This long, thin venue has one of the best views of Edinburgh city centre. Musically, it caters for a hotch-potch of local-band triple-bills, rock nights and...
5-7 Waterloo Place
Around in the city since 2003, when it started life as Bootylushous, Booty grooves on with funk, disco, soul and R&B for an open-minded audience. Cheap...
GHQ, 4 Picardy Place
Open since the end of 2008, the Bowery has since become the unofficial home for the city's burgeoning anti-folk scene, while also staging a few experimental...
Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place
The Brass Rubbing Centre is housed in an atmospheric location: the apse that is the only surviving remnant of the Gothic Trinity College Church, founded in...
Trinity Apse
Its name nodding both to a Swiss nightclub favoured by the original Surrealists and to the hugely influential electronic act, Cabaret Voltaire helped...
36 Blair Street
Another venue with a name that gives the game away, the Caves is an irregular but top-quality venue for well-heeled student types who hire out the place for...
12 Niddry Street South
Ah, CC's, where great romances start and end, often in the same evening. There are nights when this full-time gay nightclub has more cheese than IJ Mellis,...
23-24 Greenside Place
Built in 1870, the headquarters of the city's library service today houses the Edinburgh Room, the Scottish Department, and reference, fiction and lending...
George IV Bridge
This former student union is a cheap and cheerful affair that mines a lager-spattered vein of indie and '80s retro for those who don't take things too...
40-42 Grindlay Street
Housed in an impressive 1831 building that was originally an orphanage, the Dean Gallery offers an impressive range of modern art. The permanent collection...
Belford Road
Opened in 1887, the Infirmary Street Baths were the product of Victorian public health improvements. The bathhouse gave people from the neighbourhood...
10 Infirmary Street
The ECA operates a year-round programme of exhibitions by artists from all over the world, but there are three key local events in amongst them: the May...
74 Lauriston Place
Occupying the building that held the old Castlehill reservoir, this establishment is like an extensive complex of concessions where you can do everything...
555 Castlehill
Now, this is a novelty. Formerly known as Massa, Buster's and a host of other names, the Electric Circus has been subject to an extensive refurbishment that...
36-39 Market Street
A hippy vibe pervades this collective-run venue in a former church, with bands playing either in the café-bar area or in the upstairs hall. For sensitive...
3 Bristo Place