Cuckoo's Bakery in Edinburgh, City of

Cosy atmosphere, friendly staff, delicious coffee & food. What more could you want?

Stumbled in on the off chance trying to escape the rain, wonderful sourdough toastie, lovely hot chocolate and one of the best cupcakes I have ever tasted. Great ambience and friendly staff. Perfect

Wonderful food and very warm staff. Lovely scoun with slotted cream and over the top carrot cupcake! Highly recommend!

Very cute little cafe, large selection of pancakes and very good tea

Delightful Coffee in the September Sunshine...

Great place for lunch. Sandwiches, soups, cakes. Excellent service.

Nipped into here today lovely looking place . . Bought 6 little cupcakes and was shocked to see it cost me £22.50 very over priced. Krispy kream does 12 doughnuts for that price . The jolly does pizza n pasta for 2 at this price . Shocked to say the least ..

A great place for coffee and cake ! We frequent Cuckoo’s at Bruntsfield on a regular basis so were pleased to try out this outlet and see the larger menu . This café is table service unlike other Cuckoo’s, a sign would be helpful as most customers stood a while in a queue to then be told to take a table. Staff were pleasant and cafe warm and welcoming so we Would definitely recommend a visit if you are in the area, we will be back.

I passed this café on my way to the botanical garden on foot and decided to take a little break there. This tea room is charming, the welcome and the service adorable. I had an Earl Gray tea which was delicious and a red velvet cupcake which was also very good. There is a large selection of cupcakes but also some French pastries and scones. I will come back when I have the chance.

Best coffee in Edinburgh… worth a visit. Plus delicious treats. Cheers Australian visitors

Very cute cafe where you can have your afternoon tea, with many options in tea and cakes

We ordered a small cake for our elopement and it was one of the best cakes I’ve ever eaten. I live in the US and wish I could get it delivered, it was INCREDIBLE. The service here is also amazing, super kind people!

Delicious cupcakes and coffee. Not sure why the cupcake prices are not displayed.

Great coffees, scone and carrot cake. Service with a smile and would highly recommend. 5 stars.

Very tasty breakfast. Extremely helpful and friendly service. We recommend!

Delicious cakes and scones to die for. Very busy

Great loose leaf tea selection and the staff are always friendly and welcoming!

Perfect, succulent, delicious, I'm a fan of carrot cake and this is the temple of cakes. I discovered this place while visiting the botanical garden and what a surprise! Too bad I was leaving the next day but I would come back to Scotland to taste your delicious cakes. Heartwarming welcome.

Lovely cakes and coffee with great service.

They provided cupcakes and my cake for my wedding. Admittedly, I think I was more excited for the cake than anything else (except for marrying my husband, of course) because they are phenomenal. All my guests said it was the best wedding cake they’ve ever had and devoured the cupcakes. Whenever I’m in Edinburgh, I’ll make it a point to visit their bakery!

Super reasonable prices for excellent coffee & sourdough toasties

I’m not really a cupcake person but having tried the brownies in the past (they’re amazing!), I wanted to try one - was the best cupcake I’ve had in a very long time. Highly recommend trying the strawberry cheesecake. Service was great too!

Best brownie that I ever tried.

I visited twice on a recent trip to Edinburgh: once for lunch and cake and once for breakfast. The croissants were delicious. They had an excellent choice of cupcakes, including vegan ones. There were themed cupcakes aswell (I was very happy to see Taylor Swift ones relating to her concert that night). Cute inside aswell. Light and airy. Would recommend you pay a visit.

very good! great coffee, good pastries, lovely staff, friendly environment Fiona and Cassandra

Coffee was great and the cupcakes were brilliant! Staff were really welcoming to everyone sitting in or taking away. Can't wait to go back.

Best flat white in Edinburgh! Everything delicious! Try the croissant with cheese and ham and also the passion fruit and lemon iced tea! Perfect!

