I am travelling up to Edinburgh this weekend?

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Lew

Try the Canny Mans in Morning Side Road, old traditional pub that serves food. Got plenty of character and cobwebs and no chrome. Plenty of Indian Chinese and Thai restaurants in close vicinity.

http://www.bestpubs.co.uk/layout0.asp?pub=105837

blueskyandsunshine

Go to Rose Street. It's full of old pubs, Or the Oxford bar. Have a nice time.
P.S. Rose St is behind Princes St.

jayemess

Go to Mathers in Queensferry Street - Chinese almost next door. Good drinks in Mathers good food in the Chinese.

tich302001

Yes try Rose Street is a great pedestrain street full of shops and restaraunts and pubs try the Abbottsford on Rose Street and The Rose Street Brewry which is a traditional pub, the Kenilworth on Rose Street. you have Jekyll & Hyde pub on Hanover street. The Auld Hundred the name comes from its address 100 Rose Street. Deacon Brodies on the High Street, The Jolly Judge, Ensign Ewart all on the Royal Mile (AKA the High Street.)
Maggie Dicksons Pub, The Last Drop, The White hart Inn, The Beehive Inn, The Black Bull all on the Grassmarket which is a very up and coming area wth historical buildings and pubs and new developments being built. Try this website Edinburgh pub guide. Also try the Hebrides on Market Street they have Gaelic music jam sessions. Cask ales, big range of whiskies in a small bar popular with locals and tourists. Waverly train station is just round the corner.
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/edinburgh/pubguide/auldhundred.html

jonal

Edinburgh is bouncing .Never stops.The White Oak is 'trad' and you'll find a gig in there sometimes,too. Rose Street,as the others said,has loads. I went to Ed 'gh to get a visa for India (there's an Indian High Commision Office there,not such long queues as in London) and booked a bed in a Backpacker for three nights. One day I actually used it ! In the daytime. Zonked out! There's all-night buses to get you back if you're flaking by 4am.Enjoy.

Jim

Here's how to kill two birds with one stone :-)

Go to Victoria Street and have a few drinks in the Bow Bar. It's a traditional pub with no music etc and the TV is only on for selected sports events. There is a range of eight cask ales and six keg beers including a couple of Czech lagers. If you're into malt whisky then you have a choice of over 160! The Bow has recently won prizes for it's beers and whiskies including Edinburgh Pub of the Year (2006) and is one of the top 60 whisky pubs in the world.

Then when you are ready for a meal, visit Khushi's which is less than 100 yards up the hill. This is the oldest (and many say the best) Indian restaurant in Edinburgh. Khushi's has recently moved to these premises which are quite palatial. They don't serve alcoholic beverages but you can take a carry out from the Bow. I don't think there is a corkage charge.

Here's a couple of links:

http://www.bowbar.com/

http://www.khushis.com/

ak222002

rose street has lots of pubs , paul o'grady (uk tv ) says its one of the best streets in edinburgh , also theres a few in the high street (or royal mile same street) look up google pubs in edinburgh theres lots of sites that include a lists of pubs

Angel

They don't like the English much up there.

Last time I was there (few years back) there were loads, only city I've ever been thrown into a pub by the police, class!!

Have a wicked time is a great place to go day or night.

scotland_rockers

there is some good pups on the royal mile (near the castle) and i'm not to shour about a curry houes but there is a chines called "jimmy chungs" on weverly bridge and 1 acroos the road from the lyceum theater (near castle terrace car park)

Basement Bob

Jim has nailed it on the head.

PS Didn't know Edinburgh had a salt market. We have Grassmarket, Haymarket & Lawnmarket but no Saltmarket

Ruphus B Tripehound

around the salt market area from what i remember some good pubs but dont forget to take your haggis traps

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