Things to do and see in Edinburgh

the only others i could recommend are the arches bar and rab ha's in the merchant city, though it has gone downhill a bit since it changed hands a few months a go. I dont like uisge beatha though im not exactly sure why.

someone do the ipswich one!

Incidentally if people are talking about good pubs in glasgow can we also talk about shopping in Glasgow? Where are all the nice clothes shops? I feel the need to spend money.

At that hour in the morning it is about all I can suggest. My flat will be closed for sleeping, I am afraid!

Ally C - last bus is midnight, then about 6am in the week - exceptions are made for Fri and Sat night.

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The Penny Black may well be open earlier than that - it is long since I tried. They basically close for 10 mins to sweep the floor, then reopen. It's an alright boozer for its type (it is up some stairs) and dead handy for the bus station too!

Special buses for festival time? Only ones that drive at tourists.

I think when you posted Ally, BRMC had just come on and it made suitable background music for Richard to tell me of all his crimes.

People at the Corn Exchange kept coming up to us and being weird, including someone middle aged of indeterminate gender and long blonde harit who thought I was very handsome and in Franz Ferdinand and then told me he/she used to be in the New York Dolls and disappeared.

2ManyDJs were pretty fun. I can't remember. But I don't like the Corn Exchange.

I should eat something.

Brass Monkey
Royal Oak
City Cafe

this is very funny.

I've been to the Royal Oak once but it was very late and i was very pissed so my recollections are a bit hazy.

The City Caff does lovely cooked breakfasts, don't think i've ever been there at night.

perhaps she just has one of those kinds of faces

(whatever that means)

the subsequent couple of times were ok too - sort of lackadaisical barman, but got served at least

last time, no less than 3 barmen stood there all ignoring us for about 10 seconds, no-one else waiting, then some cheeky wee twat with 'something about mary' type hair gel thing going on looks straight over my mate's shoulder and serves someone who has just walked in

A: 'was there any particular reason for that?'
Twunt-Barman: (smirking)'no, none at all mate'
A: 'so we'd be as well just fucking off right now then wouldn't we?'
Twunt-Barman: (laughs)

while this exchange is going on, i'm asked by a diff barman whether we're being served - but A has turned and walked out, so i have to follow...

i have no idea what the twunt's problem was

apart from the obvious

Can anyone recommend some record stores/cool shops/cafes/things to do in Edinburgh (that are definitely still in operation - this thread's pretty old school!)... I have a 4 day work trip coming up.... thank you!

Avalanche records on Cockburn Street, on the corner just up the steps from the station.