Malt Shovel Inn
City of Edinburgh inspectors passed this pub on 2 April 2026, and that is the only thing anybody has published about it.1
Why go
No critic, guide or paper has written about this pub. A search on 7 August 2026 came back with material on four other businesses on the same street and nothing at all on this one. The operator's own estate page for the pub returns a not-found, which is a broken link and is not evidence that the pub has gone. What that leaves is an open Old Town pub with a clean inspection from April 2026 and nobody on record about what it pours.
Good to know
- Address: 11-15 Cockburn Street, on the curve between the Royal Mile and Waverley.
- Booking: walk-in.
- Hygiene: Food Hygiene Information Scheme Pass, inspected 2 April 2026, FHRSID 119880. Four months old.1
- Finding it on the hygiene record: the FSA files the premises as The Malt Shovel. The Inn spelling returns nothing.
- Same street, different businesses: three other Cockburn Street premises at other numbers currently hold Improvement Required. None of them is this one.
- Hours, beer and price: none published anywhere reachable.
Verdict
listed — A pub on Cockburn Street that the register inspected on 2 April 2026 and passed, and about which nothing else is on record. A full-text scan of this project's crawl store on 7 August 2026 found material on four other businesses on the same street and not one line about this one, and the operator's own estate page for it returns a not-found. So there is no beer list, no room description, no hours and no verdict to give, and inventing any of them would be worse than leaving the gap. It is on the list because it is open, it is central, it passed a recent inspection and it sits on a street that is one of the better short walks in the Old Town. Walk in if you are passing and want a pint on Cockburn Street. Nothing here says go out of your way.