Starbucks in Edinburgh


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Dalkeith - Bonnyrigg Rd DT, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: 10/2/2021, PHOTO: 9/3/2023

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Edinburgh - Canongate, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

This store has a particularly artistic bent. You will find snippets of poetry painted on the walls throughout. Look harder and you will find a display of lino-cut images, and also, tucked away in a corner, a pair of very old engravings--one is the Canongate Tolbooth, and I forget what the other one is.

Edinburgh - Colinton Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

This store, just outside the city center, is one of the more charming in Edinburgh because of it's location inside a cute little house. The store has some interesting local artwork, including a painting of nearby Morningside Road.
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Edinburgh - Craigleith Retail, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 9/3/2023

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Edinburgh - Forrest Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

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Edinburgh - George St/Hanover, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

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Edinburgh - George Street, 106, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

This store displays a map with the name "Kirkwood's Plan & Elevation of the New Town of Edinburgh".
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Edinburgh - Gyle, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/27/2009

Actual visit June 28.

Edinburgh - Haymarket Station, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/27/2009

I was expecting a kiosk, but this location turned out to be one of the prettiest railway station stores, cozy with a brick interior.

Edinburgh - Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

At first glance this store seems fairly ordinary, but if you look closer at the wall to your left, you will see a tryptich of watercolors of the store painted by a local barista.
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Edinburgh - Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

I wish the street construction had not prevented me from shooting from a wider angle so you could see how ornate the building is. Inside, the store is one of the most ornate in the city. It is built inside an old bank, and when you go downstairs you can actually see the vault door. Another interesting feature is that to get to the toilets you have to cross a room that is small, but just big enough, that you could almost start up a discotheque down there.
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Edinburgh - Straiton Retail Pa, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 9/3/2023

This store is unusual for one in a British retail park because it has two storeys.
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Edinburgh - Waverley Steps, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: 1/18/2013, PHOTO: 8/26/2015

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Edinburgh- Middle Meadow Walk, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

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Edinburgh -Ocean Terminal-Leve, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009


Edinburgh St James Quarter, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: 6/24/2021, PHOTO: 9/3/2023

This beautiful store is the flagship for Edinburgh.
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Edinburgh-Lothian Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

This store, one of the oldest in the city, has three seating areas. The main one in lobby, a second one that offers a little bit of privacy, and a third one way in the back that offers even more privacy. But what you should really notice are the *really* old programmes from the Royal Lyceum Theatre--one even dates back to 1887!
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Edinburgh-Royal Mile, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/27/2009

Be sure to go upstairs and look for the numerous posters promoting the world-famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival. From the second floor you can get a good view of the plaza, which is nearly always busy with visitors, making this, at times, one of the busiest stores in Europe.
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Edinburgh-Waterstones, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

This, the first store in Edinburgh, is one of just two locations in Waterstones bookstores.
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Fort Kinnaird Drive To, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: 11/29/2017 (approx), PHOTO: 9/3/2023

This spectacular store benefits from ample natural lighting and a strikingly unusual building design.
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Edinburgh - The Cube, Edingurgh, United Kingdom

OPENED: 12/21/2011, PHOTO: 3/26/2012

This newest Edinburgh store does in fact look as cool in the inside as the building facade appears.
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Livingston Designer Outlet, Livingston, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/27/2009

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Murrayfield - Sainsbury`s, Murrayfield, United Kingdom

OPENED: 3/29/2023 (approx), PHOTO: 9/3/2023

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Edinburgh - Stockbridge, Stockbridge, United Kingdom

OPENED: ???, PHOTO: 6/28/2009

This store offers a seating area that can be reserved for meetings and curtained off.
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Stores Not Visited

ATTENTION

Because of a glitch on the Starbucks website, this list is missing an unspecified number of stores that opened after July 1, 2024. Any remote stores that are not near any other stores will be missing, unless I found an article or social media post, and it is possible that other stores are mising also.


Edinburgh Princes Street
Edinburgh


Closed Stores
Note that if the name of a store listed as closed has a link, that indicates that the store was converted to a licensed store (or possibly franchised, if in the UK or France).
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??? ??? Edinburgh - Borders (Closed)
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??? Oct 2023 (approx) Edinburgh - Princes Street
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Closed Before I Could Visit
Note that some of these stores might be phantoms--they never actually existed.
Edinburgh-Exchange Crescent(Closed)


Licensed Stores
My Starbucking rule regarding store ownership are complicated and will be explained fully in my as-yet-unpublished book, but here are the basics. If Starbucks has a proper company in a country, such as Starbucks United States or Starbucks United Kingdom, then I only count stores operated, in whole or in part (sometimes there are partnerships) by Starbucks. In these countries, stores operated under license by other companies do not count. In most countries, however, Starbucks operates stores in a joint venture with another company (such as Tata in India) or licenses the brand to a primary (exclusive or semi-exclusive) partner, such as Alsea in Latin America and western Europe or Al-Shaya in the Middle East). In such cases I visit stores operated by those primary licensees, but not stores licensed to secondary licensees such as SSP or HMSHost. Additionally, in the U.K. and France, Starbucks franchises to a small set of companies, and I do not count those stores. Finally, note that some stores listed below might have closed down.
Gogarburn Kiosk
Gogarburn Mall Cafe