick Street bakery in Edinburgh, opened 2014, the city's reference sourdough kitchen and the most-loved doughnut.
Tip: Doughnuts sell out by 11:00 on Saturdays. Order via Square Online by Friday lunchtime for next-day collection.
Worth the queue: Brown butter and salted caramel doughnut
The Company Bakery on Easter Road in Edinburgh, opened 2018, a Leith sourdough kitchen and cafe with fresh-from-the-oven pastries and a small lunchtime.
Tip: Cinnamon buns sell out by 11:00. Online preorder for collection is the only reliable way on weekends.
Worth the queue: Cinnamon morning bun
Lovecrumbs cake shop on West Port in Edinburgh, opened 2010, a tea-and-cake counter in a Grassmarket-adjacent townhouse with a daily-changing slice counter.
Tip: Walk in only; the upstairs nook holds four for a quieter window.
Worth the queue: Salted caramel cake
