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Taverns of the Old Town.

Some of Edinburgh's pubs are as old as its streets. There's an inn in Duddingston village that claims a history back to 1360, a tavern in the old Canongate Tolbooth, and a Royal Mile pub named after a famous double-living councillor. Further out, you'll find a family-run inn near Rosslyn Chapel and harbourside pubs on the coast. Most serve food and real ale. Expect them to be busy in summer.

The Ship Inn→
Sheep Heid Inn→
Original Rosslyn Inn→
The Tolbooth Tavern→
Deacon Brodie's Tavern→
Corbie Inn→
Pub of the day17 hours ago

The Tolbooth Tavern.

A tavern in part of the Canongate Tolbooth of 1591, where tolls were once collected, now serving Scottish food and whisky on the Royal Mile.

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Weather for it15 hours agoEdinburghThe Tolbooth TavernRestaurantEdinburghSheep Heid InnRestaurantEdinburghCorbie InnRestaurantEdinburghOriginal Rosslyn InnRestaurantEdinburghThe Ship InnRestaurantEdinburghDeacon Brodie's TavernRestaurant

A pint by the fire.

Cold and wet enough out there. The pubs with a fire lit and good food.

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From our Edinburgh guide13 hours ago

The Canny Man's, a pub in Morningside in Edinburgh, was once famous for a landlord who would not serve anyone whose look he didn't like.

The pub has been an Edinburgh institution since 1871, and it is still family-run and independent, a proper old-fashioned bar. In the days of that curmudgeonly landlord, you had to pass his eye before you got a drink. The welcome is far warmer now, and the Canny Man's is open to all. It is best known for its Bloody Marys, and the chef Rick Stein went as far as to call it 'the best pub in the world'. So a bar that once turned people away at a glance has won about the highest praise a pub can get.

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From our guide11 hours ago

Sheep Heid Inn.

There’s said to have been a pub on this site since 1360 – the present-day incarnation has a jumble of vintage décor, an extensive selection of gins, beers and whiskies, and good-quality menus.

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Stay9 hours agoEdinburghOld Town Chambers100 yardsEdinburghMoment George IV Bridge200 yardsEdinburghWest End Muse0.7 miles

Stay near Deacon Brodie's Tavern.

The three good places closest to it: Old Town Chambers, Moment George IV Bridge and West End Muse.

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From our guide6 hours ago

The Jolly Judge.

Beamed ceilings, a log fire, real ales and an Old Town location set the tone nicely for this cosy historic pub.

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Pubs4 hours ago

The Ship Inn.

A pub and restaurant on Quality Street in North Berwick, a few steps from the harbour, serving seafood and home cooking every day.

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From our Edinburgh guide2 hours ago

The World's End, a pub on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh's Old Town, takes its name from the city wall it stood against, beyond which lay another world.

The name sounds gloomy, but it is no prediction of the apocalypse. It nods to the fortress mentality in Edinburgh after the Scots' defeat at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. The 16th-century pub nudged right up against the Flodden Wall, which once circled and protected the Old Town. Beside it, a plaque marks World's End Close, a tight passageway where travellers and residents once had to pay a toll to leave or enter the city. Locals who could not afford it were, in effect, kept in Edinburgh for life, which is how the close got its name too.

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Pubs18 minutes ago

Original Rosslyn Inn.

A family-run inn in Roslin since 1837, a three-minute walk from Rosslyn Chapel, where Burns, Wordsworth and Scott all stopped.

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Corbie Inn.

A white-harled pub and restaurant on Corbiehall in Bo'ness, on the John Muir Way, with home cooking and a stamp for walkers' passports.

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