CJ's Cafe

All day breakfast · Hot & cold freshly made sandwiches & rolls

A family-run café on Dalry Road, a short walk from Haymarket. There's a full breakfast with black pudding and a tattie scone, rolls filled to order, burgers, and fish and chips. Tartan on the walls, Highland cows on the tablecloths.

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Sit-inTake-awayHot & cold drinks
CJ's Cafe on Dalry Road: a white fascia with CJ'S CAFE in red capitals and a navy stripe, 'All day breakfast', 'Hot & cold freshly made sandwiches & rolls' and 'Hot & cold drinks', over red-framed windows marked Sit-In and Take-Away, under a sandstone tenement.
Dalry RoadPhoto: Harris Benjamin

Hot filled rolls

Pick your fillings. Go double.

The fillings come straight from the menu on the counter. Take one, or make it a double or a triple.

Pick a fillingOne is a single, two a double, three a triple.

Off the plate

A proper fry-up.

A breakfast plate: two fried eggs, beans, bacon, black pudding, buttered toast and a soft roll. Photo: Lochlan Canavan
All-day breakfastEggs, beans, bacon, black pudding, toast and a roll.
A full breakfast with eggs, beans, black pudding and toast, and an orange juice, on a grey table in the tartan-walled café. Photo: Alex Skinner (cropped)
With a juiceAt a table under the tartan.
Breaded fish with chips, a side salad, tartare sauce and buttered bread. Photo: Birgit L
Fish & chipsWith salad, tartare and bread and butter.
Inside CJ's: tartan wallpaper and red walls hung with paintings of Highland cows and a thistle, tables covered in Highland-cow oilcloth, and the counter at the back.
Tartan walls
Highland cows & thistles
Cow oilcloth

Photo: Logan via Google Maps

Inside

Tartan, cows & a warm welcome.

You can't miss the Scottish theme: tartan wallpaper, red walls, Highland-cow paintings and oilcloth, and a painted thistle on the wall. A proper local café, family-run.

4.7★ on Google
246reviews
6days a week

Word of mouth

4.7★

From 246 Google reviews, read on 14 September 2026. Themes paraphrased from Google, Tripadvisor and Yelp. Nobody is quoted.

What the regulars say.

The Scottish breakfastPraised more than anything else on the menu.

Friendly serviceA warm, family welcome, and quick with it.

Good valueRolls, burgers and cooked plates at prices people call fair.

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Dalry Road, near Haymarket.

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