http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Quiz: Edinburgh pubs - what are they now?" en Thu, 21 May 2026 10:29:09 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-318933 Wed, 04 Dec 2019 20:05:33 +0000 unhurt 318933@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote>One was great but with an owner who hated the general public. One was a sort of dampo house made of harling (Kestrel was its name - some people might remember it fondly as they did their underage drinking in it)</blockquote></p> <p>Me and my pals did our underage drinking in the former. General misanthropy aside it was indeed a very very very nice pub. Still miss it on Xmas Eve if I'm home. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-318929 Wed, 04 Dec 2019 18:50:04 +0000 gembo 318929@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Honky was grim<br /> The Balerno populace has gone nuts for this new pub<br /> I cannot fathom why<br /> I am sure it will be good<br /> 20 years back the village had four pubs. One was great but with an owner who hated the general public. One was a sort of dampo house made of harling (Kestrel was its name - some people might remember it fondly as they did their underage drinking in it)<br /> Malleny /Honky was grim<br /> Grey Horse snug had open fire - IWRATS could have pushed the punters into it then too. It is now a stove that is too hot for the room despite being the tiniest of stoves. An inefficient open fire better.<br /> THer grey horse had a makeover and I get on well with the staff but this is not universal<br /> The people who run the letterbox restaurant in the Post Office are lovely<br /> Come to Balerno, book a room in the hotel, walk up to The Kips, go to the other pub, visit the covenanter's grave, go to the post office? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-318927 Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:52:12 +0000 I were right about that saddle 318927@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No, just young. Guy started on the 'I was a miner with an outdoor lavvie' thing and fell in the fire. I pulled him out and his son started on the 'How come you pushed my dad in the fire' thing so we bolted. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-318926 Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:20:54 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 318926@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Were you being... immoral? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-318925 Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:18:48 +0000 I were right about that saddle 318925@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Old Malleny Arms open but gentrified</em></p> <p>I once had to leave that pub sharpish after an old guy fell in the open fire while lecturing me and a young lady. First ever visit to Balerno. Coloured my view for life. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-318921 Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:06:07 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 318921@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Old Malleny Arms open but gentrified</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/eating-out/former-balerno-high-school-pupil-opens-bistro-gateway-pentlands-1331483" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/eating-out/former-balerno-high-school-pupil-opens-bistro-gateway-pentlands-1331483</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238899 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:46:05 +0000 wangi 238899@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Got the Beaten Docket wrong" - it's most famous incarnation was as the ass blower. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238890 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:44:02 +0000 slowcoach 238890@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Why is there the bike above the door at the Blackbird?</p> <p>14/20, (I guessed wrong for 7,11, and 16-19) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238879 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:59:08 +0000 cb 238879@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>(Think that might have been a Humblebrag there) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238878 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:58:37 +0000 cb 238878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Surprisingly well implemented quiz for the Evening News website, with the after/before pictures being a nice touch.</p> <p>I reckon someone with no knowledge at all of Edinburgh pubs could get a reasonably good score given the way the multiple choices were presented. I'm pretty clueless on this topic but managed 16; possibly too much knowledge would be a distraction. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238876 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:48:47 +0000 Colonies_Chris 238876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo: I'm aghast. Care to share the story of how Joni got banned from the Doric? Or is it still too painful a memory? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238863 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 09:40:49 +0000 chdot 238863@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Malleny arms sitting derelict now"</p> <p>Someone run out of money?</p> <p>"</p> <p>Address Malleny Arms Hotel 15 Main Street Balerno EH14 7EQ<br /> Proposal Refurbishment and extension to ground floor bar of licensed premises plus associated alterations.<br /> Status Application Granted<br /> Decision Issued Date Fri 27 Nov 2015</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238862 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 08:10:46 +0000 gembo 238862@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Malleny arms sitting derelict now </p> <p>At the Balerno farmers market On Saturday I was talking to the chap trying to sell wood pellet burning stoves (hard sell as everyone has wood burning stoves and that book Norwegian wood (chapters include how to stack wood etc). </p> <p>The other son of the man IWRATS set on fire comes up and asks if there is any smoke to which stove pellet man says a little, the stove is connected to a flue on his lorry you can see the smoke trickling out. IWRATS immolation son starts ranting that the second he puts a fire on his neighbour's complain. He then laments the loss of the Malleny arms which was his place. