Pub Crawl

Edinburgh Pub Crawl Walking Tour
Edinburgh

From Burns singing his farewells to Rebus nursing a whisky, eleven pubs where Edinburgh's writers drank, argued, and found their stories.

11 stops · 4 km

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Every Stop Has a Story

The Pear Tree

An 18th-century student pub once visited by Boswell and Burns, with a cameo in One Day.

Sandy Bell's

The legendary folk pub where poet Hamish Henderson held court, now home to a bust of him sculpted from the pages of his own books.

The Last Drop

A pub named for the final whisky given to prisoners on their way to the Grassmarket gallows.

The White Hart Inn

The pub that claims to be Edinburgh's oldest, its rafters still painted with the verses Robert Burns wrote here for Ae Fond Kiss.

The Jolly Judge

A hidden close pub steeped in 17th-century atmosphere, favoured by Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith.

Badger & Co.

Kenneth Grahame's childhood home, now a Wind in the Willows-themed pub serving "culinary adventures beyond the Wild Wood."

The Oxford Bar

Inspector Rebus's regular haunt, where you might even spot Ian Rankin having a pint.

Milne's Bar

Known as the Poets' Pub, where Hugh MacDiarmid and Scotland's literary giants held court in the basement "Little Kremlin."

The Café Royal

A Victorian masterpiece of tile and mural work that doubled as a filming location for Chariots of Fire.

The Conan Doyle: The Forensic Origin

A pub honouring Arthur Conan Doyle near his birthplace, named for the author whose own medical professor's real-life deductions inspired Sherlock Holmes.

The Cumberland Bar

The New Town beer garden where Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street characters go for a pint.

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