Markets and independent shops in Edinburgh

250 markets, bookshops, record shops and makers in Edinburgh.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first. Showing the top 40 of 250.

Photo: GodeNehler, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)

BuyRecord shopNew Town
Vinyl Villains
Second-hand vinyl record shop with a great selection, quality stock and reasonable prices. They also have CDs, T-shirts, posters and fanzines.
Mon-Sat 10:30AM-6PM, Sun 1-5PMDog friendly
BuySpecialty food shopNew Town
Valvona & Crolla
Legendary Italian deli founded in 1934. Its grey frontage is unassuming, but it stretches back through a wonderland of food. There's a small bright cafe in the back, where you'll be lucky to get seated.
Mon-Sat 9AM-6PM
BuySpecialty food shopNew Town
Real Foods
The original Edinburgh "health food" shop, opened in 1975. Sells a wide range of loose and packet dried goods, some vegetarian ready meals and snacks and a small selection of organic fruit and veg.
Mon-Sat 9AM-7PM, Sun 10AM-6PM
BuyRecord shopOld Town
Underground Solu'shn
A great little record store dealing mainly in dance/electro music.
Mon-Fri 9AM-6PM, Sat 10AM-6PM, Sun 11AM-5PM
BuyRecord shopStockbridge and Canonmills
VoxBox Music
An independent record shop. They sell a range of collectible records, mainly used vinyl but also some new CDs and box sets.
Wed Sun noon-5PM, Sat 11AM-5PM, Sun noon-4PM
BuyGift shopNew Town
Paper Tiger
Classy selection of cards, home accessories, toys and gifts. Their other branches are at 53 Lothian Rd and 194 Morningside Rd.
Mon-Sat 10AM-6PM, Sun 11AM-5PM
BuyOld Town
Armstrongs
A local institution, this has a huge stock of vintage clothing and uniforms, including pre-hirpled kilts.
Mon-Sat 10AM-5:30PM, Sun noon-6PM
BuyLeith
Asda
The biggest local supermarket, with pharmacy, opticians, travel money and filling station.
24 hours
BuyOld Town
Cadenhead's Whisky Shop
This Campbeltown-based firm is an independent bottler of whisky and other spirits (a rarity nowadays), so they do bespoke sales and samplers.
Mon-Sat 10:30-5:30PM
BuySouth
Cameron Toll
Large shopping centre with Aldi and Sainsburys supermarkets, other chain stores and filling station.
Mon-Sat 7:30AM-10PM, Sun 8AM-8PM
BuyNew Town
Crombies
Award-winning butchers shop, established 1955. Great quality local meat, especially their range of sausages.
Mon-Sat 7AM-7PM
BuyStockbridge and Canonmills
Edina Lock & Key
Ironmonger and locksmith. If you like the brass door furniture you've seen on the traditional townhouses in the New Town, this is the place to pick up the knobs, knockers, numbers and letter-boxes you need to make your own front door look the same. A real treasure-trove of a shop.
Mon-Fri 9:30AM-4:30PM
BuyOld Town
Focus
Skatewear and skateboard store, friendly knowledgeable staff.
Mon-Sat 10AM-6PM, Sun noon-6PM
BuySouth
Great Grog
Independent store with a good selection of local and international beers, wines and spirits.
Mon-Thu 11AM-9PM, Fri Sat 11AM-10PM, Sun noon-8PM
BuyNew Town
Harburn Hobbies
Family-run business established in the 1930s. Specialises in model railways, including some items exclusive to this shop. Also die-cast model vehicles, Scalextric slot car racing systems and plastic and wooden model construction kits.
Mon-Sat 10AM-5PM
BuyLeith
Ocean Terminal
A huge undercover shopping centre with the usual High Street chain shops and a Vue cinema plus bars and food outlets. It was built on former shipyards and intended as a terminal for cruise passengers, but by 2001 when it opened cruisers had grown to humongous size too big for the harbour approaches and wharves. Britannia was then permanently moored alongside, so even smaller vessels can no longer dock here.
