John Bain & Son are one of Edinburgh's premier family butcher's offering a wide selection of fresh meat, poultry and cooked meat products from our premises at Stenhouse Cross. We hope you find this site useful and informative, but if you get the chance, then why not drop into our shop and see for yourself the fantastic selection of quality produce on offer.

As a family business, we've been offering quality fare to Edinburgh customers since 1929. Now in our third generation, we are run by John Bain and manager John Greig, top-class butchers with almost 50 years experience between them. At John Bain & Son, we pride ourselves as much on the friendliness of our staff as the quality of our product.

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B. F.

Dec 31, 2021

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Best mince pie you can buy. Often busy at lunchtime but there's a constant supply of fresh pies and staff work quickly to keep any queue moving.

M. D.

Oct 19, 2021

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So strange. Went in on a Saturday morning to get some boneless pork shoulder. Young woman behind the counter didn't know what it is.
After she asked someone else I was told they didn't have any.
Never mind, I said, I'll take some pork belly instead. "We don't have that, sorry, needs to be ordered in specially".
What butcher (apart from a kosher or halal one, which this is not) doesn't have a constant supply of pork belly? None that I've been to before.
Maybe that's what makes this place so special?
They did seem to have some meat in the shop, so it might actually be a butchers, but I went

Gordon Reekie

Aug 22, 2021

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If anyone has told you that theyve had a better pie in edinburgh, they're lying to you.

Lucy Smith

Jul 10, 2021

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Absolutely adore Bain's - best mince pies in Edinburgh 😁 Worth the trip every time, and never let you down.

Keith Gilmour

Jun 11, 2021

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One of the best I found love there steak pies bridies sausage rolls and any other pies or stuff they do highly recommend

David Gillespie

Apr 25, 2021

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The best pie's 👌I've ever tasted im an ex Baker and love pie's so when I say their delicious I mean it, I travelled an hour to get to the shop and always worth it 👌😋👍👍👍

Hugh McMahon

Mar 26, 2021

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Brilliant butchers. Worth travelling to. And if you do nothing else,swap your regular Scotch Pie for a Bains mince pie. Looks the same but it's beef not mutton and it's in a different league.

Davy Macleod

Mar 17, 2021

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I've only tasted the pies and ate a sausage roll, a while back. Excellent products.
Don't know if they sell butcher packs, but if they did, I would buy one.