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The Booking Office (JD Wetherspoon), Edinburgh
Edinburgh
EH1 1BQ
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J D WetherspoonReviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Booking Office (JD Wetherspoon)
Decent 'spoons housed in the small former eponymous building at the top of taxi road ramp which is larger inside than you might expect from its previous incarnation as a Chinese restaurant. Busy but not overcrowded on this afternoon revisit when the real ale selection from nine of 12 handpumps included a reasonable selection from the Scottish Real Ale festival list, including the Birds & Bees from William Bros (£3.19).
On 18th February 2018
- rating: 7
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hondo . left this review about The Booking Office (JD Wetherspoon)
Originally the booking office for the train station which then became the parcels office then a bar and then a chinese restaurant. Wetherspoons spent around £1.9 million transforming the site. Quite a plain interior with a replica North British Railway Company mosaic at the entrance. Handy for the train station it has live train departure screens and is across the road from the airport bus terminus.
On 12th February 2018
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Aqualung . left this review about The Booking Office (JD Wetherspoon)
I fully expected this to be a typical station JDW but it is far enough on the edge of Waverley Station for it not to be.
If you find yourself on Waverley Station just go up the Taxi road heading West from the middle of the station and it's on the right at the top.
Inside it's an open plan rectangular room but there are some stairs leading down to the toilets and a patio. I turned up here at around ten on a Thursday morning to find there are still a few outposts of drinking civilisation left in Scotland, although whether they would have served me four hours earlier when they open is another matter.
Beers available apart from Abbot and Doom Bore were all Scottish with only a small amount of doubling up. I went for the Stewart's Edinburgh Gold (£3.19) which was ridiculously expensive for a JDW but in good nick. Due to the high prices I doubt that I would bother coming here again which is a shame as apart from that it seems a decent JDW.
On 27th July 2016
- rating: 7
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William Purnell left this review about Acanthus
Closed. Now Jimmy Cheung's Chinese Buffet
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On 11th October 2009
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