Markets · Edinburgh
Saturday on Castle Terrace, Sunday in Stockbridge: Edinburgh’s markets by day
Edinburgh’s markets run on different days in different parts of town, and this guide gives each one’s hours and the stall or counter to head for first.
Arbroath smokies come to Castle Terrace on the first and third Saturday of the month, from Arbroath Fisheries, whose Cullen skink is £5.50 on its webshop. That is the pattern for the whole city: each market keeps its own day, and the good stalls don’t come every week. So this guide is laid out by day, with the hours and the counter to find first.
Saturday
Edinburgh Farmers’ Market
Every Saturday from 9am to 2pm, year round, the farmers’ market fills Castle Terrace under the castle rock, and Slow Food Scotland made it Market of the Year four years running, from 2018 to 2021. Arran Cheese Shop brings its hand-made cheddars every week; Carmichael Estate, which calls itself Scotland’s oldest family farm (from 1292), sells venison, beef and lamb on the first and third Saturdays. On the first Saturday of each month Slow Food Edinburgh runs a stall where a local chef cooks with what’s on sale, which makes that the Saturday to bring children.
Castle Terrace, West End · Arbroath Fisheries Cullen skink £5.50 · Saturdays 9am–2pm · walk-in
Grassmarket Market
A ten-minute walk downhill, the Grassmarket’s Saturday market runs from 10am to 5pm on the strip of paving down the middle of the square, so it carries on after Castle Terrace packs up. Most of its stalls sell crafts, but hot food comes from Mountain Momo, Noodle Eat and The Whole Hog, and Tipico Sicilian Nuts & Fruits had a stall on the 10 October list. Park at the NCP on Castle Terrace and the organisers’ app gets you a discount.
Grassmarket, Old Town · Saturdays 10am–5pm · walk-in
Leith Market
The same organisers run a third Saturday market on Dock Place, by the Water of Leith, from 10am to 4pm. It has more farm produce than the Grassmarket: Phantassie and Peelham organic farms both had stalls on 10 October, alongside West Coast Sea Products and Ma Robert’s Tanzanian Food for something hot. On the first Saturday of the month a Vegan Quarter joins the usual traders.
Dock Place, Leith · Saturdays 10am–4pm · walk-in
Sunday
Stockbridge Market
Stockbridge was the first of these markets, in 2011, and it runs every Sunday of the year from 10am to 4pm on Saunders Street, by the bridge over the Water of Leith. For lunch, the hot-food stalls on the 11 October list were Harajuku Japanese Street Food, Lovely Paella and Planet G. To take home, look for Skipness Smokehouse, Going Native Heritage Meats and the bread from Au Gourmand Boulangerie.
Saunders Street, Stockbridge · Sundays 10am–4pm · walk-in
Thursday to Sunday
Brown’s of Leith
This food hall opened last November in the old George Brown & Sons engineering works on The Shore, and it is where to take a group that can’t agree. Haze, from the family behind Timberyard, does coffee, pastries and wine-bar plates; Asu is the first Edinburgh kitchen from Glasgow’s Five March, run by chef David Cleary; Shrimpwreck has a shuck bar for Scottish oysters, the stall the Good Food Guide picks for lunch; and Civerinos makes thin, charred pizza in the Connecticut style. The List’s review in February put the average main at about £12.
The Shore, Leith · mains about £12 · Mon noon–10pm, Thu–Sun 9am–10pm · walk-in for under eight; dogs welcome
The Pitt
The street-food yard reopened on Granton’s waterfront in December 2024 and now trades Thursday to Sunday: from 3pm on Thursday and from noon at the weekend, until 9pm (8pm on Sunday). It hosted the Scottish Street Food Awards in 2025. Start at Longshot, the coffee counter that pours Williams & Johnson beans, then walk the yard. There is a mini-market on Saturdays and Sundays and live jazz on Sunday.
West Shore Road, Granton · street food Thu from 3pm, Fri–Sun from noon · walk-in
Shops worth the detour
The Big Cheese
Neil Cunningham opened this cheese shop on Broughton Street in August with more than 50 cheeses, about half of them sold nowhere else in Edinburgh. Head cheesemonger Mia Cowie stocked St Cera from Norfolk and a raw-milk Camembert de Normandie for the launch, next to Isle of Mull cheddar and Gubbeen. Ask what’s new; the shop also runs tastings.
Broughton Street, New Town · walk-in
Checked October 2026.
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