The Alexander Graham Bell (JD Wetherspoon), Edinburgh

This is a fairly typical more recent JDW. The single room has been well described below and on my Thursday afternoon visit was quite busy with more people eating than drinking. Many of the male diners looked and sounded like Radio 2's Ken Bruce and were just as boring. The ten hand pumps had the JDW Scot Trio Of Doom with Deuchar's IPA and Abbot doubled up, Kelburn Jaguar doubled up, Edinbrew Friendly Fire and two I couldn't get to read. I noticed the standard guest ale price here was £2.69 so went for a festival cider (£3.35). I thought the Standing Order down the road was miles better than this one.

Much as others have described it, small by JDW standards but low ceilinged and comfortable, it's at the Charlotte Square end of George St. Two sets of five pulls with the standards and beers from further away, a different selection to the Standing Order up the road. I thought the service and beer quality weren't as good as the Standing Order and the breakfast was definitely much worse. Once again apart from Doombar no beers lower than 4.5% ABV, not good at breakfast time.

Decent enough JDW near enough in the centre of the city. It's got very few distinguishing features, but it's nicely decorated. We called in for a drink late one afternoon and found it to be very busy with shoppers and OAPs. Several guest beers on the bar and the one I had was in good nick. We called in the following morning for breakfast. Nice to see a full Scottish breakfast alongside the full English. We often have breakfast in a JDW and the service in here was some of the best we've ever had. Well done guys.