Tried and Tested
In no particular order (and with no time stamps as I mostly had no concept of time all weekend), here’s some of the best food, drink and dancing we experienced last weekend in Edinburgh!
Boozy Cow – amazing burgers, weird deep fried pickles and insane halloumi fries.
Barburrito – Mexican fast food. Nothing to rave about BUT the chips with chorizo and cheese sauce were delicious.
Pleasance Courtyard – tasty haggis hotdogs and an incredible melt in your mouth toasty, with beef, mustard and all of the cheese on sourdough. For all the cheese lovers out there, it’d be e-dam shame to give it a miss, gouda had another one.
NOTE – bar one, (no pun intended) all of the bouncers in Edinburgh were such legends! Why can’t they all be like that😭!
Auld Reekie Tiki – the best huggy bouncer, late night dancing and an enormous wooden crocodile.
Bar Barbados – free entry, rum cocktails, great music and dancing until 3am.
The Jazz Club – relaxed jazz vibes and cheap drinks – win win.
Sneaky Petes – small and sweaty but awesome trap music, red stripe and open til 5am – amazing.
We popped in and out of bars on Niddry Street (basically spent the whole time there) including; the Globe Bar (where Jack Barry played), Whistle Binkies, The Hive and a pop up outside spot called Sips in the City.
There’s so much going on everywhere, especially in the big pop up locations like Underbelly Bristo Square and the Assembly – perfect for outdoor drinking!
See below for some additional places, from a list Angie got off a local – handy huh?
Outside festival bars:
⁃ Spiegal tent
⁃ Pleasance
Cocktail bars:
⁃ Bramble
⁃ Tonic
⁃ 99 Hanover street
⁃ Hoot the redeemer
⁃ Panda and sons
⁃ Black dehlia
⁃ Printing press
⁃ The last word
⁃ Lioness of leith
Music/entertainment bars:
⁃ 99 Hanover street
⁃ Voodoo rooms
Dirty burgers:
⁃ Boozy cow
⁃ Feed (organic meat)
⁃ Lioness of Leith
Pizza:
⁃ Civerinos Slice
Coffee:
⁃ Artisan roast broughton street
⁃ Wellington coffee
Hotel bars:
⁃ Printing Press
⁃ Principal Hotel
⁃ The Edinburgh Grand
Late night party bars:
⁃ Nightcap
⁃ Cabaret Voltaire
⁃ Sneaky Pete’s
⁃ Fingers
Wine bars:
⁃ Bon vivant
Cheese and wine places:
⁃ Pickles
⁃ Smith and Gertrude
Thai:
⁃ Ting Thai caravan
Mexican:
⁃ El Cartel
Indian:
⁃ Lancers
Tapas:
⁃ 83 Hanover street
Brunch
⁃ Papii
⁃ Lioness of leith
⁃ Down the hatch (bit further out but proper comfort food)
Steak:
⁃ Hawksmoor
⁃ Kyloe
Hope you find this handy! Where would you recommend in Edinburgh?
