Union of Genius

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Union of Genius

Union of Genius is a cafe dedicated to the beauty of soup. We have six different soups on each day, flavour-matched with locally-made artisan breads. All our soups and salads are hand-made each day using locally-supplied ingredients, and almost all contain no gluten ingredients. We have a huge repertoire of soups, from meat-based to vegan and we just like feeding people good food.

In addition, we run the UK's first recycling-based loyalty scheme - instead of rewarding you when you buy, we reward you when you return your used takeout packaging to us for composting. We supply cafes around Edinburgh with soups and salads, and deliver using cargo bikes to help minimise our footprint. We also supply soup to the City Care Van, which feeds Edinburgh's rough sleepers, and we run a suspended soup and coffee scheme where you can 'pay it forward' by buying soup or coffee for someone in need.

You'll find our cafe on Forrest Road, and we have a soup-selling Citroen H van (Dumbo), who trades in George Square on weekdays. You'll find he has vegan chilli and golden chilli on board, too. Enjoy!

Dumbo, our van, with the cargo bike

Dumbo, our van, with the cargo bike

Our Forrest Road cafe

Our Forrest Road cafe

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Contact

Union of Genius
8 Forrest Road
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 2QN
United Kingdom
+44 (0)131 226 4436
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