This old-style basement pub - all striking blacks and reds, focused on a central island bar - somehow manages to combine New Town money with Stockbridge bohemia. Food is...

You can trace the last ten years of Edinburgh's café-bar trends through this one venue alone. Baroque was a complete design riot when it first opened, but trimmed back the...

Bennet's is a marvel of Victorian design. A long wooden bar occupies one side of the room (with alcoves along the top of the gantry accommodating a huge selection of single...

Sandwiched between the lads-night-out chaos of Lothian Road and the lap-dancing bars at the top of the West Port, the Blue Blazer is no more or less than a cosy place to hide...

It's been around since 1871. It looks as if it was decorated by a mad maiden aunt from the Victorian era. It has a good wine list, an excellent bar menu (the open sandwiches...

The decor at Cloisters, housed in a former manse, is simple, but it's the rare cask ale that's the selling point. It puts on a good showing on the whisky front as well, with...

This address has hosted many a venue over the years, but perhaps plush cocktail bar Dragonfly will stick. Some might see hints of a Graham Norton stage set in the decor, but...

Formerly a pioneering designer restaurant, this establishment is now a less ostentatious style bar, good for cosy chats by candlelight or nestling by the fire. The menu...

Down an unlovely lane off Broughton Street, the Outhouse could easily be just another style bar. However, it works hard at attracting a lively clientele with regular DJs, and...

Literally over the road from Edinburgh University's George Square campus, the Pear Tree's cobbled beer garden has played host to generations of thirsty students in its time....

Legend has it that the Sheep Heid Inn got its name from the motif on a snuff box presented by King James VI before he legged it to London to become James I of Britain (yes, the...