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A selection of standout places across East Lothian & Midlothian
Onno
Onno opened on Penicuik High Street at the end of May 2026, converting a former…
LarderW A Boak & Son
W A Boak & Son began trading at open-air markets around Edinburgh and the…
CounterNight Owl Books
Night Owl Books opened on Bridge Street in East Linton in April 2022, in a shop…
WorkshopGraham the Jeweller
Graham the Jeweller has traded on Haddington's High Street since 2011, run by…
RestMaple Cottage B&B
Maple Cottage is a bed and breakfast on Hall Crescent in Gullane, run by owner…
CellarNB Distillery
NB Distillery began as a kitchen-scale gin operation in North Berwick in 2013,…
Grounds
House of Soutra
Pathhead, SCO
Cafe beside the A68 at the summit of Soutra Hill, on the Midlothian side of the boundary with the…
Lavender Coffee & Crumbs
Dalkeith, SCO
Kasia runs this café on Dalkeith High Street on speciality coffee and what she bakes herself: the…
Macplants
Pencaitland, SCO
A family-run specialist nursery near Pencaitland, established in 1979, growing one of the wider…
Steampunk Coffee Roasters
North Berwick, SCO
Steampunk Coffee Roasters occupies a converted joinery warehouse on Kirk Ports, where beans are…
Table
Cake
North Berwick, SCO
Cake is an independently owned café on North Berwick's High Street, serving breakfast, brunch and…
La Potinière
Gullane, SCO
La Potinière occupies a small dining room on Gullane's Main Street, run by husband-and-wife team…
Mosso Cafe
Penicuik, SCO
An independent cafe on Edinburgh Road in Penicuik serving breakfast, brunch and lunch seven days a…
Onno
Penicuik, SCO
Onno opened on Penicuik High Street at the end of May 2026, converting a former butcher's shop into…
The Radhuni
Midlothian West, SCO
Indian and Bangladeshi cooking in Loanhead, minutes from Edinburgh city centre. The kitchen traces…
The Waterside Bistro
Haddington, SCO
The Waterside Bistro sits on the River Tyne in Haddington, run by James Findlay, whose father Jim…
Larder
Carfrae Farm Shop
Haddington, SCO
A farm shop at Carfrae Farm between Gifford and Garvald, reached off the B6370 or B6355, stocking…
Company Bakery
Musselburgh, SCO
Company Bakery is a sourdough bakery and café at 6 Station Road, in the Eskmills development beside…
Dunbar Community Bakery
Dunbar and East Linton, SCO
A community-owned bakery at 60 High Street, Dunbar, trading as a Community Benefit Society.…
Gosford Bothy Farm Shop & Butchery
Aberlady, SCO
Gosford Bothy Farm Shop & Butchery occupies a converted seasonal workers' bothy on the Gosford…
Kevin Watt Butchers
Haddington, SCO
Kevin Watt Butchers occupies a shopfront on Haddington's High Street and is, by local account, the…
Penicuik Storehouse
Penicuik, SCO
Community-owned grocery and cafe on Penicuik High Street, run as a co-operative with more than 800…
W A Boak & Son
Penicuik, SCO
W A Boak & Son began trading at open-air markets around Edinburgh and the Lothians in 1995, selling…
Culture
Arniston House
Gorebridge, SCO
The Dundas family have held Arniston since 1571. The present house is William Adam's, commissioned…
Dalkeith Museum
Dalkeith, SCO
A volunteer-run local history museum managed by Dalkeith History Society, housed at the rear of the…
Greens & Blues Fine Art Gallery
North Berwick, SCO
Greens & Blues Fine Art Gallery has occupied a High Street shopfront in North Berwick since 2000,…
National Mining Museum Scotland
Newtongrange, SCO
Museum at the former Lady Victoria Colliery in Newtongrange, telling the story of Scotland's coal…
Newbattle Abbey
Newbattle, SCO
Founded in 1140 as a Cistercian house and reckoned the most important medieval monastic site in the…
Rosslyn Chapel
Roslin, SCO
Collegiate chapel on Chapel Loan in Roslin, founded in 1446 and known for the density of its carved…
The Fraser Centre
Tranent, SCO
The Fraser Centre occupies the former Winton Cinema on Winton Place in central Tranent, a picture…
Workshop
Belvedere Pottery
Lasswade, SCO
The home studio of potter Maggie Longstaff, a member of the Scottish Potters Association, working…