O mais delicioso flat white (café com leite) de Edimburgo!! E o croissant maravilhoso também! Atendimento perfeito! Frequentado pelos locais.

Some of the best soup I have ever had and cheese scones are amazing went twice I may and try to go once before we leave if I'm back to scotland I'll definitely be back for lunch

The cheesecake is great. Especially ask for coffee with breakfast. It creates a wonderful flavor with butter, jam and cream. We came here for breakfast 2 days in a row.

Ordered a large vanilla celebration cake, totally delicious and generous. Would def use them again

Great soup with a cheese scone. Really good selection of teas. Cakes look amazing, but too full to be tempted. Reasonable prices for the centre of Edinburgh (Grindlay St., opposite the Lyceum.

Delightful little place to stop for a spell. The ambiance is worth the stop. The baked goods are delicious, but with so many good bakeries in Edinburgh it is hard to go wrong

Have now visited on a couple of occasions and will return again. Soup and sandwiches were very nice and the cupcakes are too good to avoid buying when you're in! Lovely atmosphere inside, the staff are always very pleasant and it's dog friendly.

Nipped in to use the facilities on my way towards the Botanic Garden, bought a delicious flat white. I was served by a delightful woman, who was helpful with a smile. The cakes and pastries on offer looked very yummy indeed. Loos were in tip top condition.

What a great discovery close to Edinburgh's city center! Lovely music, ambiance and service, not to mention the delicious cupcakes and cappuccino! I will definitely come back during my stay in the capital.

I visited this cafe twice during my stay at Edinburgh, delicious food and friendly staff. I would definitely recommend this place.

Heart warming soup and signature cheesy scones, excellent fondant filled cupcakes and refined selection of loose leaf teas. All packaged up in a cute and cosy cafe. The only place we revisited whilst in the city for 5 days.

Nice address we found just walking in the streets, nice place, nice coffee and nice cupcakes !! The place is also dog friendly :)

Online order from USA to daughter in Edinburgh: delivery was a surprise for her and the vegan cupcakes were a delicious and perfect gift. Amazing staff as well. Easy to order.

Amazing scones and cupcakes served here. These are my fav Sunday treats! So yummy!

Very cosy place for a tea and cake, lovely staff and reasonable prices

I got a gorgeous cappuccino with incredible taste and texture!😍

Another great birthday cake, this time I ordered the Lemon & White Chocolate for my mums 90th. Like our previous order the cake was delivered direct to the venue which left me time to sort other stuff out - we live Devon/Cornwall borders and don’t have a car when we are up. The sponge was zesty like a lemon drizzle and the lemon curd just added to the deliciousness.

Nice Place, wonderful people and super food

Service was perfect and friendly! Food & coffee was amazing! I would highly recommend 🙌

What a lovely find … Fiona and Frances were so welcoming excellent customer service… delicious pastries and amazing cupcakes Give it a try

The vegan oreo cake I had was delicious

Petit café charmant, calme, à l'écart de l'agitation du centre-ville. Nous avons juste pris un chocolat chaud maison délicieux et un café. Service très sympathique. Idéal se reposer et prendre une boisson chaude.

The ladies working at this cafe are absolutely wonderful!

Delicious chocolate cake for 40th birthday - very smooth ordering process online, good visuals for choosing what you want, helpful on the phone and in the shop. Recommend highly for all your cake buying needs. Only sad that all the guests ate so much cake, so not much left to enjoy at home!

Accueil très agréable - un bon chocolat aux marshmallow et crème chantilly ! Les scones sont très bon notamment ceux au cheese

Had my first cake from here yesterday after my partner received a box for a gift. I don’t know what was on top of the cake but can only describe it as the smoothest most delicious icing I’ve ever tasted, I’ve told everyone about it. I will definitely be making a trip to buy some as I want more! There was a tiny cube of fudge on top of the cake and it was delightful and just the right size . What a treat indeed.

Ordered their Highland Coo cupcakes, they were so accommodating in swapping out the filling for a non-alcoholic option and the cupcake delivery was seamless. Cupcakes were absolutely delicious!

