Pubs in Edinburgh

[Lindsay]

Either the Guildford Arms or the Halfway House.

To get to the Guildford, go up the steps to Princes Street cross the road and turn right. when you pass burger king turn left and the pub is at the top of the wee side street. It's a spectacular pub and something of a Cathedral to good beer.

To get to the halfway house, go out the back entrance to the station and cross the road to the fleshmarket steps, halfway up them is the halfway house (duh!). It's a small pub but pleasant enough.

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[jennyo]

[s]randomname wrote on 19:20, 30th Mar 2005:
Can anyone recommend any nice pubs (as in no Wetherspoons etc!) near-ish to Waverley?

Thanks


Go up Cockburn Street (towards the Royal Mile) to the Malt Shovel or Mary King's, or go up the Royal Mile towards the Castle to Deacon Brodie's. They're all pretty popular traditional-ish places, and short stumble back to the station.

If you've got more time head down to the Cowgate/Grassmarket area, there are a bunch of trendy places down that way.

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[randomname]

Can anyone recommend any nice pubs (as in no Wetherspoons etc!) near-ish to Waverley?

Thanks

[MadDog20/20]

If you are a card-carrying Tartan Army follower then the Hebrides bar is your place (right beside the station).

If you like old mens bars then Jolly Judge or Halfway House are what you need.
Or Scotsman's lounge, at the top of Fleshmarket Close (the staircase from the station).

If you are a regular student then Finnegans Wake is what you need. It is not too far but maybe a bit far if you are just killing an hour waiting for trains.

On the north side of the station, Penny Black has 'character', and there are some yuppy bars around St Andrews Square (eg Tiles).

There is a bar in the station but it is shit.

[Eliot Wilson]

I'd second the suggestion of the Guildford Arms - a superb pub with a great range of beers. Equally, the Abbotsford, at the east end of Rose Street, is very nice too. If money is no object, I'd go to NB's in the Balmoral, or the excellent bar on the top floor of Harvey Nichols in St Andrew Square - they make excellent martinis.

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The Cafe Royal is also lovely, just round the corner from the Guildford i think.

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[Marco Biagi]

Sadly I've been converted to the old rockers' pub - the Auld Hoose - and its joyous Real Cider - Addlestones. Mmmm...

It's down by the Pleasance. Ish. I don't know well enough to give directions.

[Andrew Cusack]

[s]Eliot Wilson wrote on 21:05, 30th Mar 2005:
If money is no object, I'd go to NB's in the Balmoral, or the excellent bar on the top floor of Harvey Nichols in St Andrew Square - they make excellent martinis.

I found NB's fairly banal, but was placated because they have John Smith's on tap.

[Lindsay]

Leave Waverly by the back entrance, go up the fleshmarket steps onto Cockburn st. follow that up to the Royal mile, cross the road and turn left then right, past the Tron kirk. Follow this street for a few hundred yards, (past Chambers St, Blackwells books etc) until on your right you can see West register st. Here turn left and follow the road down to the Pleasance then turn right and the Auld hoose is about 100yds along that road.

I'm almost certain this isn't the most direct route but it's the one I know! Best of luck to anyone attempting it!

[s]Marco Biagi wrote on 18:12, 31st Mar 2005:
Sadly I've been converted to the old rockers' pub - the Auld Hoose - and its joyous Real Cider - Addlestones. Mmmm...

It's down by the Pleasance. Ish. I don't know well enough to give directions.




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