EDINBURGH
Welcome to Pub Trails - EDINBURGH
One of the places visited that was so large and interesting that nine trails were created for you to duplicate.
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and lies on the East coast on the Firth of Forth. The second highest population in Scotland it is the largest city by area. The city is famous for its architecture and design, both the old town and the new town are World Heritage sites. It has a world famous Castle and hosts the Edinburgh Festival (and Fringe) every year.
The easiest way to get to Edinburgh is by train to Waverley station. There is also the second last station which is Haymarket. These stations are at either end of Princes Street and Haymarket is the stop for Edinburgh's West End.
Visit Edinburgh
Edinburgh Castle Festival National Portrait Gallery National Gallery Modern Art
Edinburgh is a large city with many pubs spread over different areas of the town. Rose Street is a very popular drinking trail so I have ignored it and have introduced nine other pub trails based in Edinburgh. There is a short one viewing pubs at the Grassmarket (red icons) and two slightly longer (or one very long) starting at Haymarket station towards Lothian Rd (green icons) or Princes Street to Haymarket (yellow icons) taking in pubs in the West End and Lothian Road triangle.
All of the pubs are highlighted on the map below.
Now added is a trail, Around Bread St (blue icons) linking West End trails to The Grassmarket Trail and a trail going Beyond The Grassmarket (purple icons) and finally The Royal Mile (brown icons).
There are also trails in The Cowgate (dark blue icons), heading to The Southside (orange icons) and Around Waverley Station (light Blue Icons)
Pub Facts
A place this size is bound to have its own guides to illustrate the vast quantity, quality and styles of pubs.
Many of the pubs do serve real ale and while a lot of pubs offer a choice of real ale some only offer one which is inevitably Deuchers. Quite often these pubs are only playing at selling real ale and the Deuchers is not as tasty as it can be.
Practically every pub offers food at lunch or all day
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Who owns your pubs?
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Interesting articles to read
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Who owns your beer?
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Comparing pubs in Scotland with England
Pub Jukebox:
Alcohol themed music to listen to while you browse.
John Barlycorn must die - Steve Winwood
Links for EDINBURGH city centre Pubtrails
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Trail 1 - Princes St to Haymarket
(yellow icons)
The Huxley (formerly Rutland Bar)
Ghillie Dhu
The Angel's Share (formerly Hudsons)
Ryan's Bar
HP Mather.
The Grosvenor
Au Bar
Teuchters
The Voyage of Buck (was Bert's Bar)
Mercat Bar
The Haymarket
Ryries.
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Trail 2 Haymarket to Lothian Rd
(green icons)
This tour of the pubs starts from Haymarket station.
Ryries
The Haymarket.
The Jolly Botanist (formerly The Spider's Web)
Diane's Pool Hall.
Monty’s (was Carters Bar)
Thompsons Bar
Lebinskis (Closed)
Innes & Gunn Tap (was The Beer Kitchen)
All Bar One
Shakespeares
Red Squirrel
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Trail 3 - Grassmarket
(red icons)
The Grassmarket contains seven pubs and there is an eighth called the Grassmarket just around the corner.
Biddy Mulligans
Maggie Dickson's Bar
The Last Drop
The White Hart
The Beehive
The Black Bull
Fiddlers Arms
JC Christie & Sons (formerly The Grassmarket)
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Trail 4 - Around Bread St
Walk up the left hand side of Lothian Rd from Princess St and after crossing to small streets start at
The Red Squirrel
Shakespeare.
Innes & Gun Tap (was The Beer Kitchen)
All Bar One.
The Hanging Bat.
The Chanter
Monboddo.
The Footlights
The Blue Blazer
The Dragonfly Cocktail Bar
W.J Christie and Son (called The Grassmarket in trail 3).
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Trail 5 - Beyond Grassmarket
(purple icons)
The Castle Arms
The Bow Bar
Bar Salsa
Oz Bar
Greyfriars Bobby bar
Sandy Bell's
Malone's
The Doctors.
Boteco Do Brazil
Paradise Palms
Frankenstein's
George IV Bar
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Trail 6 - Royal Mile
(Brown icons)
The Ensign Ewart
The Jolly Judge
Deacon Brodies
The Albanach
The Mitre
The Royal Mile Tavern
The Whiski Bar
Number 1 High St
The Tolbooth Tavern
The Kilderkiln.
The return journey is
Cannon's Gait
The White Horse
The Worlds End
Inn on The Mile
The Royal McGregor
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Trail 7 - Cowgate
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The Inn on The Mile
The Tron
The Advocate
The City Cafe
OX184
Brewdog
The Three Sisters
Bannerman's
Bar 50
Holyrood 9A
The Globe
Whistlebinkies
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Trail 8 - Southside
(orange icons)
Inn on the Mile
Biblos
The Royal Oak
The Whistle Stop
Brass Monkey
The Captain's Bar
The Southsider
Greenmantle
McSorley's
The Dagba
Pear Tree House
The Blind Poet
Andrew Usher & Co
The Potting Shed
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Trail 9 - Around Waverley Station
Out one exit and around to another entrance.
(light blue icons)
Half Way House
Jinglin' Geardie's.
Scotsman' Lounge
The Malt Shovel
The Hebrides
Belushi's
The Doric
The Booking Office
Guildford Arms
Cafe Royal
PLACES TO VISIT WITH PUBTRAILS
The towns and villages highlighted on this web site have a wide variety of pubs and beers in them. All of the places are great to visit, whether for a day or longer, and most have tourist attractions for all of the family.
There is a large variety of pubs throughout the different towns shown below. Some you may wish never to visit again but even discovering these can be interesting. There are pubs that you would not take your wife into. While some you could not take your girlfriend into. A few you would not take either into. However, most of the pubs are very pleasant.
HOME MAP of places visited
Alnwick Ambleside Anstruther Bakewell Bamburgh Barnard Castle Bath Berwick upon Tweed Birnam & Dunkeld Bourton on the Water Bowness on Windermere Bridge of Allan Chester Chichester Dunblane Dunoon Edinburgh Ely Fort William Glasgow Gourock Greenock Helensburgh Inverness Kelso Keswick Knaresbourgh Largs Linlithgow Lyme Regis Melrose Montrose Newton Stewart North Berwick Norwich Oban Pebbles Penzance Portree Pitlochry Quorn Richmond Rothesay St Andrews Seahouses Seend Shrewsbury Skipton Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Stockton Heath Whitby Windemere Whitstable York
Edinburgh Pub Walks
By Bob Steel
Some Edinburgh and the Borders area Breweries
Born in the Borders (originally Scottish Borders Brewery)
Pub Quiz
Which town in North Yorkshire is famous for its annual bed race?
Answer at foot of the page
“Say anything you like about me, except that I drink water.”
— W C Fields
Other interesting pages
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Books on Beer
A variety of books that investigate styles of beers and brewing.
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Pubs visited by Stevenson & MacKay
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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Books on Pubs
A variety of books looking at the development of public houses.
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Map of CAMRA branches
Map of CAMRA branches and e-mail links
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Places visited by Pubtrails
Map of villages, towns and cities visited by pubtrails
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Who owns your pubs?
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Interesting articles to read
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Who owns your beer?
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Comparing pubs in Scotland with England
ANSWER: Knaresborough