Inside Relish: a riveted iron girder mounted on a wall of weathered, peeling plaster, above a long teal banquette piled with orange, mustard and patterned cushions, wooden tables and chairs, and a tall doorway looking out onto a stone building on Commercial Street.

Photo: Lewis McCulloch via Google Maps

Café · Deli · Commercial Street

RelishLeith

Fine food and wine, good coffee, and a seat on the teal banquette under an iron girder bolted to old, bare plaster. Open seven days, a couple of minutes from the Shore.

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4.7★271 reviews7days a week3–4Commercial St

Written on the window

Breakfast. Lunch.
Coffee. Cakes.

Four words along the bottom of their window — about as clear a menu as a café can give. Plus a deli side: their Facebook page calls the place Relish fine food and wine.

Breakfast
8am

The door opens at eight on weekdays — early enough for a coffee and something to eat before work. What's on the plate changes, so ask at the counter.

Mon–Fri 8Sat 9Sun 10Close 4
A toasted panini cut in two, filled with pesto chicken, rocket and sun-dried tomatoes, with tortilla chips, on an olive-rimmed plate on a rustic wooden table. Photo: Kinga Lunch
Toasted

Panini with pesto chicken, rocket and sun-dried tomato, chips on the side.

Two lunches on wooden boards: a tomato soup swirled with green herb oil beside a toasted wrap, and a chunky vegetable soup beside a toasted ciabatta, with a wooden spoon marked 5. Photo: Iza Ledzka Lunch
Soup

With a toastie, on a board.

A flat white with rosetta latte art in a charcoal cup and saucer on a pale oak table, with a blue cup behind. Photo: Berglas71 Coffee
Relish Coffee

It's etched into the window glass. Big cups, a proper rosetta.

Cakes
On the counter

The fourth word on the window. What's out changes day to day — best seen in person.

The deli side
Fine food
& wine

Straight from the name on their Facebook page.

The banquette under the girder, and the tall doorway onto Commercial Street.
Riveted iron girder
Plaster, left as found
The cushions
Out to the street
The slate-grey shopfront: RELISH LEITH in shadowed white letters on the fascia, and Breakfast, Lunch, Coffee, Cakes and Relish Coffee along the bottom of the window, under a wrought-iron balcony.
Photos: Lewis McCulloch (inside) and Aditi chugh (the shopfront), via Google Maps.

The room

Old plaster, iron, orange cushions.

The walls have been left as found — patched, peeling, layered in old paint — with a riveted iron girder bolted across them like a piece of the docks brought indoors. Underneath, a long teal banquette heaped with orange and mustard cushions.

cushion cushion banquette girder plaster
Close-up of a bronze Robert Burns medallion, 1759 to 1796, set into a dark tabletop.
A Burns in the table Look down: there's a Robert Burns medallion set into one of the tabletops. Detail from Iza Ledzka's photo.

Word of mouth

4.7★

Averaged across 271 Google reviews, read on 14 September 2026. Themes paraphrased from reviews across Google, Tripadvisor and other listings — nobody is quoted.

A neighbourhood deli, by most accounts.

01

Friendly and quick

Staff come across as welcoming and on the ball, even when it's busy.

02

The coffee

Mentioned again and again as the reason to come back.

03

Bread, cakes, dogs

Good bread in the sandwiches, cakes worth staying for — and dogs are welcome.

Visit

Commercial Street, by the Shore.

At the Shore end of Commercial Street, a couple of minutes from the Water of Leith. Look for the slate-grey front and the shadowed letters.

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