Beetroot Bar & Grill
It is in Bonnyrigg, seven miles outside Edinburgh, it used to be called Bar 33, and nobody has printed a word about what the kitchen cooks.2
Why go
Polton Street is Bonnyrigg, about seven miles southeast of the Royal Mile, and Midlothian council inspects the kitchen rather than Edinburgh's.3 CAMRA's Edinburgh & South East Scotland branch files the premises under the previous name Bar 33 and records its cellar in three words, Cask Ale not available
, on a page dated April 2024 that flags its own upkeep.2 The Edinburgh Evening News put the venue on the record in August 2019 as one of ten licensed premises signing up to the Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Pubwatch, which fixes the date it was trading under this name.1 Past that the published account runs out.
Order this / avoid
- Order: ask at the counter and judge it yourself. No source this list uses has printed a single dish off this kitchen.
- Avoid: driving out without calling first. No opening hours are published anywhere, the venue runs no website, and the number on the CAMRA listing is the only way to check the door is open.2
What locals & experts say
- Edinburgh Evening News, Kevin Quinn (27 August 2019):
The Polton Inn, Laird n Dog, Luci's, The Papermill, The Anvil, The Calderwood, Lasswade Rugby Club, The Chase, The Royal Oak and Beetroot Bar and Grill have all registered with the Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Pubwatch scheme, four years after the original local pubwatch broke down.
A membership fact, and the only bylined line about this venue in an approved masthead.1 - Nobody has reviewed the food. The venue's own Facebook page is the likeliest place its menu lives and it is closed to us.
Good to know
- Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 7 July 2026, FHRSID 805797, Midlothian council. Four weeks old at the time of writing, which makes it the most current fact anyone has about the place.3
- Same street, other records: the hygiene register files Bannoc Brewhouse at the same number, with a Pass dated November 2022, and Cheeky'z Bar Grill next door at 33A, with a Pass dated October 2025. They are separate businesses and nothing here transfers between them.3
- Drinks: CAMRA recorded no cask ale in April 2024, with the branch's own warning that the listing is lightly maintained. Read it with the date attached.2
- Hours, price, booking: nothing published. The venue has never run a website of its own, which CAMRA recorded in 2024 and which still holds. Phone ahead on 0131 663 0616 before making a plan around it.2
- Getting there: Bonnyrigg town centre, in Midlothian, roughly seven miles southeast of the city. This is a drive or a bus, and it sits in a different local authority from every other Edinburgh row on the list.
Verdict
listed — A town-centre bar and grill in Bonnyrigg, seven miles outside the city, which traded as Bar 33 before it changed its name and was signed up to the local pubwatch by August 2019. That is the whole published record. Nobody with a byline in a source this guide uses has eaten here, so there is no dish to send anyone for, no price to quote and no opening hour to plan around. What the entry can say is that the premises is trading and that a Midlothian food-safety officer was in the kitchen on 7 July 2026, which is the freshest hygiene evidence on any row in this batch. It earns a pin for anyone who is already in Bonnyrigg. It is not a reason to leave Edinburgh.