The Spotty Bag Shop

old market place in banff isn't the kind of address that gets written up in trend pieces, and the spotty bag shop doesn't seem to need that. what it does well is straightforward: good coffee, taken seriously, in a town where that still means something. you're not coming here because banff is on some specialty circuit, you're coming because this is genuinely where the better cup is. banff itself sits on the aberdeenshire coast, unhurried and a little austere in the way northeast scotland tends to be, and the shop fits that register without any of the self-consciousness you get in city-centre independents. no performance required. just show up on a quiet weekday morning, order whatever's pulling well that day, and let old market place do the rest.