The address 351 High Street sits on Edinburgh's Royal Mile in the heart of the Old Town, directly opposite St Giles' Cathedral and a short walk from both the Castle and the Scottish Parliament. Rather than a single attraction, the spot is best known as one of the most widely used meeting points on the Royal Mile, where a number of operators gather visitors for guided walking tours of the Old Town, ghost and history walks and trips up to Edinburgh Castle. The surrounding stretch of the High Str.....

Built in the former home of the Citrus Club, a long-standing Edinburgh nightspot, 4042 is a late-night bar and club that takes its name from its address at 40-42 Grindlay Street, near the Lyceum and Usher Hall in the Tollcross area. It pairs a dance floor and cocktail bar with an unusual feature for a club: ping-pong tables, which sit alongside the seating and bar areas. The interior leans on a deliberately rough aesthetic of distressed walls, metal grilles, graffiti and layered fly-posters, an.....

The remains of an extinct volcano, Arthur's Seat rises to 251 metres at the heart of Holyrood Park, a short walk from the centre of Edinburgh. Its rounded summit is the highest point in the city and a popular climb for the views it gives over the capital and the Firth of Forth. The hill was formed by a volcano active hundreds of millions of years ago, later shaped by glaciers that carved its distinctive crag-and-tail profile. The neighbouring Salisbury Crags, a line of steep cliffs, form part o.....

Beneath the arches of Edinburgh's South Bridge, in a warren of stone vaults off the Cowgate, Bannermans is the city's enduring home of rock, metal and punk. The main gig room, often called the tunnel because it sits directly under one of the bridge's supports, is a low, atmospheric vault that holds close to 200 people and has hosted loud, heavy music for decades. The building's history runs deep: plaques record a succession of merchants and tradesmen occupying the premises from the late eightee.....

Hidden beneath the South Bridge in the heart of Edinburgh's Old Town, the Blair Street Underground Vaults are a series of stone chambers built into the arches of the bridge in the late eighteenth century, now opened to visitors as one of the city's most atmospheric historic attractions. When the bridge was completed in the 1780s to carry a road across a valley, the spaces within its nineteen great arches were enclosed to create vaults intended for storage and for workshops serving the businesses.....

Six copper tanks of unpasteurised beer give Brewhemia its centrepiece and its boast: this large, multi-room venue near Waverley Station calls itself Scotland's only Beer Palace. Opened in July 2017 in the basement of the former Scotsman newspaper building, just off Edinburgh's Market Street, it is unmissable for travellers stepping out of the station into the Old Town. The operation is sprawling, comprising several themed rooms and bars across two floors. The Beer Palace itself draws on the spi.....

At the Canongate foot of Edinburgh's Royal Mile, a short walk downhill from the Scottish Parliament and the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Canons' Gait is a two-level bar set in a historic building on one of the Old Town's most-walked streets. It takes its name from the gait, or path, once used by the Augustinian canons of Holyrood Abbey, tying it to the medieval history of the burgh of Canongate that grew up outside Edinburgh's old walls. The venue is arranged over two floors. At street level th.....

Themed around the colour and excess of the 1970s and 1980s, Club Tropicana is a retro nightclub on Lothian Road in central Edinburgh, directly opposite the Usher Hall. It trades on nostalgia, playing the pop, disco and dance hits of those decades to a crowd that comes for an unashamedly fun, party-driven night out. Its bright, kitsch styling and feel-good soundtrack set it apart from the city's more contemporary clubs. The club occupies a prominent position in Edinburgh's west-end entertainment.....

Coco Boho is a late-night bar tucked beneath the Tigerlily venue on George Street, in the heart of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town. Opened in July 2023, it describes itself firmly as a lively, footloose drinking spot rather than a nightclub, with no guestlists, entry fees or cloakroom queues, and a promise to surprise and delight everyone who comes through the door. The basement room is dressed in a distinctive "rough luxe" style, an intimate setting designed to feel both glamorous and a little u.....

On George Street in Edinburgh's Georgian New Town, Deluca's is a late-night bar at number 125B, part of the basement-level cluster of venues beneath the Tigerlily on one of the city's most fashionable streets. It trades as an after-dark drinking and dancing spot, with a programme built around party classics, Nineties hits and pop nights aimed at weekend revellers and celebrations. George Street forms the central spine of James Craig's eighteenth-century plan for the New Town, a broad and elegan.....