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2024
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2024
Milnes Bar is a pub and, like almost any pub, it also has a restaurant. It boasts the best fish & chips in Edinburgh.... Le Petit Futé lets you judge! The menu is classic, with its traditional pies, burgers, sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, haggis, roasted chicken, vegetarian dishes and side dishes of chips and peas. Simple and efficient!
Literary anecdote: Milnes Bar is nicknamed "the poets' ad" Indeed, in the 1950s and 1960s, it echoed the fiery debates of two famous national poets: Hugh MacDiarmid and Norman MacCaig. The lower room has been named The Little Kremlin in memory of these verbal games.
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It was once the favoured watering hole of famous Scottish poets such as Hugh MacDiarmid and Norman MacCaig and also had a reputation for being a hub of left-wing politics, so much so that the downstairs anteroom was nicknamed the “Little Kremlin”.
These days it’s part of the Belhaven chain, but it still has much of it’s old charm and character.
The beer is very good and reasonably priced, the staff are friendly and efficient and the surroundings are pleasant and clean.
I was there on a cold Thursday evening and the sight of a real fire was most welcoming.
I didn’t have food but I’d like to have a meal here at sometime in the future.