Filling Station

Advantages: sells cocktails, happy hour, great food, good atmosphere
Disadvantages: can get very very busy.

The filling station is situated on the royal mile just over from the festival office. It is decorated in an american diner theme, with a bar then good sized seating area mainly made up of booths. The bar is very popular and it is always impossible to get a seat at busy times. The reason the bar is so popular is that it sells cocktails in glasses or a pitcher priced at ten pounds. This is good value as they are generous with the shots. The range ...
...in the Filling station. This could be due to the mixture of people it attracts. If you are in Edinburgh and felling hungry I would recommend this place as you can relax drink cheap cocktails whilst having a filling meal, what more could you ask for. ... Read review

Advantages: Opens early
Disadvantages: Grubby and uninteresting

...I simply to had to write a review on this topic, simply because I can't believe it is in the database. It is neither a famous nor interesting pub, but it has a certain charm about it. For those who know Edinburgh, The Scotsmans Lounge is situated at the top of Cockburn Street, just off The Royal Mile. While it may be devoid of the Americana / bric-a-brac feel of its near neighbour The Filling Station, it has bags of character. You really do feel as if you're in a 1950's watering hole where shift workers congregate both late at night and early in the morning. The only problem with this is that the 1950's were a dismal period in Scotland and shift workers are generally rude, dirty and smelly. Of course, opening at 6am is a major virtue in an establishment of this kind (many's the time we have ended up in here or The Penny Black at ungodly... Read review

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Advantages: none
Disadvantages: many

...been vacated. A few yards from our balcony, in the gardens, was the ice machine and having seen what crawled in and out of it we declined to use it. We did fill a jug and stand un-opened bottles in it, but there's no way that ice was going in any drink of mine. Breakfast was entertaining - rock hard streaky bacon, shrivled egg and home fries. Home fries are fried potatoe peelings - honestly. We had only booked breakfast for one week, thankfully, and bought sandwiches from the neighbouring filling station for the second week. The pool was empty for the first few days, something to do with pollution, but they filled it later. They had a lovely lake in the grounds, with hundreds of baby turtles or terrapins, I'm not sure which. Many people complained of itching whilst we were there, and on our return I got the same - it turned out... Read review

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Advantages: Near school, cheap beer, Millionaire machine
Disadvantages: It ain't a classy joint....

...Lets just get a couple of things straight before I start. York and the York area is home to 19 pubs and inns named The Bay Horse or The Bay Horse Inn. Through no fault of my own, Bay Horse pubs in York are known as ones who harbour men of a certain sexual persuasion. Whether you would want to frequent one is none of my business. However, the Bay Horse I am assessing is The Bay Horse, located on the A19 route into York, addressed 105 Main Street, Fulford, York. To get there, from the centre of York, follow signs for the A19 to Selby, progress into Fulford, a suburb of York. After passing a Repsol filling station, around 200m further south, on the left hand side of the road, is the Bay Horse. From the South, go into York from the McArthur Glen Designer Outlet exit of the A64. The pub is on the right hand side of the road about 3... Read review

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