KVASA Bakery, Shop & Fermentation Lab
The Skinny reckons this is the only place in Edinburgh running a dedicated cinnamon bun loyalty card.1
Why go
Peter Simpson's entry in The Skinny's Edinburgh food guide puts the whole case on one item: They don't come much bigger or better than at Kvasa on Leith Walk, the only place we can think of with a dedicated cinnamon bun loyalty card.
1 That same sentence ran unchanged in the guide's 2025 edition, so read it as one judgment carried forward. Nothing in the store describes the fermentation lab the name advertises, and this entry does not guess at it.
Order this / avoid
- Order: a cinnamon bun. It is the only item anyone has named in print, and the shop runs a loyalty card for it.1
What locals & experts say
- Peter Simpson, The Skinny (2026 guide):
We like big buns, and we cannot lie. They don't come much bigger or better than at Kvasa on Leith Walk, the only place we can think of with a dedicated cinnamon bun loyalty card.
1 - Nobody else has written about it. No review, no award and no chef pick names this bakery anywhere.
Good to know
- Hygiene, and read this before you go: the Food Hygiene Information Scheme rating is Improvement Required, from an inspection on 10 October 2024, FHRSID 1434190, with no re-rating pending as of 7 August 2026. That is a live failing rating on the hygiene register and it is nearly two years old without being refreshed.2
- Registered as: Kvasa Bakery and Fermentation Lab in the hygiene register, and classed as a retailer rather than a cafe.2
- Price and hours: nobody publishes either.
- Getting there: 101 Leith Walk is on the Pilrig stretch, roughly halfway down the Walk.
Verdict
could-visit — Peter Simpson singles out the cinnamon buns in The Skinny's Edinburgh food guide and notes that this is the only place they can think of running a dedicated cinnamon bun loyalty card, which is a specific enough claim to act on. That is the whole critical record, and the same sentence ran unchanged in the 2025 and 2026 editions of the guide. Against that, the statutory register carries a live Improvement Required from an inspection on 10 October 2024, with no re-rating pending as of August 2026. A bun worth a detour and a hygiene rating worth knowing about is exactly a could-visit and not more.