Montpeliers
Jules Clark of Montpeliers won the Unsung Hero Award at the 2024 Scottish Bar and Pub Awards, which is an award for a person and not for this room.1
Why go
The published record on this bar is thin. The 2024 Scottish Bar and Pub Awards list has one Montpeliers win on it, and it belongs to Jules Clark rather than to the bar.1 The other place the name appears on that list is the Black Ivy and Montpeliers Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, which is a category the group sponsors and which was won by Alex and Rachel Palumbo of Hey Palu and Chancho. The same sponsorship runs again in 2025 as the Black Ivy and Montpeliers Rising Star Entrepreneurial Award, won by Edward Fox of Encore Bars.2 Nobody has published a word about the drink or the food here.
Good to know
- Hygiene, and read this first: the Food Hygiene Information Scheme rating is Improvement Required, from a City of Edinburgh inspection on 13 October 2025. No new rating was pending as at 7 August 2026, nearly ten months later.3
- Getting there: 159-161 Bruntsfield Place, on a stretch that also holds a delicatessen, a wine bar and several small kitchens.
Verdict
listed — This long-running Bruntsfield Place bar has a manager who won an industry Unsung Hero award in 2024. Nothing read this pass describes the drinks or the food, and the current hygiene rating is Improvement Required from October 2025 with no re-rating pending. That combination keeps it on the list and off the recommendation.