This small and simple one-room pub has one of the largest and most interesting ranges of single malt Scotch, not just in the city but in Scotland. The Port...

Roomy and comfortable, with a pub-grub menu and music on some evenings, the Canons' Gait offers a modern take on what a Royal Mile bar should be. Despite...

The City Café was one of the first modern café-bars on the scene in the 1980s; these days, it feels as much a part of Edinburgh as the castle. The ground...

The formula at this perennial Old Town favourite has a simplicity bordering on genius. Create a basic Italian menu (antipasti, risotto, panini, pasta) and...

The sister venue to Negociants, Medina is a late-opening and often lively basement with a North African theme. Although it's a kind of club-bar crossover,...

Hidden down a close just a few yards from the main tourist street, this is one of the Old Town's better-kept secrets. The other-worldly atmosphere is...

Negociants feels as if it's been here forever. The fixtures and fittings are French-ish, but the band posters - it's a students' favourite - are more...

Fall through the doors of this tiny, two-floor pub and you're virtually guaranteed to be regaled with a flurry of fiddles, squeezeboxes and guitars. There...

Like the Royal Oak, this is a folkies' hangout: there's an open session every night from around 9pm. Also like the Royal Oak, there are no frills, but if...

Edinburgh's primary live music pub, Whistlebinkies takes in rock and pop acts along with singer-songwriters, troubadours and indie kids. On Fridays and...