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

A 1740s house where the blind poet Thomas Blacklock welcomed Robert Burns and gave Samuel Johnson breakfast, now a student pub with a huge courtyard.

Sandy Bell's

The folk-music pub that the poet and song collector Hamish Henderson called his second office.

The Last Drop

A pub named after the legendary last drink given to prisoners on their way to the Grassmarket gallows.

The White Hart Inn

The coaching inn where Robert Burns stayed on his last Edinburgh visit, and Dorothy Wordsworth found rooms "tolerably cheap".

The Jolly Judge

A low-beamed bar in James Court, where James Boswell brought Samuel Johnson home in 1773.

Badger & Co.

The New Town house where Kenneth Grahame was born, now a bar and restaurant named after The Wind in the Willows.

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 bar full of tiled pictures and stained glass, with an Oyster Bar that appears in Chariots of Fire.

The Conan Doyle: The Forensic Origin

A pub named after Arthur Conan Doyle, a short walk from his birthplace and the Sherlock Holmes statue nearby.

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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