Fingers and Thumbs
North Berwick, SCO
Fingers and Thumbs occupies a studio and shop on Church Road in North Berwick, founded by artists…
Graham the Jeweller
Haddington, SCO
Graham the Jeweller has traded on Haddington's High Street since 2011, run by husband-and-wife team…
Roslin Pottery
Roslin, SCO
Pottery studio on Main Street in Roslin, making handcrafted stoneware — botanical tiles, vases,…
The Stained Glass Studio
Eskbank, SCO
Maurice Jackson, a formally trained fine artist, makes and repairs stained glass at Eskbank —…
Winton Pottery
Pencaitland, SCO
Winton Pottery works from the former stables of Winton Castle on the Winton estate at Pencaitland,…
Counter
Blueberry Gifts
Musselburgh, SCO
An independent gift and card shop on Musselburgh High Street, founded in 2015 by Sharon Brown and…
Gibsons of Haddington
Haddington, SCO
Gibsons of Haddington is a family-run homeware, gift and jewellery shop at 60 Market Street, in the…
Green Cat Records
Dunbar, SCO
Green Cat Records is an independent record shop at 100 High Street in Dunbar, on the East Lothian…
Kesley's Bookshop
Haddington, SCO
Kesley's Bookshop sits on Market Street in Haddington, stocking fiction and non-fiction titles…
Night Owl Books
East Linton, SCO
Night Owl Books opened on Bridge Street in East Linton in April 2022, in a shop that had previously…
Pentland Plants
Loanhead, SCO
Pentland Plants is a family-run nursery and garden centre at Pentland Mains, on the southern edge…
Smeaton Nursery Gardens
East Linton, SCO
Smeaton Nursery Gardens occupies the walled garden of the Smeaton estate on Preston Road, just…
Cellar
Edinburgh Distillers
Macmerry, SCO
Edinburgh Distillers was set up in 2018 at Expo House on the Macmerry Industrial Estate near…
Kerr's Farm Brewed Ales
Rosemains, SCO
Micro-brewery in the old engine room at Rosemains Steading, a working arable farm on the Preston…
NB Distillery
North Berwick, SCO
NB Distillery began as a kitchen-scale gin operation in North Berwick in 2013, winning World's Best…
Newt Brew
Musselburgh, SCO
A small independent brewery that relocated to Inveresk Industrial Estate in Musselburgh in November…
Stewart Brewing
Loanhead, SCO
Stewart Brewing began in Steve and Jo Stewart's dining room, where a home-brew kit given to Steve…
Snug
Dean Tavern
Newtongrange, SCO
The last Gothenburg pub left in Scotland, on Main Street in Newtongrange, built for the miners of…
Old Aberlady Inn
Aberlady, SCO
A village pub and inn on West Mains Street in Aberlady, run independently with eight en-suite…
Ship Inn
North Berwick, SCO
The Ship Inn occupies a corner site on Quality Street in North Berwick, close to the harbour and…
The Original Rosslyn Inn
Roslin, SCO
Village pub and inn on Main Street in Roslin, close to Rosslyn Chapel, serving cask ale and pub…
Volunteer Arms (Staggs)
Musselburgh, SCO
The Volunteer Arms, known locally as Staggs, has stayed in the same family's hands on Musselburgh's…
Rest
Chapel Cross Guesthouse
Roslin, SCO
Family-run guesthouse on the Penicuik Road in Roslin, about three hundred metres from Rosslyn…
Glenarch House
Eskbank, Dalkeith, SCO
A family-run guest house on Melville Road in Eskbank, offering two guest rooms and a self-catering…
Maple Cottage B&B
Gullane, SCO
Maple Cottage is a bed and breakfast on Hall Crescent in Gullane, run by owner Heather Baxter for…
Number One
Haddington, SCO
Number One is a privately owned townhouse guest house on Kilpair Street, a quiet lane just off the…
Pentland Shepherd Huts
Penicuik, SCO
Five shepherd huts on a working livery yard at Braidlaw Farmhouse, on the Carlops Road below the…
The Dolphin Inn
Dunbar, SCO
The Dolphin Inn occupies a building in Dunbar's conservation area, close to East Beach, run as an…
The Eskbank Hotel
Eskbank, SCO
Seven rooms in a Victorian walled garden inside the Eskbank and Newbattle Abbey conservation area —…
Tweeddale Arms Hotel
Gifford, SCO
Family-run, independently owned hotel in a restored 17th-century building on Gifford High Street,…
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