Mon 10AM-6PM, Tue-Sat 10AM-8PM, Sun 11AM-6PM
BuyNew Town
Slater Menswear
Eastern outpost of the famous Glasgow institution. Broad range at keen prices with helpful service.
Mon-Wed Fri Sat 8:30AM-5:30PM, Thu 8:30AM-8:30PM
BuySouth
Waitrose
A branch of the national supermarket chain. Free rooftop parking.
Mon-Fri 8AM-9PM, Sat 8AM-8PM, Sun 9AM-8PM
BuyNew Town
Waverley Market
Upmarket mainstream shops in a covered mall above Waverley station.
Daily 9AM-8PM
BuyEast
Fort Kinnaird
A massive out-of-town retail complex (supposedly the biggest of its type in the UK), next to the A1 dual carriageway as it heads out of town to the south-east. Lots of mainstream chain shops.
BuyWest
Gyle Shopping Centre
Indoor shopping centre with Marks and Spencer, Morrisons and some 50 other shops.
BuyLeith
Hing Sing
Chinese supermarket with food items from across south-east Asia, plus crockery and cooking utensils. Great for those hard-to-find ingredients but even items stocked by mainstream supermarkets are often better value here.
Mon-Sat 10AM-6PM, Sun 10AM-5PM
BuyNew Town
St James Quarter
Shopping centre which opened in 2021, replacing the tired St James Centre, includes John Lewis department store, and 3 floors of mid- and up-market chain stores. Also here are the W Hotel, Roomzzz aparthotel and several restaurants. Too bad about the curling tapered roof sculpture, which looks like a... well, enough to spoil the view.
BuyGift shopStockbridge and Canonmills
Rare Birds Book Shop
Specialising in books by women writers.
Daily 10AM-5:30PM
BuyWest
Corstorphine Retail Park
Small retail park with fast food, Lidl and a large Tesco, overshadowed nowadays by the Gyle Centre.
BuySouth Not mapped
Drinkmonger
They offer a very good selection of whiskies, wines, beers and other spirits.
Mon-Wed 10AM-7PM, Thu-Sat 10AM-8PM, Sun 10AM-6PM
BuyStockbridge and Canonmills Not mapped
IJ Mellis
Specialist cheesemonger with a range of farmhouse and artisan cheeses from all over Scotland, the UK and Europe. Their other branches are in Morningside, Victoria St, Glasgow and St Andrews.
Mon-Sat 8AM-8PM, Sun 8AM-5PM
BuyStockbridge and Canonmills Not mapped
Sheila Fleet
Jewellery designer whose work reflects the lore and natural world of her native Orkney.
Daily 10AM-5:30PM
BuyOld Town
Red Door Gallery
Arts and crafts and giftware.
Daily 10AM-6PM
BuySouth
Scotmid Coop
Convenience supermarket in Tolcross.
Daily 7AM-10PM
BuyNew Town
The Dragonfly
Funky little shop with a lovely range of cards and gifts.
Mon-Fri noon-6PM, Sat Sun 11AM-5PM
BuyArt shop
Fine Art Society
Previously trading as Bourne Fine Art, the gallery merged with The Fine Art Society, London in 2004. The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh, deals in Scottish paintings and sculpture from the 17th century to the present.
Open now · closes 6 pm
BuyDeli
Lupe Pintos
Authentic imported products from Spain, Mexico, America and spices from all over the world
Open now · closes 6 pm
BuyBookshop
Robert Murray Stamp Shop
shop for stamp collectors, with hundreds of thousands of items of stock always available
"variable hours given at www.stamp-shop.com"
BuyDeli
Good Food
255 Morningside Road
Open now · closes 5 pmLimited wheelchair access
BuyArt shop
The House of Smalls
101-103 Henderson Row
Open now · closes 6 pm
BuyRecord shop
Good Vibes Neighbourhood Store
151-153 Constitution Street
Closed · opens 11 am Thursday
BuyArt shop
Portal Leith
59 Bernard Street
Closed · opens 11 am Wednesday
BuyCraft shop
Greyfriars Art Shop
20 Dundas Street
Open now · closes 5 pm
BuyDeli
Leaf & Bean
12-14 Comiston Road
Open now · closes 5 pm

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