Venues
- The Tea Rooms at The Butterfly and the Pig
City centre gem serving Afternoon Tea, High Tea, cakes & delights - Stereo
A great vegan themed bar in a Mackintosh-designed building - The Canon's Gait
Impeccable gastro pub food, Royal Mile’s best real ale, with cellar bar available for hire - The Stand
The Stand has hearty food, well priced beer and eclectic comedy line-ups
The Hive
15–17 Niddry Street,
Edinburgh,
EH1 1LG
The Hive is a popular late night haunt known for its generous promotions and varied music policy. Any given night you can be treated to pop and chart, indie and electro, rock and metal or drum and bass - so check listings in advance. Holding up to 650…
Royal Highland Centre
Ingliston,
Edinburgh,
EH28 8NB
A popular large-scale events venue, the Royal Highland Centre boasts 200 events and over a million visitors annually. The main event is the Royal Highland Show at the end of June, offering
entertainment, children’s activities, shopping, fashion, food…
Summerhall
1 Summerhall,
Edinburgh,
EH9 1QH
Summerhall is Edinburgh’s most exciting new multi-arts festival venue. Formerly the Royal Dick Veterinary School, Summerhall will transform into a vibrant arts hub for the Edinburgh Festival.
Café Cossachok
Trongate 103, 10 King Street,
Glasgow,
G1 5QP
Everyone knows by now that there’s more to Russian cuisine than boiled cabbage but Café Cossachok still manages to surprise with the breadth of its post-Soviet-bloc flavours. From Georgian casserole of chicken, walnuts, saffron and coriander to the…
The Tearoom @ The Butterfly and the Pig
153 Bath Street,
Glasgow,
G2 4SQ
The unique interior of welcoming shabby chic makes this a pleasant gem of a place to catch your busy urban breath over a quick wholesome soup and sandwich lunch, or a leisurely afternoon tea. The food is excellent. Here they do justice to the classic…
The Clutha Vaults
167-169 Stockwell Street,
Glasgow,
G1 4SP
Scotland
Hosting live music five nights a week, predominantly acoustic and folky, but with a smattering of rock'n'roll, the Clutha Vaults is a dark, low-ceilinged, traditional Clydeside boozer that's relaxing of an afternoon but gets densely packed on weekend…
The Queen's Hall
87–89 Clerk Street,
Edinburgh,
EH8 9JG
A former chapel dating from 1823, the Queen’s Hall is a mid-scale venue that adapts well to a range of musical styles, including rock, pop, classical, jazz, blues, world and folk, as well as the occasional comedy gig. Home to the Scottish Chamber…
SECC
Finnieston Quay,
Glasgow,
G3 8YW
The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre is Glasgow's largest venue for concerts and conferences.
La Bodega Tapas Bar
Dance with Attitude Studios, 1120 South Street,
Glasgow,
G14 0AP
La Bodega has to be one of the most surprising restaurants in Glasgow. That it exists at all is the inital shock, nestled as it is among the industrial landscape of warehouses, cranes and showrooms next to the Clyde, way out west past Whiteinch. With…
