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The Milnes Bar is a pub and, like most pubs (or almost), it's also a restaurant. It boasts the best fish & chips in Edinburgh... The menu is classic, with traditional pies, burgers, sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, haggis, roast chicken, vegetarian dishes and side dishes of French fries and peas. Simple and effective!
Literary anecdote: Milnes Bar is nicknamed the "poets' pub". Indeed, in the 1950s and 1960s, it resounded with the fiery debates of two famous national poets: Hugh MacDiarmid and Norman MacCaig. The downstairs room was named The Little Kremlin in memory of these verbal jousts.
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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.