press coffee

press coffee, 30 buccleuch street, is a chilled out, light, white space with wooden floor boards, white walls, a high ceiling and dark tables and chairs.

it's in the vicinity of the rambling edinburgh university and, in the way of food, stock soups, panini, scones, breakfast rolls, smoothies and tray bakes/sweet things.

this is one of four edinburgh coffee shops owned by the same barista (jonathan sharp), along with wellington coffee, project coffee and kilimanjaro coffee. all use square mile coffee and their perfectly consistent and passionate baristas work in more than one shop in any given week or month which you'll notice if you try more than one cafe.

i tried the flat white and as you'd expect the coffee is cracking -seriously excellent, as it is with all these joints. square mile rotates their coffee seasonally but it's always rich, complex and unlike any other coffee i've tasted in this fine town. really distinctive. the milk is temperature perfect and the texture velvety, packed with micro bubbles and smooth from top to bottom.

another big thumbs up! (am also rather fond of the blue cups)

- coffee: square mile plus guests
- coolness: edinburgh uni heartland