Cafe on the Mound

Two of our new vegan breakfast choices

Festival cast & crew will get a special welcome !

Festival timings

When shows are on late in Assembly Hall next door we will remain open until 9pm

By popular demand we have extended the vegan choices on our menu from today:

Full Vegan breakfast including Which? Magazine’s Best Buy Miami sausages and McSween’s vegan haggis
Dairy free overnight steel cut oats with chia seeds and choice of fruit
Vegan yoghurt granola, toasted almonds, chia seeds & choice of fruit
Vegan pancakes
Chef Maja’s home-made vegan Mac ‘n’ Cheese

While more than half our menu choices are now vegan or vegetarian, our Full Scottish Breakfast and Fully Filled Roll choices continue, with lean, back bacon, premium pork sausage and haggis supplied by local butcher Campbell’s.

Our menu is new but our prices are unchanged.

Red Arrows over Cafe on the Mound. Thanks to Toni Noble and Mike Gillam for the pics

Someone you don't see on our street every day

We are closed over Christmas and New Year. We reopen on Tuesday 3 January. A Happy New Year to all our patrons!

Easier to find us in the dark now. (Just to the left of this sign)

🎄 A giant Edinburgh sign has appeared on the Mound

Just a few steps away from Edinburgh's Christmas

On our doorstep

More than 92,000 flock to Edinburgh's Christmas festival ahead of ice rink unveiling More than 92,000 people have flocked to the opening week of Edinburgh’s Christmas festival.

Just up the road from us. The cannonball is still there, however it arrived.

Cannonball House

This is a super detail from a George Washington Wilson glass slide showing the gable of Cannonball House on Castlehill. The name 'Cannonball House' is derived from the cannonball that is stuck into the wall (between the bottom ledge of the upper large window and the top edge of the lower large window). It is very clear here and looks only recently cemented.

The likeliest story as to why the cannonball is there is to mark the exact height above sea-level of the Comiston reservoir which provided Edinburgh with piped supply of fresh water.

It is nothing to do with a drunken One o'clock gunner or Bonnie Prince Charlie's stay down at Holyrood in 1745 or Mary Queen of Scots exuberance throwing a skittle ball.

Thanks to George Ferguson for this detail.

Our next door neighbour

One of Edinburgh Old Town’s finest hidden gems, The Writers' Museum!💎📚

📍 Lady Stair's Close, Visit Edinburgh
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"The story never ends in Edinburgh" Click here
https://edinburgh.org/storyneverends for things to see and do around Cafe on the Mound.

Beautiful shot of the cafe from the distance

The Lone Piper

This is a shot I have been planning for a long time. There were so many elements required to achieve this, almost all of which were out of my control. In fact, there was a period, after a few months, where I wasn’t sure if it was going to happen at all. Following a few failed attempts I finally got the conditions I was looking for, along with a piper up for the challenge at very short notice.

Prints available, link posted in the comments below

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Adam

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Open 9.30 to 4.30 Monday to Saturday

Not long now....

We are working on it. Getting ready to reopen on 26 April.

We hope there will be some shows here next door this August.

The New College gates were open today. Nipped in for a photo for the first time in months.