Inside Kukina: amber filament lamps hanging over a glass counter of pastries, a navy-painted brick wall with a chalk drinks board and a shelf of teapots and jars, and the espresso machine behind.

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KukinaTurkish Bakery · 356 Leith Walk

Börek rolled into coils and fingers, simit, gözleme and Turkish coffee, under filament lamps and a navy brick wall. Open seven days from 8am.

See the counter Call 0131 629 4310

Photo: Jan Barker via Google Maps

On the counter

Rolled, filled, baked this morning.

Every tray has its own little chalk slate. These are the ones in Kukina's own photo of the counter. Every one carries a V: the whole row is vegetarian.

The glass counter: coiled and long börek on wooden boards, sesame simit, and trays of spinach and feta fingers, each with a handwritten chalk label.
Olive & feta börekV
Simit with cream cheeseV
Potato börekV
Potato & cheese börekV
Spinach & feta börekV
Spinach & feta finger börekV

What's baked changes day to day, so check the slates when you come in.Photo: Kukina Turkish Bakery

Sit in

Stay for a plate, and a pot of tea.

Plenty of people stay rather than take away. Here's what they've photographed at the tables.

A long twisted börek, two golden pastry rolls, a scoop of hummus and a tomato and lettuce salad on a speckled blue platter. Photo: Bhanuka Vidanapathirana
A börek platterWith hummus, pastry rolls and a fresh salad.
A round coiled börek on a grey plate with a dish of yoghurt, beside a speckled teapot, a cup and a cappuccino. Photo: Om Anas
A coil, and a potRound börek, yoghurt on the side, tea in a speckled pot.
A wedge of layered pastry with whipped cream and a dusting of cinnamon, beside a large cinnamon-topped cappuccino and an iced coffee. Photo: stormzor 01
Something sweetLayered pastry, cream and cinnamon, with a big cup.
also — BaklavaGözlemeLahmacunVegan börek & gözleme

The board

Turkish coffee, or a flat white.

The chalk board on the navy brick behind the counter lists everything from an espresso to a chai latte. The Turkish coffee is the one to try.

8amopen every day
7days a week
4.7★265 reviews
  • Americano
  • Espresso
  • Latte
  • Flat white
  • Cappuccino
  • Mocha
  • Turkish coffee
  • Breakfast tea
  • Hot chocolate
  • Herbal tea
  • Chai latte
  • Iced coffee

Alternative milk and syrups too, from the same board.

Looking along the counter to the big front window, with a tram passing on Leith Walk outside and filament lamps overhead. Trams pass the window
Photo: Geert G via Google Maps

Word of mouth

Small room, big welcome.

4.7from 265 Google reviews, read on 14 September 2026
01

Friendly. Reviewers come back again and again to how warm the staff are.

02

The real thing. The pastry gets called properly homemade and authentically Turkish.

03

Fair prices, vegan options. Good value, and plant-based börek and gözleme on offer.

Themes paraphrased from reviews on Google, HappyCow, Tripadvisor and other listings. Nobody is quoted.

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356 Leith Walk, the blue-grey front.

Kukina's pale blue-grey shopfront on Leith Walk, with a round KUKINA sign, a neon 'Gözleme' in the window and a potted bay tree by the open door. Photo: Pamela N
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