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’Spoons is on a roll. Fresh from a year of dozens of new openings in 2025 and receiving planning permission for a significant new outpost in central London, the affordable pub chain has been granted a licence for a new boozer in Edinburgh city centre.
The venue is set to open on Chambers Street, near the National Museum of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh’s Old College. The pub, which has had its licence approved but not yet been officially confirmed by ’Spoons, is expected to take the place of a Revolution bar that closed in 2024. JD Wetherspoon apparently bought the site last year.
According to Edinburgh Live, licensing board papers said that Wetherspoon applied for permission to sell alcohol 9am-1am Monday to Saturday, and 11am-1am on Sundays. The licence was approved on Monday (January 19).
’Spoons branding will be added to the building, as well as new steps and a lift at the entrance. The 485-capacity pub will occupy the ground and basement floors. Neither its name nor opening date has yet been confirmed.
But a new Chambers Street pub isn’t all that JD Wetherspoon has planned for Auld Reekie. The company is awaiting a licensing decision on another potential new Fountain Park boozer, which would be in place of the popular Green King pub McCowans Brewhouse which closed last summer.
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