Bellfield Brewery Taproom & Beer Garden
The brewery pours its beer in the garden beside the tanks it comes out of, and the whole range is gluten-free.12
Why go
The Skinny's verdict is that once you know the taproom is there you keep going back, with the beers rated first-rate and the food handled by a rotating roster of pop-up vendors.1 The same piece calls the beer garden and taproom award-winning and names no award body and no year, so that phrase is the writer's own description and carries no accolade behind it. The brewery's reach shows up across the city: The List reports that Nobles on Bernard Street in Leith now trades as Nobles By Bellfield with the brewery's beers on tap, all of them gluten-free.2
Good to know
- Address: 46 Stanley Place EH7 5TB, a residential street off London Road in Abbeyhill.1
- Food: pop-up vendors on rotation, so check what is trading before you plan dinner around it.1
- Price: nobody publishes one.
- Getting there: Stanley Place runs off London Road, about fifteen minutes' walk east of the top of Leith Walk and five minutes from Abbeyhill.
- Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 25 February 2020, FHRSID 1227981, and filed as a manufacturing unit. That is six and a half years old and it describes the brewery, so the hygiene register says nothing current about food service in the bar either way.3
- Name collision: the Bellfield Community Cafe on Bellfield Street in Portobello is a different business with its own hygiene registration.
Verdict
could-visit — A brewery taproom on a residential corner of Abbeyhill that nobody stumbles into, which The Skinny frames as the whole point: you go because you know it is there. The beer is made on the premises and the food is whichever pop-up is parked that day, so the kitchen is not the argument and the garden is. It stays at could-visit because the entire critical record is one line in a city roundup, no award anybody can name attaches to it, and the statutory hygiene record is six and a half years old and describes the brewery rather than the bar. Go on a dry afternoon, check what is cooking before you commit to dinner there.