Deacon Brodies Tavern, Edinburgh

David Walton left this review about Deacon Brodies Tavern

Visited 05/11/25

Cask was Nicholson's pale ale, a fine Bass, the dark TT LL, and then the Jack Back session pale ale and the Stewart's 80/- from Stewart Brewing that were well represented in all the pubs I visited and were advertising their award of Scottish brewery of the year on their clips. Keg offering was Innis & Gunn lager, Hollywood Pale ale from Stewart Brewing, Madri, Tenants, Henry Weston's Vintage cider, Peroni, Guinness, Jubel peach & Budvar.

Quite small venue in tourist central but pulls it off as a pretty reasonable pub with their cask offering (the Bass here was v good and my only sighting of it in my collection of Edinburgh Central venues visited). It is bare boarded with the bar counter along the left-hand wall after a seating area with a red leather banquette in the window to the left of the entrance. The same red leather banquette down the right-hand wall serving regular tables before a few booth tables with similar red leather cushioned seating in the rear right-hand corner. Another impressive ornate ceiling and this was the first venue that I got with a TV on showing Sky News and playing piped music. An impressive mural on the right-hand wall in the front part of the venue. There is a dining room upstairs that seemed to get good traffic on my visit.

On 8^th November 2025 - rating: 6
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