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Location: 8 Leven St, Edinburgh EH3 9LG

Year of Inscription: 2024

Venue Type: Historic Tavern / Whisky Specialists / Neighbourhood Pub

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EBG Rating:	8.3/10
Choice/ Quality of Drinks	❤️❤️❤️❤️ Whisky specialists with over 100 to choose from, but a good range of cask ales compliments that, with the typically mediocre keg options virtually every Edinburgh pub seems stuck with.
Style/Décor	❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Historic pub with fittings dating from 1906. CAMRA’s heritage listing describes the fittings as follows: ” It is the last pub in the city with an original gantry featuring four spirit casks, and has an extraordinary tiled and mirrored interior, as well as a rare jug bar. The ornate gantry has niches, pilasters and scallop shell pediments. The original bar counter retains a former spittoon trough made of marble, which runs all along the front, and the bar top has two working brass water taps. Designed in 1891 by George Lyle, it has a fine ceiling with very decorative cornices and it was refitted in 1906. The magnificent interior features a tiled and extraordinary four-bay mirrored arcading all the way down the right-hand side with hand-painted pictorial tiles with allegorical figures by William B. Simpson & Sons of London. Below the arcading are red leather seating areas and tables inlaid with maps”
Atmosphere/ Character	❤️❤️❤️❤️ Good character stemming from the fittings and environment, but the atmosphere is notable for its slightly more neighbourly feel, our on the edge of Morningside by the meadows, just far enough from the tourist crowds to remain local.
Amenities/ Events	❤️❤️❤️❤️ Food, snacks, books, TV
Value For Money	❤️❤️❤️ Not unusual pricing overall, more expensive for drinks but some okay food deals.
Description	Located far enough outside Edinburgh old town to retain a neighbourly feel, this heritage pub features fittings that are unique to the city and worth the short journey out to alone, but it’s no museum with a good spread of products covering beers and whiskies and TV pulling in rugby fans, all keeping a sense of relevance. As you’re seated you can’t help but admire the huge mirrors and tilework, while the sensation of it being local rather than tourist property is notable versus many others you’ll visit in and around the centre.