Greyfriars Bobby's Bar — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

We stopped in here for a pint while my 19 yr old high functioning autistic son was at the Scottish Museum, which he was enamored with. We sat in the bar area and ordered drinks. My son soon joined us and wanted an apple juice. They would not serve him even after my husband went up to the order area and talked with them. They told him that because we were sitting in the bar area and not ordering food, they could not serve him bc he did not bring ID showing he was over 18. Even though he was only ordering a non-alcoholic apple juice. They claimed it was the law, except we were with a local friend and he said he's never had this happen before and it was not the law. He is a local tour guide and will not be recommending this place either. Very disappointed!

Update: Very disappointed in the response from the owner who was proud of his employees. I don't understand at all the inability for a restaurant/pub not to be able to provide a cold drink to anyone (neurotypical or otherwise) when we had already purchased drinks. Had this establishment offered an alternative regarding our seating (perhaps a table outside and there were several empty or in the restaurant area) so that my son could get a non-alcoholic beverage, we would gladly have complied. However, we were told that they would not serve him anything, so we had to leave. Let this be a lesson to anyone with a family traveling to Edinburgh. We ended up going to a gift shop to get him a canned beverage. Such a...

My friends and I have visited this scenic, classic pub in late november. Since we are not from the UK ourselves (4 dutchmen) it took us a short bit to figure out that we have to order at the bar ourselves. It was quite busy at the time, so it was easy to look past the table not being cleaned out from previous eaters whilst the service was working very hard.

The scenery and atmosphere was superb, very classic and proper looking pub. It was quite crowded on a thursday afternoon, very nice to see so many people having a fun time in a cozy and friendly atmosphere.

Being from outside the UK, I opted to go for a traditional pub style dish, the slowcooked beef rib, shin & pulled brisket pie. It was an absolute delicious meal! The meat was tender, some very tasty gravy and good veggies on the side. Would recommend this to anyone! My friends had some of the burgers, veggie and meat choices, and they were very satisfied as well.

I can't recall which draft beer we had during our time, but it was cold and well poured so no complaints here either. Every amounted to a fair tab, which included some tasty starters as well.

I can fully recommend this establishment to anyone visisting Edinburg. If you are looking for a traditional pub style dinner you have to make a stop here. I know I will for sure if I ever visit Edinburgh again! Thanks for the great...

Food is a classic Scottish pub affair with haggis, Cullen skink both on the menu alongside pub grub favorites such as burgers with pulled pork on top.

It's a city pub right next to a large tourist spot so I was dubious that it wouldn't be costly for sub-par food (my experience with tourist food locations has been hit or miss) but decidedly too hungry to go anywhere else on this occasion.

Fantastic food, I was tasting the smokey pulled pork in my mind for the rest of the day. Between the high quality of the meat and the sauce i wanted to eat that was exclusively over the next few days. Prices aren't exorbitant, which was a pleasant surprise. Atmosphere is geared towards the tourists with lore about the Grefrairs Bobby around the place. The service staff ask what you've been up to and genuinely seem interested too.

Can't recommend the club sodas, as they simply tasted of soda water with a sliver of the flavouring added. Good cider choice on draft, a dry flavourful counterpart to anything delicious from the menu.

Feels like your inside a proper olden days pub while your inside. You almost expect someone to come in having trotted there by horse back and pay with shillings and...