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238861 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 01:43:32 +0000 I were right about that saddle 238861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well the worst pub I ever went into was the Malleny Arms. Old geezer came over to shout at me about outside toilets at random and fell in the fireplace he was so wrecked. I picked him out of the fire and dusted him down, but some hoodlum claiming to be his son turned up during this process and pointedly asked why I'd set fire to his dad (in a tone of voice that suggested this might not be the first time someone had done this), with his eyeballs stotting out of his head and doing some kind of kung-fu dance. I took the hint and retreated with my companion.</p> <p>Not an ideal first date I can tell you. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238860 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 01:32:09 +0000 kaputnik 238860@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>19/20 but I think I have relative youth on my side; I wasn't being misdirected by knowing what pubs <em>used</em> to be called. I'd have faired poorly if it was a "what did they used to be called" quiz.</p> <p>Got the Beaten Docket wrong. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238857 Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:24:22 +0000 Cyclingmollie 238857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I remember The Reverie as the Wine Glass. The worst pub I ever went into was the Telford Arms: the rumor was that you had to have ten scars to stand at the bar. Bloke threatened to feed my mixed race colleague to his dog. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238815 Sun, 11 Dec 2016 12:47:06 +0000 gembo 238815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The grey horse in Balerno has just had a great makeover, lots of original features such as doors and fireplaces revealed. Will be public bar as separate same as now, with log fire then lounge with. Am guessing bar food then restaurant proper which will be gastro food and also Chinese menu. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238808 Sun, 11 Dec 2016 08:59:02 +0000 Nelly 238808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>16/20 including a few unforgivable errors in Leith pubs. </p> <p>Surprised that the Southpour question referenced Reverie, maybe shows the author's youth. Used to be The Wine Glass and was where we used for semi illicit drinking when in 6th year of Liberton. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238802 Sat, 10 Dec 2016 19:22:53 +0000 Rosie 238802@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>15/20. Spider's Web was a jolly dive full of Beatles memorabilia. Dundee Arms was spoken of in awed tones as it still had sawdust on the floor. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238794 Sat, 10 Dec 2016 11:33:36 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 238794@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Throughout my childhood the bar formerly known as Robertons was called the green tree. </p> <p>At the end of its days as 'the tree' it had become a bolt hole for the neo nazi groups who had been purged from The Spiders Web at Haymarket. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238773 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 23:04:16 +0000 gembo 238773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@frenchy, the staff in the Doric don't know who she is, so she could get back in now but she bears a grudge., hope a, b and c make it out of 2016 the year of the cull. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238766 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 22:35:08 +0000 Frenchy 238766@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>We 'all' know it was B.</em></p> <p><em>Some</em> of us aren't really sure who Joni Mitchell is... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238761 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:50:20 +0000 chdot 238761@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We 'all' know it was B.</p> <p>Some of us know which publication's staff she was in the company of.</p> <p>Though I bet if she ever went back (unlikely) she would no longer be barred. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238758 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:25:56 +0000 gembo 238758@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also 15/20 shame the following question was not asked</p> <p>Which world famous and Gembo favourite singer is banned from The Doric Tavern?</p> <p>A. Aretha Franklin<br /> B. Joni Mitchell<br /> C. Rickie Lee Jones </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238750 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 20:30:21 +0000 crowriver 238750@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, that was fun. A few wrong which I should have remembered, but didn't. Possibly I was the worse for wear when I last visited some of these establishments... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238747 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 19:15:36 +0000 I were right about that saddle 238747@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>15/20. </p> <p>I used to work beside a lady who worked the door at the Dundee Arms at weekends. Cheerful, friendly, huge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17254#post-238742 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 19:06:14 +0000 chdot 238742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>an infamous pub which locals referred to as the "Vietnam" on account of its rough reputation.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/entertainment/quiz-edinburgh-pubs-what-are-they-now-1-4313742" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/entertainment/quiz-edinburgh-pubs-what-are-they-now-1-4313742</a> </p>