Visiting The Pop-Up Hello Kitty Cafe In Primark Edinburgh

Good news for Hello Kitty fans! The pop-up Hello Kitty cafe in Primark is now open – and will stay open until June.

There are pop-up cafes in the Primark stores in Birmingham, Manchester, and Edinburgh, but this will be about the Edinburgh one as we visited when we were in the city for the Easter long weekend.

The cafe looks great! An explosion of all things red, pink, and kawaii. And i will also say that the quality of the food was much better than I expected: no one expects things to taste delicious when they’re eating in Primark. But I promise they did!

What Did You Eat?

Between the 4 of us, we ordered a little bit of everything. The bao buns were renamed bow buns (to honour Kitty’s famous accessories) and the milkshakes came in Kitty Pink (strawberry with a strawberry donut on top) or Kitty White (white chocolate with a simple white icing donut on top).

The milkshakes were £5.95 each, but given how thick they were and that they came with a donut too I thought that was a very reasonable price.

All of the waffles were priced at £6.50. We ordered the cinnamon ones with was a thick, fluffy waffle served with vanilla icecream and then covered in cinnamon, maple syrup, and raisins. It tasted like bread and butter pudding, but better!

Was It Busy?

You can’t make bookings for the Hello Kitty cafe (because, you know, it’s in Primark) and I had read online that it can get busy. But we arrived at 11.20am on Easter Saturday and there were only 2 other occupied tables.

So my advice would be to arrive early if you really want to visit, and to avoid disappointment. Of course there is also tonnes of Hello Kitty merchandise in the store too.

For Hello Kitty fans (or more realistically, if you want a fun treat for a little girl) this is definitely worth checking out.

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