Visited the Grindle St bakery yesterday and had a very tasty lunch, delicious leek & potato soup with a super tasty cheese scone (loved the peppery flavour) and then the most heavenly carrot cake cupcake which had a twist of orange zest in it, so good…sweet but this zestiness offset it perfectly. Will definitely be coming back to try more of the menu. Staff were very friendly and efficient too. Great value for money in a stylish setting. 🥰

Our whole family use cuckoo's regularly. Coffee and bakery are great as are the lovely staff who are friendly and efficient. Nice environment too with couple of outside tables. Good value. Go there once and you'll go back.

A good place to go if you are looking for a cosy, cutesy cafe in Edinburgh.

We ordered a huge cake for a retirement party . It was fabulous- moist and delicious and it looked great . Many thanks to the bakers and the team for great service .

Excellent focaccia with very tasty filling. Coffee and cake also first class. Charming and helpful staff.

The menu that is in the link doesn’t not match what the menu at the cafe says. We went for French toast,eggs etc but they was only two toasties on the menu.

I actually have not come in person but I used their services to get a cake delivered for a friend. I spoke to this fantastic and sharp woman called Fiona who was warm, funny, superbly helpful and made my experience on the phone such a seamless and pleasant one. Fantastic customer service. I would order all my cakes here just to interact with Fiona! Thanks a lot Fiona 💕😊

Cuckoo’s is my absolute favourite cafe in the area. The team are brilliant and happy, the coffee is delicious and the red velvet cupcakes are incredible! Highly recommend this place.

We ordered a cake from Cukoos for a large party. The ordering process was straight forwards and the cake delivered to our venue with no hassle. The cake was absolutely delicious and complimented by so many guests. We will be returning again!

Me and my son LOVE this café. The drinks and cakes are divine but what makes it truly special are the women who work there. They are so kind and welcoming to every single person who comes in, it’s true Scottish and Italian hospitality at its finest. They make such a fuss of my little 3 year old who calls it the ‘Funny Lady Café’ because they’re always trying to make him laugh. A truly perfect spot for a coffee, one of their incredible hot chocolates or a delicious cake. One of Edinburgh’s best cafés without a doubt. Photo is from my son’s birthday, when they brought the cake with a candle on it and sang to him 😍

Headed down to Cuckoo’s to get something sweet! Great selection of cakes considering it was 3-4 in the afternoon - I had an Oreo cupcake, whilst my partner had a Nutella cupcake - both were delicious and fresh!! We had a dark hot chocolate also which was spot on. Not sure of waiter’s name, but she was lovely and attentive! Also, with it being approx 1 mile from centre/markets, it wasn’t heaving busy! Would defo recommend

I’ve been to Cuckoo’s a couple of times and always loved how cosy and welcoming it is. Great coffee, comfy seats, lovely staff and obviously yummy cupcakes. Realised very last minute I’d promised to get some birthday cupcakes for work and they were so helpful! Made up two boxes of awesome Halloween themed delights for one of my colleagues, who loves all things spooky. ‘Dead’ velvet and stewed apple and bones were particular faves! We ate them so fast I forgot to take pictures 🙈.

Kleines Café mit wenigen Tischen. Freundlicher Service, nette Atmosphäre aber leider nur " mittelmäßige" Muffins. Das Gebäck ist sehr süß und der Teig leider etwas trocken. Leider habe ich mir bei den guten Bewertungen etwas mehr erwartet. Aber Geschmäcker sind ja bekanntlich verschieden

The waitress was extremely impertinent and passive aggressive. I ordered a cheese scone and peppermint tea but what came was a fruit scone and black tea. When I asked her about it, she questioned my memory. “Are you sure?!” I think I would know my own order at the very least. She then gestured at the poster and claimed that the cream tea deal doesn’t include cheese scones. I don’t know how true this is as the poster is very general and just said scone. After that, she started slamming the dishes loudly at the counter. Very unpleasant. Will not be coming back which is a pity because the scone was quite decent.

staff were lovely and accomodating

What a lovely place. Great food and fab staff. Will be back 👍😊

This was a beautiful bakery with a wide variety of delights to choose from, loved it when I visited Edinburgh, would for sure go again and recommend to others!!

