Boda arrived in 2004 and is run by a Swedish couple with a friendly and laid-back style. It feels like a café-bar but operates like a pub, albeit one with cheese platters and...

On the coast stretching west of Leith, tucked away in a conservation village on the banks of the River Almond, this cosy, family-friendly venue is full of welcoming nooks and...

At this pub down at Portobello beach, about three miles east of Leith, you can get a decent pint of cask ale and sit in the front garden overlooking the sands, head for the...

Built on the site of a 15th-century building, the current King's Wark was part of an early 17th-century royal complex used by King James VI of Scotland (who became King James I...

The name is now well known thanks to a string of boutique hotels across the UK, but this was the very first of their number. The ground floor has a fine contemporary bar space,...

This old Victorian bar has gone through many changes in its long lifetime, the latest being a serious refurbishment in 2006 that brought an added sense of gravitas to the...

On the first floor of Ocean Terminal mall, the Ocean Bar has great views out over the Western Harbour (home of the Royal Yacht Britannia). Good for cocktails, it's best when...

On the first floor of Ocean Terminal mall, the Ocean Bar has great views out over the Western Harbour (home of the Royal Yacht Britannia). Good for cocktails, it's best when...

Refurbished after a fire in 2004, this bar sits on the coast between the small harbours at Newhaven and Granton. It was built on the site of (yes) an old chain pier,...

The encroachment of new apartment blocks has now put paid to the Pond's former reputation as 'the pub at the end of the universe', but it's still in a fairly unlovely street...

Both this pub and its proprietor, Mary Moriarty, are legends on the Edinburgh pub scene. It's a small and neatly kept pub, patronised by everyone from merchant mariners to...

The SMWS was set up in 1983 to buy individual casks of whisky from distilleries, bottle them and sell them to members. It remains largely unchanged: the atmosphere is still...

The Shore has a small, bustling bar and tables outside on the pavement - on finer days, you can even take your drink across the street to the quayside and sit watching the...

On the first floor of Ocean Terminal mall, the Sky Bar has great views out over the Western Harbour and the Royal Yacht Britannia. Good for cocktails, it's best when you can go...