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By Appointment to
Her Majesty the Queen
Suppliers of Fine Cheese
Valvona & Crolla Ltd
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Established 1934
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Valvona & Crolla Events 2012
We have a fabulous calendar of events planned for spring and summer.
Click here for more details or download the events catalogue here.
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Spring Wine Tasting
Thursday 31st May
We will show 6 fabulous wines newly arrived at Valvona & Crolla, discovered by our wine buyer, Philip Contini
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VinCaffè Events 2012
VinCaffè have dinner & wine tasting events throughout spring & summer.
Click here for more details or download the events catalogue here.
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Our Fiasco di Chianti V&C has arrived
This 2010 is a stunning, freshly ripe, mature and concentrated Chianti. Flavours of plum jam and cedar - velvety smooth. And all that in the iconic straw, Chianti flask - the V&C trademark.
Retail price: £13.95.
"New Arrival Offer" price: £11.95*
If you buy at least 6 bottles we will pay the carriage charge.
*Offer ends last day of May.
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Corking time on the menu-
Edinburgh Evening News, April 2012 "Enjoying a Champagne picnic to get in the mood for the summer event were, from left, Capital cooking gurus Mary Contini of Vincaffe, Paul Whitecross of ..."
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Graduation 2012
Celebrate your special day with your loved ones in VinCaffè Ristorante.
Book lunch or dinner and receive a Celebratory glass of Prosecco for you and your guests, complimentary with your meal.
3 Courses & Glass of Prosecco only £27.50 per person.
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Gay Grossart
Exhibition
Showing until 25th May 2012
Valvona & Crolla
Caffè Bar
19 Elm Row
Edinburgh, EH7 4AA
For more details tel: 0131 556 6066
email: office@valvonacrolla.co.uk
www.gaygrossart.com Gallery
For more details please click here
Proceeds from the exhibition will go to the Leith School of Art Assisted Places Fund and Community Art Workshops.
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Gregg Wallace
"FAVOURITE FOOD SHOP... Valvona & Crolla, an Italian deli in Edinburgh. I remember the first time I went; I'd heard a lot about it, but I saw this tiny little shop front with black-out windows and thought, "Is this it?". But what they've done is buy up the building behind them so you just walk through this amazing cave of Italian produce. Whenever I go to Edinburgh for the rugby, I always try to stop by."
- Independent On Sunday Magazine, March 2012
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Italia 'n' Caledonia - Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
The Public Reviews Rating:   
Link to Review
Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh - Financial Times, Feb 2012
"Valvona & Crolla, the most famous Italian Delicatessen in Scotland....has a coffee house and restaurant at the back, as well as the most extraordinary collection of food stuffs."
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"The thing that makes Valvona & Crolla special is the knowledge that the food you buy is authentic and fresh"
- Olive Magazine August 2011
"Arguably the best Italian delicatessen north of the Alps."
- Wall Street Journal, September 2011
Read full article click here
"The big mamma of cafe delis"
- Gabby Souter, July 2011
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VALVONA & CROLLA warmly welcomes you to our web site and online shop. From market stall to dot com, we now serve the nation from our original premises in Edinburgh. We are Scotland's oldest Delicatessen and Italian Wine Merchant; one of Europe's original Specialist Food Shops, founded in 1934. From our humble beginnings, serving the fledgling immigrant Italian community in old Edinburgh, we now list food products and wines from around the world, and supply the entire UK with an efficient, speedy delivery system that boasts a next-day service to 90% of the population.
We are an independent family business - free to place before you new and exciting products together with our more traditional food and wine. Our roots are firmly planted in tradition - our growth is nourished by technology - our future lies in the pursuit of ever increasing quality, value and service in all that we do.
In the online shop you will find our own-baked bread, cakes and biscuits, and an extensive range of cheese, champagne, cookery books, coffee, tea, kitchenware, pasta, rice, salami, sausages, oil, vinegar, port, dessert wine, whisky and wine - lots of wine!
We hold tastings and cookery demonstrations in our Caffè Bar throughout the year. We also have an on-site gift room and book shop which is converted into a 70 seat theatre during August to become a venue in the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival.
Do not hesitate to email us from the contact page with any enquiry or problem.
Best wishes and thank you for your custom.

Cav. Philip Contini Chairman & Managing Director
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"Elm Row is home to an impressive deli in the heart of Leith Walk's strongly Italian area: Valvona & Crolla. "
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"The thing that makes Valvona & Crolla special is the knowledge that the food you buy is authentic and fresh" - Olive Magazine August 2011
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...and Valvona & Crolla is the best trattoria/cafe. - AA Gill, Sunday Times November 2010.
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"arguably the best Italian delicatessen north of the Alps. - Wall Street Journal, September 2011
Read full article click here
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