Guidebook for Edinburgh
Arts & Culture
The Queen's Hall
85-89 Clerk StGreat Festival and Fringe Festival music venue.
Festival Theatre
13-29 Nicolson StThe home of many great Festival performances.
Checkpoint
More festival fun!
Edinburgh University Students' Association
5/2 Bristo PlFestival venue.
Summerhall
Great new independent arts and performance spare.
Assembly Roxy
2 Roxburgh PlAssembly theatre Fridge venue.
Edinburgh's Flamenco school and performance space, regular Flamenco daily shows during festival. Tapas restaurant next door with great food.
Alba Flamenca//Flamenco/Scotland
74 E CrosscausewayEdinburgh's Flamenco school and performance space, regular Flamenco daily shows during festival. Tapas restaurant next door with great food.
Food Scene
Great coffee and breakfasts and lunches. The coffee nurses will look after you.
80 locals recommend
Kilimanjaro Coffee
104 Nicolson StGreat coffee and breakfasts and lunches. The coffee nurses will look after you.
Black Medicine Coffee Co
2 Nicolson StMore great coffee!
Spoon Cafe Bistro
Best soup and food in town!
TING THAI CARAVAN Teviot Place
9 Teviot PlAmazing Thai Food!
Earthy Foods & Goods
Ratcliffe TerraceGreat organic food.
Legendary Edinburgh curry house. Informal and low cost but great food!
40 locals recommend
Kebab Mahal
7 Nicolson SquareLegendary Edinburgh curry house. Informal and low cost but great food!
The Outsider Restaurant
15-16 George IV BridgeMore great food.
Blonde Restaurant
71-75 St. Leonard's StGreat food.
Kim's Mini Meals
5 Buccleuch StGreat Korean food.
Drinks & Nightlife
The Peartree
38 W Nicolson StBeer in a Beer Garden, yes please!!
Paradise Palms
41 Lothian StRocking bar.
Sandy Bell's
25 Forrest RdGreat traditional Scottish folk music bar.
Reverie
1-5 Newington RdGreat bar and restaurant.
Hip pub with great boho vibe with cinema in the back room.
34 locals recommend
Brass Monkey Drummond Street
14 Drummond StHip pub with great boho vibe with cinema in the back room.
Greyfriars Bobby Statue
Nice olde pub.
The Southern Bar
22-26 S Clerk StNice cool bar with good beer and food.
Captains Bar
4 S College StNice wee bar with Scottish folk music.
Late night jazz bar with 2 jazz gigs every night , open till 3 am usually and 5 am during festival.
176 locals recommend
The Jazz Bar
1a Chambers StLate night jazz bar with 2 jazz gigs every night , open till 3 am usually and 5 am during festival.
The Sheep Heid Inn
43-45 The CausewayLovely old pub with food, a nice easy walk from the flat.
Entertainment & Activities
Meadows Tennis Courts
Tennis courts open to anyone, £8 an hour.
The Museum of Edinburgh
142-146 CanongateGreat museum with loads for whole family to enjoy.
Royal Commonwealth Pool
21 Dalkeith RdScottlands Commonwealth Swim centre.
The Meadows
Melville DriveLovely Park area.
Beautiful park, enjoy a walk and easy climb to the top of Arthurs Seat with great views over Edinburgh, Fife and East Lothian.
280 locals recommend
Holyrood Park
Queen's DriveBeautiful park, enjoy a walk and easy climb to the top of Arthurs Seat with great views over Edinburgh, Fife and East Lothian.
Sightseeing
Scottish Parliament Building
Scottish Parliament.
Palace of Holyroodhouse
CanongateWhere the Queen sleeps, airbnb not available here.
Adam House, The University of Edinburgh
3 Chambers StThe centre of the Enlightenment.
Edinburgh Castle
CastlehillIt's a big old castle.
Shopping
Armstrongs Vintage
81-83 GrassmarketCool vintage clothes shop.
Drum Central
125 Great Jct StDrum and percussion shop.
Scayles Music
50 St Patrick SquareMusical instrument shop.