Thomson's Bar — Restaurant in City of Edinburgh

Derided by many as being an auld mans pub, which is just an insulting way of saying its one of the few proper pubs left. The small mercies of good taste , ensure that this pub has not gone for the sky sports noise box of every other pub in the toon nor sold itself out for the tourist currency or hipster -fakeation. If you want to go to a pub to drink a good selection of well sourced beer , socialise or just pass the time with a pint you wont be short changed. Long may it continue in its resistance to commercial conformity ,we need more pubs like this and the fake SNP no-marks should pay pubs like this a subsidy to continue in the interest of national heritage , an element that they bizarrely seem to care nothing about in the mad , bad global village that is fast becoming...

Staff didn't really engage with us on entry, served as no queue at bar.

They have a lip in the bar, it's just smaller than a pint, and I put my pint on it, the pint obviously tipped and split, I was mortified and apologised lots to the people around and the landlords that was serving the people next to me, he didn't look at me, acknowledge what had happen, or stop to help just got some blue roll and wiped a bit, I asked him to pass the roll so I could help and he ignored me and went back to pouring a pint, the bar was swimming he is the most RUDE and IGNORANT, manager I have ever met or encountered, I will never go back there and will let everyone know how rude the manager is, if your not a regular you can get...

I'm here on vacation and I'm staying about 1/4 mile away at Mercure Hotel. It's Friday, the rest of the group is sleeping and I wanna beverage. I don't Thompson's Bar on the mar and I'm not disappointed. It's not packed but it's got a dozen locals and more keep arriving.

I have a half dozen drinks, chat with everyone (they are so curious about my living in Los Angeles) and it's great. I fully recommend this local bar, the people are of high standard and friendly. It can feel crowded and loud, no music just locals partying so don't be afraid to jump into a conversation. I just had to try the OG...