Gabriella made us very welcome and served excellent teas and coffee. The vegan raspberry cup cakes were excellent

We bought four cupcakes and two of them were absolutely delicious with super moist cake (and quite a bit of frosting!). But the other two were the exact opposite; they were terribly dry and almost stale tasting, despite being bought and tried on the same day. Would love to give a higher rating but we threw away half our order which was a shame.

My husband and I ordered cupcakes for our wedding and they were a huge hit! We loved that there were many options for unique flavors and the delivery and set up was done without any worry on our end. I highly recommend!

Lovely raspberry and white chocolate blondie!

I wouldn't order from this place again. From pictures I saw the website, what they show and what they deliver is completely different. I sent them an email but the owner really doesn't seem to care about the quality of what they send out. The whole point of paying their premium is for the design but if they can't guarantee that what's the point of ordering from them? This was meant to be a gift and what was sent out left me really disappointed.

Ordered some last minute custom cupcakes for delivery for a birthday! The team at Cuckoo’s got them all made and delivered in two days. Really happy with the service and the cupcakes tasted great and turned out exactly how I wanted them! Thank you 😀

We ordered a Banana & Sea Salted Caramel cake online for our wedding and it has been absolutely delicious! Thank you :)

Fantastic cake that I ordered to be delivered to the hotel me and my partner was staying at.

Walked 30 minutes for the cupcakes and it was definitely worth it!

I nearly died of joy the cupcakes were so good!

Coffee was so nice, great atmosphere and don't even get me started on the amazing cupcakes! Unbelievable, icing and flavours where to die for 🤤

Lovely light cupcakes chock full of flavour and the Biscoff Milkshake is to die for!

Cuckoo Bakery is just a sweet little shop. Hard to go wrong with cupcakes and cookies (and more!). Personally, I think there is more frosting than necessary, and they don't have my favorite as a standard flavor (a caramel sponge with a creamy caramel centre topped with dark chocolate wrapped around a fluffy italian meringue), but we've tried a variety of flavors, and they rarely go wrong. In the absence of the 'Hugs and Kisses' cupcake, my go-to is 'Chocolate and Sea-Salted Caramel'. Their empire biscuits are lovely with their tea and coffee.

Bought a CHOCOLATE & SEA SALTED CARAMEL cake for my wife's birthday. Short timescale delivery exactly when promised. The cake was absolutely delicious! Highly recommended.

Great cup cakes but also a great lunch menu. Great service 😉

Ordered a special wee box of lovely cakes for my daughter and her husbands wedding anniversary. Fantastic delivery service and thank you so much for doing what you do! You are appreciated. June

My daughter was absolutely delighted with the cupcakes we ordered for her birthday. The gift packaging and card were beautiful, the cupcakes looked delicious and they arrived early on the day of her birthday. We live overseas so to be able to order from her favourite bakery and receive such good service is a real bonus - can’t recommend them enough.

쿠쿠베이커리는 인스타를 통해 오랬동안 잘 알고 있었습니다. 업로드하는 컵케이크들이 너무 예쁘고 계절에 맞게 아이싱으로 표현하는 것이 특히 인상적이었는데요. 항상 에덴버러에 가면 꼭 가 보고 싶었던 카페였어요. 지난 겨울 코로나가 터지기 전에 에덴버러로 3박 4일 여행을 갔다 왔어요. 도착한 다음날 브런치를 먹으로 아기를 동반한 저희 일행은 모두 6명이었어요. 이슬비가 주룩주룩 내리며 좀 추운 스코트랜드의 날씨였지만 카페 내부는 아늑하고 좋았습니다. 저희 일행은 컵케이크와 샌드위치 종류를 주문했고, 특히 컵케이크는 아이싱으로 너무 귀엽게 장식이 되어 있어서 먹기가 아까울 정도였어요. 정말 매일 먹고 싶은 맛이였어요. 아기 우유병도 직원분께서 친절하게 데어주시기까지 했어요. 빨리 코로나가 종식돼서 다시 꼭 방문하고 싶네요. 에덴버러에 방문할 기회가 있으시면 꼭 들려보세요. 컵케이크는 무조건 강추고요!

