The Milkman

you're on cockburn street, halfway down that curve between the old town tenements and the station steps, and the milkman sits right where you'd want a coffee stop to sit. locals rate this place, and you feel that the second you step in off the cobbles. no pretense, no queue theatrics, just people who know their way around a espresso and don't need to announce it. the street outside gets loud with tourists heading up to the castle or down to waverley, but inside it's steadier, quieter, the kind of place where you can actually hear yourself order. it's a good stop whether you're killing twenty minutes before a train or settling in with a book for the afternoon. go for a flat white around 10am, before the street fills up, and take it to one of the window seats facing cockburn street.