The cheap pint in an old room.

The rooms, best first

• Dreadnought Leithverified

  Four cask lines carry zero regulars and ran GBP 4.20 to GBP 5 a pint, every one from an independent brewery.

• The Stockbridge Tapverified

  A specialist real alehouse holds the Stockbridge corner, and CAMRA Edinburgh has put it on the Pub of the Year podium four years running.

• Jolly Judgeverified

  CAMRA's Edinburgh branch has voted this its Cider Pub of the Year three years running, on six ciders in rotation.

• Malt & Hopsverified

  A single room on Leith Shore dates from 1747, hop bines hang in the ceiling each harvest, and the cask list goes on the mirror.

• Athletic Armsverified

  A rotating 42 malts pour at GBP 2.50 for a Scots measure and the butcher's pies cost three, in a Two star historic interior.

• Kay’s Barverified

  Three regular casks and three rotating guests pour in a converted Victorian wine merchant the size of a front room.

• Bennets Barverified

  Four spirit casks stand on the gantry, and CAMRA's heritage record calls them the last set left in an Edinburgh pub.

• The Bow Barverified

  Seven Scottish air pressure founts stand on this bar, which CAMRA's branch records as more than any other pub anywhere.

• Leslie's Barverified

  Ticket-window hatches let the lounge order without being seen from the public bar, and the good pint ran GBP 4.60.

• Sandy Bell'sverified

  Free folk plays here every evening and every afternoon through August.

• The Oxford Barverified

  CAMRA's surveyors call this the least altered pub in Edinburgh, and the front bar seats about four people.

• Steel Coulson Southsideverified

  Up to six cask ales and ciders run on handpump under retained cornices, and the pours often come off a gravity stillage at the end of the bar.

• Guildford Armsverified

  Ten fonts draw on up to eight Scottish breweries, under the ornate Victorian ceiling nobody ever took out.

• The Roseburn Barverified

  An 1880s corner pub by Murrayfield keeps its etched glass partitions, and CAMRA lists no other Regional Inventory Three Star interior in Edinburgh and the Lothians.

• The Black Catverified

  Two cask lines change constantly and both come from small Scottish brewers, in a cheap New Town room with folk sessions.

• The Dagda Barverified

  A stone-flagged eighteenth-century tenement bar gives a third of its floor to the counter, and Time Out ranked it 21st best pub in the UK for 2026.

• Cloisters Barverified

  Eight rotating cask lines mean a different list every visit, in a converted Tollcross parsonage.

• Mathers West Endverified

  The water engine that pushed beer up these lines on air pressure still sits in the cellar, and staff will show it to you when the bar is quiet.

• The Barony Barverified

  Four cask lines carry no permanent beer on any of them, poured under a seven-bay oak gantry from 1899.

• The Kenilworthverified

  One mahogany island bar stands under a double-height room, and CAMRA's surveyors are the reason the building is listed category A.

• Halfway Houseverified

  Four cask lines rotate with nothing permanent on any of them, in a tiny room partway up Fleshmarket Close.

• The Standing Orderverified

  Jeff drinks here for the cheap round and the room, which is a former bank hall on George Street.