The Caley Picture House (JD Wetherspoon), Edinburgh

David Walton left this review about The Caley Picture House (JD Wetherspoon)

Visited 06/11/25

Cask was Belhaven 80/-, Abbot, Loch Lomond Lost in Mosaic, Vale Gravitas pale ale, Salcombe Belgica, Salem dark fruits porter, the Blood Orange hazy pale from Stewart Brewing, the Raspberry Ripple cider from Snails Bank, the Double Sean pale ale from Elgood's. Keg was Stella, Stowford Press, original & dark fruits SB, Tennent's, Leffe Blonde, Punk IPA, Bud Light, Corona, Guinness, Stewart Brewing Session IPA, Angelo Poretti, K1664, Stella, Carling, Budweiser, Paolozzi lager, Stewart Brewing Hazy IPA, a new AF one from me the Joker AF from Williams Bros Brewing Co, Innis & Gunn lager, Worthington CF, Coors & Carlsberg.

Impressive cinema conversion, true JDW venue. Cinema projector in lobby just inside old-time cinema doors off the busy road outside. Bar is up some steps from the lobby (am sure there must be a lift). Enter from the rear of the stalls with some regular tables in front of the open kitchen, before a couple of steps down into another typical JDW seating configuration of regular tables, tall tables, and some booth seating. There was an area heavy on booths over to the rear right-hand corner. As usual carpeted with a large semi-circular tiled area in front of the bar counter which habits the cinema screen end of the stalls. Some very impressive retention of old features, very art deco with the lighting and the gilding around the ceiling and backdrop to the bar counter. There is a circle seating area up some stairs from each side of the rear of the stalls, certainly also served by a lift!

On 8^th November 2025 - rating: 6
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