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Wintersgills is an old style bar with two doors in middle of building. The left goes to a small lounge with a semi-circular servery at the front and booth like seating beyond this. The right door takes you to a long bar with banquette seating along the right wall. There is some shelf seating at left of entrance where a door makes the connection to the lounge. At the back of the bar, in a small room with a seven table dining area. There are regular music nights and quizzes. Nice wooden counter and gantry, and deep cornice ceiling Food served.

Have a pint here

Heavy:       Level Head; Belhaven Best

Lager:         West 4;  Tennent’s;  Birra Moretti; Peroni; Amstel

Cider:          Strongbow    ; Strongbow Dark Fruit                                               Guinness

Stravaigin   is a lovely street level bar- restaurant. There are two doors in middle of the front, with the right hand one taking you to a room with the servery along the right-side wall and dining seating around the walls. The left side is the restaurant from which there are stairs to an upper level with tables and chairs. Outside seating along pavement.

Have a pint here

Heavy/IPA :          Neck Oil; Hollywood Pale Ale

Lager:           Asahi; West 4; Paulanar; Heidi Weisse

Cider: Thistly Cross Guinness

The Old Schoolhouse is a converted school. The front playground now has lots of wooden tablessome with covering. The main body of the old school is a very large Belhaven bar with the servery on the far-right wall. The entrance area has large dining sized tables and a pool table. Beyond this area is the servery with booths along both walls and tall tables in the middle of the room. Opposite the servery is a slightly raised area with more dining sized tables.

There is a very high ceiling with air condition pipes hang down with lots of large lights. There are several large TV screens, including one outside.

Have a half pint

Heavy/IPA :  Belhaven Best;  Level Head; Neck Oil; Innes & Gunn Session Ale

Lager:    Birra Moretti; Madri; Heidi Wiesse; Estrella; Peroni; Amstel; Tennent’s;  Innes & Gunn Lager St Mungo

Cider:    Strongbow; Strongbow Dark Fruits                                           Guinness   ; Belhaven Black   

Dram! Is a long thin bar with rooms running the length of it. The main entrance takes you to a room with the servery on the back wall. One room is down to the left from here while there are two rooms, one through from the other up to the right. The lower room has several large benches and large tables for bigger parties. These rooms both have large windows overlooking the street and the outside seating. The servery room has several tall tables.

Although the name might give the impression of a stylised Scottish bar it is more subtle than that with deer heads rather than tartan. Wooden floor with wood and striped back to the stone walls.

Competitive prices for the area.

Have a pint here

Real ale:               Shapes in the Clouds (Fyne Ale); {previous ales Kelburn Sunrise;  Shipwreck (Eden Mill)}

Heavy:                  The Kernal pale Ale; Joker;  Schofferhofer Prickly Pear Cactus

Lager:                    Tennent’s;   Fustenberg; Weihnestephaner; Birra Moretti; Inne & Gunn;   Jubel Beer with Peach

Cider: Inch’s Guinness

FF West End (where FF stands for Finsbay Flatiron) is a corner diner-bar. Inside the front door the tall stainless steel servery is on the right with banquette seating and dining tables under the windows round to the left . There are some tall tables and stools in centre of the room and in the corner. Further banquette seating along window side and then round along the back wall going deeper into the room than the servery. Stripped back thick stone walls for corner sides and brick wall behind servery.

Have a half pint

Heavy:                  Chieftain; Blue Moon; Cassis Blackcurrant Beer (6 degrees North) Moonraker pale Ale; Moonraker Hibiscus Sour

Lager:                    Tennent’s; Madri; Staroperamen; Humburg Vier; Birrificio Angles Poretti

Cider:                    Aspall Guinness

The Arlington is a small one roomed bar with the entrance on the corner and outside seating along both sides. The servery is down the left side wall and has several stools. There is seating to the right underneath the windows. The middle of the room is clear for standing and music performance. The far end has some tables and seating by the wall. Clever pictures of the pub in famous places (eg Beatles walking into it) are on the wall. The stolen Stone of Destiny was supposedly hidden here after being stolen on Christmas 1950. Popular myth has it still there with a fake being returned.

Have a half pint

Heavy:  Caledonia Best

Lager:    Tennent’s;  Stone of Destiny Lager; Heverlee;  Stella

Cider:    Ye Old English Cider                                        Guinness          

The Drake is a very attractive basement bar and restaurant with outside seating to front and through to rear. Going down stairs there is the main door and outside seating straight ahead under a canopy. The main door enters to a large square room with a large rug on a wooden floor in front of a fireplace. To the right are three booths while there is banquette seating at window then on opposite wall is a fireplace followed by more banquette seating into the corner. Beyond this comfortable room is an opening to the servery area. This consists of the tall wooden servery against the back wall and a tall table and stools in the middle of the room. Down the right side of the servery is a passage that eventually leads to an outside seating area of tall wooden tables and metal stools.

Round to the right from the servery is the entrance to a second large room with windows over looking the front outside seating area. This room has banquette seating and wide dining style tables. Stone walls for room walls and back of servery.

have a pint

Heavy/Pale Ale: Tropical pale Ale (Brewgooder); Neck Oil

Lager: Drake’s house Lager; Amstel; Birra Moretti; Cruzcampo

Cider; Inch’s Guinness

Camerons (was The Carnarvon) is a new take on an old pub. They have kept the ceiling , panelled walls and the two snugs at the back from The Carnarvon but changed the large island bar into a smaller horshoe counter coming out half way up the left side wall and curling round towards the rear of the room. This achieves a large open room between the door and the counter.

Coming in the entrance to the left are some tall tables with banquette seating leading to some booths, while to the right there is banquette seating and tables into the corner and up the right wall to the side door at the top of the counter. behind the banquette seating and on the pillars is the panelling from its previous existance. The wooden counter, with stools, and matching gantry are new and shiny but keep an older design. The smaller than before servery curves around to the rear where there are two snugs with banquette seating.

Have a pint here

Heavy:  Caledonia Best; Innes and Gunn session Ale

Lager           Tennent’s;  Carling;  Heverlee; Birra Moretti

Cider:                   Magners; Magners Dark Fruit Guinness    

The Carnarvon is a small corner bar with entrances on both sides. The servery is a central island with stools all around it. There are two small snugs off the back left of the bar, these have two tables and seating in each. There is banquette seating and some small tables either side of the main entrance. The left side also has a couple of booths. The brown wood servery sits on brown laminate flooring with wood panelling halfway up walls with brownish wallpaper above this leading to a golden ceiling with white cornicing. There are small pictures adorning the wall competing with 4 TV screens

Have a pint here

Heavy:  Belhaven Best

Lager           Tennent’s;  Carling;  Stella

Cider:                    Strongbow                                          Guinness