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Charlie Ellis
Journalist — Edinburgh specialty coffee, reported as a sector rather than a shop at a time: openings, closures, lease economics, roasting, and how the city's cafe geography tracks where people actually live and work.
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Charlie Ellis writes bylined, dated features for The Edinburgh Reporter and reports from inside the rooms, with named interviews. His January 2026 Fortitude piece is the only source anywhere that carries that operator's decade in one place: the February 2020 Stockbridge opening in a former bike shop, the Modbar under-counter machine, the deliberate decision to drop savoury food, the York Place and Newington closures with Matt Carroll's own reasoning, and the succession of the Newington unit to a former staff member. He also names the neighbouring operators (Lannan, Little Fitzroy, Artisan Roast, Cairngorm, Castello) accurately enough to be usable as city-scene context.
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