Broughton street
Bliss
Funky little shop with a lovely range of cards and gifts.
Crombies
Award-winning family-run butchers shop, now in it's 3rd generation. Great quality local meat, best known for their amazing range of sausages.
Villeneuve Wines
An excellent range of wines in stock at this branch of a small local chain. The knowledgable staff are always happy to help out with any advice you need. Good range of quality bottled beers too, and this is also a great place to buy Malt Whiskies with over 150 usually in stock.
Joey D
Edinburgh fashion designer creating unique items from vintage fabrics. Mens and womens ranges.
Concrete Wardrobe
An independent shop set up by two Scottish textile designers to showcase artisan products from Scotland. Home furnishings, clothes, jewellery and gifts. A lovely place to browse.
Threadbare
Like a dressing up box you can walk into, this amazing little basement shop is crammed to the gunwales with vintage clothing.
Boho area at the north east of the New Town, with a great variety of shops, delis, bars and restaurants. Locals know all about it, visitors often miss it.
Seesaw Toys
Family run shops there's another branch at 181 Brunstsfield Place stocking a well-selected range of traditional wooden toys, from simple rattles for babies, to musical instruments, and larger items such as ride-on toys and giant castles. Also stock a range of organic baby clothes, washable nappies, and lotions and potions for mothers and babies.
George street
Grays of Edinburgh
Hardware and household goods supplier to all the finest Edinburgh households, including the Royal one.
Brooks Brothers
The only UK shop outside London of this upmarket American clothes retailer.
George Street (http://www.edinburghgeorg...) houses generally more upmarket shops and boutiques, as well as a number of bars and restaurants. It runs parallel to Princes Street, about 200m to the north.
Slater Menswear
Eastern outpost of the famous Glasgow institution. Broad range at keen prices - attentive service.
Leith walk
Valvona & Crolla
Its grey frontage looks unassuming, but step through the door into a wonderland of food, much of it sourced direct from Italy by the family that have owned and run this business since 1934. Appears in the Sunday papers more often than Sudoku. If you like the look and smell! of all the goodies but wouldn't know what to do with any of it, just continue to the back of the shop and hope to get a seat in the bright cafe
Vinyl Villains
Second-hand record shop of the type that used to be found in every town in the country. Vinyl Villains has survived due to maintaining high standards of service and always having plenty of interesting items in stock. Specialise in vinyl duh! but also CDs, T-shirts, posters, fanzines including some football titles
Leith Walk joins Edinburgh to Leith, so the top half is in the New Town, and the bottom half is in Leith. Despite having been invaded by an array of Polish Grocers Polski Sklep of late, and the reduction in trade caused by works on the tram project, Leith Walk still has an amazing variety of independent shops. Locals claim there is nothing you can't buy somewhere on Leith Walk even if it's illegal!. Have fun trying to prove this wrong!
Harburn Hobbies
Family run business established in the 1930s. Specialises in model railways, including some items exclusive to this shop. Also die-cast model vehicles, Scalextric slot car racing systems and plastic and wooden model construction kits.
Princes street
Jenners
Until recently it was the world's oldest independent department store, now sadly part of the House of Fraser chain there's another at the very west end of Princes Street, number 145, and has lost some of its character. Still an endearingly warren-like building, with the Great Hall at its heart an impressive sight, especially at Christmas-time. Has a franchise of London's famous Hamleys toyshop in the basement.
Princes Street marks the southern edge of the New Town, and is the main shopping street in Edinburgh. It runs through the middle of the city from Waverley train station to Lothian Road. It contains large chain stores such as HMV for music, Topshop and H&M for clothes, tourist oriented shops, and department stores.
St James Centre and Princes Mall
Undercover shopping centres just off the east end of princes street. more mainstream chain shops plus the st james has the john lewis (http://www.johnlewis.com/) department store.
West end village
Vanilla Bloom
Designer maternity wear and baby acessories, also has a spa/therapy room.
The West End Village (http://www.westendvillage.org/) is centred around William Street and Stafford Street, at the west end of the New Town and only a couple of minute's walk from Princes Street. The area is home to a mix of smaller shops, good for unusual designer womens clothes and accessories, and interior design. There's some nice places to eat as well.
The New Town is home to most of the shopping in Edinburgh, split across a number of distinct areas:
multrees walk
At the north-east corner of St Andrews Square, at the east end of George Street. Home to the Harvey Nichols (http://www.harveynichols.com/) department store and a number of international clothing brands including Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, Daks, Kurt Geiger, and modern silver jewellers Azendi (http://www.azendi.com) and Links of London. Melt your credit card here. (http://www.the-walk.co.uk/)