Harp & Castle, Evening News top 10 pubs

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Jack

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If anyone still buys the EEN you could do worse than voting for the Harp & Castle in the best pub in Edinburgh competition.

Voting coupons are in tonight's edition.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-s-pub-of-the-year-2015-top-ten-revealed-1-3934967
 
Jack said:
If anyone still buys the EEN you could do worse than voting for the Harp & Castle in the best pub in Edinburgh competition.

Voting coupons are in tonight's edition.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-s-pub-of-the-year-2015-top-ten-revealed-1-3934967
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Great pub, with great food.
Was a brilliant atmosphere after the game on Sunday.
In before and after all games and always a good craic
 
How queer. I drank regularly in the Doocot in the 70's and 80's when on Friday, Saturday and Sunday ye couldnae move. The main bar, lounge and Birdscage night venue making it one of the busiest boozers in Scotland with the largest sale of ale anywhere in the land. Passed it two weeks ago on a Saturday night and there were 9 folk in it. Definitely a winner.

BIG G
 
Bowlers Rest is an interesting one. I lived very close for a couple of years but managed to never actually enter it. It just didn't feel particularly inviting although I regret it a bit now. Might pop in sometime just to satisfy my curiosity.
 
Bowlers Rest is definitely 'a local pub for local people' type place. Not many of the old-school Leith pubs left in the old port so worth a visit.

Took me until reading this list that Ensign Stewart from Irvine Welsh's Glue got his name from that pub. Strange boozer that, must have walked past it about 1,000 times and had a pint in every pub within a mile radius but never been in. To be be honest can't positively picture it, blends in to all the tartan tat shops in my mind.

One that always usually makes these lists but isn't here is The Sheeps Heid. Only in duddinston once in a blue moon but always meant to make a journey to visit it.
 
GORDONSMITH7 said:
How queer. I drank regularly in the Doocot in the 70's and 80's when on Friday, Saturday and Sunday ye couldnae move. The main bar, lounge and Birdscage night venue making it one of the busiest boozers in Scotland with the largest sale of ale anywhere in the land. Passed it two weeks ago on a Saturday night and there were 9 folk in it. Definitely a winner.

BIG G
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Sam Smith's the culprit. They might have refurbished it to the hilt but with no music, TV's and crappy beer and spirits it will never get back to even a smidgeon of the glory days of yore.

Along with the Doocot being the busiest in Scotland there was also the local legend that Drylaw Polis Station (just along the road from the Doocot) was the busiest station in the whole of Europe 70/80's.


Some of the pubs in this list make no sense. :sad
 
The__Proclaimer said:
Bowlers Rest is definitely 'a local pub for local people' type place. Not many of the old-school Leith pubs left in the old port so worth a visit.

Took me until reading this list that Ensign Stewart from Irvine Welsh's Glue got his name from that pub. Strange boozer that, must have walked past it about 1,000 times and had a pint in every pub within a mile radius but never been in. To be be honest can't positively picture it, blends in to all the tartan tat shops in my mind.

One that always usually makes these lists but isn't here is The Sheeps Heid. Only in duddinston once in a blue moon but always meant to make a journey to visit it.
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Not missing much with the Ensign IMHO. Neither good nor bad, just nondescript. Sheeps Heid is worth a visit - or was decades ago when I was last there!
 
egb_hibs said:
Not missing much with the Ensign IMHO. Neither good nor bad, just nondescript. Sheeps Heid is worth a visit - or was decades ago when I was last there!
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Innit, it's a mystifying inclusion.

I've been to the Sheep Heid relatively recently - I like to take Edinburgh visitors for a walk from Holyrood Palace, along past St Margaret's loch, then straight up the hill to Dunsapie loch and out along the Queen's Drive with the amazing view along to Samson's Ribs, then hairpin back at the roundabout by the Commie Pool and back along to Duddingston Loch for a pint or even lunch at the Sheep Heid (if we're flush - it's guid, but expensive).
 
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