Pubs & bars
- King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
A legendary live music venue serving cosmopolitan pub food - The Cumberland Bar
Tucked away in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town this is one of the Capital’s most famous pubs - Whighams Wine Cellars
Whighams is one of Edinburgh's leading wine bars and restaurants - Filmhouse Café Bar
fresh affordable food - breakfast, lunch & dinner, cakes & snacks, vegetarian selection. Open 7 days 10am–late.
Barbazza
5-9 Young Street,
Inverness,
IV3 5BL
One of the most popular and stylish bars in the city, Barbazza offers generous portions of honest bar food during the day and an energetic scene after dark. With its sleek booth seating in conker-brown leather, central square bar in dark wood and…
Bramble
16a Queen Street,
Edinburgh,
EH2 1JE
Passers-by can be forgiven for not noticing Bramble – this place does everything short of donning a glasses-nose-moustache combo in its effort to remain disguised. Indeed, not content merely to be buried in a Queen Street basement, it doesn’t even boast…
Driftwood
2–4 St Georges Road,
Glasgow,
G3 6UJ
Driftwood has been a fixture of Charing Cross for a few years now, offering cheap and cheerful food to hungry students and weary shoppers. The dining area is decked out in the 'traditional' Mexican terracotta and yellow, though it's actually barely…
Fabric
2 Canmore Street,
Dunfermline,
Fife,
KY12 7NT
Head chef Ian McEwan counts Edinburgh’s Witchery and Balmoral Hotel among his former employers, and this fiercely contemporary corner bar and restaurant is certainly aiming for big city style. Bright and airy during the day and stylishly bustling at…
Hamiltons Bar and Kitchen
16–18 Hamilton Place,
Edinburgh,
EH3 5AU
This dusky Stockbridge stronghold never looks the most inviting, yet is always busy – packed with pram-pushing mothers during the hours of daylight, and stuffed with drink-quaffing suits of an evening. And, with separate menus on offer for breakfast…
Kay’s Bar
39 Jamaica Street,
Edinburgh,
EH3 6HF
This pocket-sized pub, squirreled away among the New Town’s cobbles, is the perfect place for whiling away an afternoon with the papers and a pint. Refreshingly unpretentious, it offers a window into the pre-wine-bar world, with a focus on real ales and…




