Quality
Hand-selected Scottish meat, cut and made fresh in the shop. Nothing leaves the counter we wouldn't serve at home.
Broughton Street · Edinburgh · Since 1955
Sausages of Distinction.
An award-winning Edinburgh butcher, making over one hundred handcrafted gourmet sausages by the same four principles a family set down in 1956 — quality, value, cleanliness and service.
- Award-winning butcher
- 100+ handcrafted varieties
- Family-run since 1955
QualityValueCleanlinessServiceSausages of DistinctionAward-Winning ButcherFresh Meat Suppliersince 1955
1955Family-founded
100+Handcrafted sausages
70Years on Broughton St
1985Best Beef Sausage, Scotland
The 1956 creed
Four words the family never changed.
Alex Crombie set down four principles for the shop in 1956. Three generations on, they still decide everything that crosses the counter.
Value
Proper butchery, honestly priced. Advice on the cut, the cooking and the quantity comes free with every order.
Cleanliness
A spotless counter and cold room, kept to a standard a meat inspector would recognise — because the founder was one.
Service
You're served by a butcher who knows your name and your Sunday roast. Seventy years of that is why people still queue.
Set down by Alex Crombie, founder — 1956.
Since 1955
One family.
One street. Seventy years.
From a meat inspector's shop to the name Edinburgh reaches for when it wants a proper sausage — the whole story happens on Broughton Street.
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1955
Alex Crombie opens the shop
A former bacon curer and meat inspector for the City of Edinburgh opens his butcher's on Broughton Street — and, a year later, writes down his four principles.
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1961
Sandy takes the counter
Alex's son Sandy takes over and expands through the neighbouring units over the following decade — more counter, more range, same standards.
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1985
Scotland's best beef sausage
The gourmet-sausage era arrives. Crombies wins Scotland's Best Butcher's Beef Sausage and builds a specialist reputation that still stands.
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Today
The third generation, at The Broughton Market
Sandy's son and daughter-in-law run the counter inside The Broughton Market food store — over 100 sausages, and the same name over the door.
Sausages of Distinction
Over one hundred, made by hand.
Best sellers, speciality, traditional and gluten-free — linked fresh in the shop from Scottish meat. Here are a few of the favourites.
“The name Edinburgh has reached for a proper sausage since 1955.” Sausages of Distinction · Broughton Street
The counter
A full butcher's counter — not just sausages.
Sausages made our name, but the counter is a proper one: hand-selected Scottish beef, lamb, pork and poultry; dry-aged steaks; bacon and ham; haggis, black pudding and the Scottish pack; pies, and everything for the roast.
- Dry-aged Scottish beefAged in-house
- Lamb, pork & poultryScottish farms
- Bacon & hamCured & smoked
- Haggis & black puddingThe Scottish pack
- Meat boxes & the roastMade to order
Find us
The Broughton Market,
97–101 Broughton Street.
Edinburgh EH1 3RZ — in the heart of the New Town, a few minutes from Picardy Place. The butcher counter is staffed Monday to Saturday; the store is open seven days.
Call the shop 0131 557 0111
Email orders@sausages.co.uk
Delivery across Edinburgh (EH1–EH17, excl. Balerno) and shop collection. [Nationwide postal delivery is currently paused — confirm current status with the shop.]
Butcher counter
Staffed service
- Monday8am – 5pm
- Tue – Thursday8am – 6pm
- Friday8am – 6pm
- Saturday8am – 4pm
- SundaySelf-service only
The Broughton Market store
Grocery & deli
- Monday – Saturday7am – 7pm
- Sunday9am – 6pm