I ordered “Coo” cupcakes for my daughter and flatmates in Veterinary School. They’re adorable😍Well packaged and delivered on time.

We ordered our wedding cake from Cuckoos and right from the start they were totally on board with our elegant Halloween theme. Fiona was so friendly when helping me navigate the order and Vickie was brilliantly creative when designing the cake. I loved that they were so open to my ideas and turned them into something absolutely amazing. We had a cake tasting at the start of the process and it is still one of our favourite memories of wedding planning – cake for breakfast remains the best way to start the day! We opted to keep our order the same even though we had to reduce the number of guests; we sent lots of people home with cake and dropped some at the doorsteps of family who couldn’t make it, and worked our way through the rest in the week after the wedding. I’d recommend their cupcakes any day because they always taste delicious, and the wedding cake was no different! Beautiful fluffy sponge with delicious filling and icing, and with such a wide range of flavours allowing you to create something unique to you!

Great choice of celebration cakes which I selected from their website. They are so helpful and professional and went that extra mile to ensure delivery was early,to accomodate my request, and were happy to do so - great customer service..The cake was seriously DELICIOUS (white chocolate & raspberry) and got 7 stars from the birthday man! Please let's keep supporting bakeries like this!

Extremely helpful and happily met my request for delivery, to accomodate timing for the person receiving their birthday cake. The cake was delicious (white choc and raspberry). Very professional and friendly crew - well done Rupert!

I ordered a cake for my daughters 21st birthday,to be delivered to her flat.The cake was a great success it looked wonderful and tasted delicious. Rupert was really accommodating with the delivery. Highly recommended.

LoVe this bakery! Have enjoyed and indulged in their wonderful cakes for years. Have placed two recent orders, both with special requests. Big thank you to this friendly team who were happy to help even when one request was at the last minute.

Visited cuckoos today for a bite for lunch. There was only drinks cakes and soup available so my mum and i had the soup and a cheese scone and tea for two. Soup and scones were homemade and delicious. The tea was loose leaf and what my mum would call real tea! Staff were pleasant. Highly recommended.

Having fallen in love with Cuckoos when I stayed in Edinburgh I knew there was nowhere else I’d want to get my wedding cake from. They were very accommodating in delivering to Glasgow. The cake was amazing and we’re still enjoying eating it over a week on from our wedding! The initial tasting earlier this year was also a lovely experience with tea/coffee and an abundance of cakes try. Quality products and friendly staff.

love this place... favourite and relaxing spot to enjoy cuppa tea. their food tastes amazing.

Passed in to purchase a couple of lovely fresh fruit scones to take away and have in the car, we are keen to support small local business during these Covid times. Avoided the supermarket as there's nothing quite like freshly made and local - the shop looked nice.At the counter, I asked for jam on my fruit scone...answer - we cannot do jam with take-away - I asked why? Answer, we have a big tub of jam and we cannot spread it on! I accepted this as others were waiting - although it is very off to hear this. In the bag, she put a couple of butters and a plastic knife.When in car, we went to spread the butter to find it was rock hard from the fridge and the scone was not fresh at all. Dry and stale.I would have thought the simplest and easiest thing in the world would be to serve a scone with fresh butter than could be spread...even with some jam.Come on Cuckoo Bakery - very poor show, I mean....really?

I contacted Cuckoo's bakery to order a cake to get delivered to a friend. They were super friendly and handled everything perfectly.