Twelve Triangles (Brunswick Street)
Roberta Hall-McCarron of The Little Chartroom eats at this counter, and what she orders is the peanut butter croissant.1
Why go
Roberta Hall-McCarron of The Little Chartroom picked 90 Brunswick Street when easyJet Traveller asked where she eats in Edinburgh. Her reason was the sourdough and one pastry.1 Condé Nast Traveller named Twelve Triangles the best bakery in Edinburgh for bakes made with heritage grains in August 2024, which is a judgment on the business rather than on this address.2 A MICHELIN Guide editorial travel piece describes the operation as a mini-chain with sites across the city and suburbs and reaches for the chocolate hazelnut croissant.3 That is editorial coverage, and the bakery holds no MICHELIN standing of any kind.
Order this / avoid
- Order: the peanut butter croissant. Hall-McCarron's own words:
This is such a great bakery. They specialise in sourdough bread but it's hard to look past a peanut butter croissant at breakfast time.
1 - Order: the sourdough, which is what she names as the specialty.1
- Avoid: treating the branches as interchangeable. The MICHELIN piece counts sites across the city and suburbs, and the counters are not identical.3
Good to know
- Hours and price: nobody publishes either one, so check before you go.
- Booking: a bakery counter. Walk-in, and early.
- Getting there: 90 Brunswick Street, in Hillside, off the top of Leith Walk.
- Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 19 February 2025, FHRSID 769483, and it is the only food business registered at EH7 5HU. Eighteen months old.4
- Do not read across the branches. Three other Twelve Triangles premises hold Improvement Required ratings: 9 Comely Bank Road, the Kitchen Table at 22-24 Easter Road, and the Jane Street site. Those are separate registrations and say nothing about this one.
Verdict
should-visit — Roberta Hall-McCarron runs The Little Chartroom and Eleanore in this city, and when a magazine asked her where she eats she named this branch by its street number and told them what to order. Her line is that the bakery specializes in sourdough and that the peanut butter croissant is hard to look past at breakfast. That is a working Edinburgh chef choosing a specific counter, which is worth more than a roundup place. Condé Nast Traveller separately named Twelve Triangles the best bakery in the city for bakes made with heritage grains in 2024, though that pick belongs to the business rather than to this address. The MICHELIN Guide's Fringe article reaches for the chocolate hazelnut croissant and describes the operation as a mini-chain with sites across the city, which is editorial coverage and not guide standing. Go early, go on foot, and take the croissant. It stops short of must-visit because no scored review exists, no hours or prices are published anywhere reachable, and several sibling branches carry hygiene ratings that a visitor could easily mistake for this one's.