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Edinburgh Bar Designs

Contemporary Edinburgh Bars + Restaurants + Clubs + Cafes

post updated 28 December 2021

Edinburgh Bars

New Edinburgh Bar Designs Selection

Rick’s Bar
Rick's Bar
picture from the architect
The two properties, the lower ground floor of a Georgian tenement and a three-storey warehouse, have been tied together through the insertion of a glazed roof over the narrow, separating courtyard.

Opal Lounge

photo from the architect practice
Opened 20 February 2002 at 49 [51a] George Street (north side, basement): Members nightclub by Edinburgh architecture practice Malcolm Fraser Architects.

Revolution Edinburgh : former Beluga

photograph from the architects office
Beluga opened early 2001: basement bar & restaurant. The interior is clean and restrained. Beluga’s key draw is a stacked stone waterfall by the entry stairs.

Oloroso bar
Oloroso Edinburgh
image © Adrian Welch
This classy rooftop restaurant closed on the 8th August 2012. It was converted to a Thai restaurant called Chaophraya.It is located high up at the corner of Castle Street and George Street, in Edinburgh New Town.

Traverse Theatre – the longest bar in Edinburgh (at the time of writing)

photograph © Adrian Welch
The Traverse Theatre design by Nicholas Groves Raines Architects is reputed to have the longest bar in Edinburgh, though this feature doesn’t strike you as you step down into the space, nor does it feel gimmicky.

Point Hotel Edinburgh

photo : Steffen Schefer
The Point Hotel was created by refurbishing the Old St Cuthbert’s Co-operative Association Ltd. Showroom building (by TP Marnick &Son, 1937) featuring reputedly the first curtain walling in Scotland.