I loved this place- first of all, I was looking for a pint of "Heavy," but could not find it in any other bar or pub- they even recommended to me to come here! It is a wonderful pub, old school with tons of whiskey boxes adorning everywhere! I ordered a nice "pulled" pint of 'Eavy and it was so good. We sat in the back room and enjoyed the vibe, the bartenders were friendly and service was excellent. I came here every night during my visit, as it was close to the hotel and a proper Pub. read more

Blue Blazer - Pint of 'eavy... - Pubs Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

I stumbled across this bar walking randomly about Edinburgh after dinner, and I could tell from a block away that this was my kind of place. No music or TVs going, just a small bar with a lot of wood, a small fireplace, and character. Plus a handful of cask ales and a healthy list of whiskeys! The people who worked there were so friendly, and they had several regulars there as well. I expect to be back each and every night of our trip! read more

Across the street from our hotel - Thought we'd have a beverage. A solid decision to stop here. The previous reviews are sort of all over the place but this is a cool pub! A great collection for the scotch fans and a must to do the "ball pull" for a shot. Bartender was fun and very helpful with our selections. Great place to stop. read more

This is a great place to have a drink. Nice service abs atmosphere. If you are around, check it out. read more

The Blue Blazer had an excellent selection of beers and mixed drinks. They don't have a kitchen which was okay with me.

This place is a complete shit hole. Appears Bathrooms have not worked for quite some time. Very dirty and staff is rude. We went there for a drink with my 80 yr old mother who only wanted a cup of tea. They did not have the ability to heat water which is strange. They also wouldn't let her bring in a small cup of tea. If you want a pub that is a bit more customer friendly I would go elsewhere read more

Blue Blazer - Pubs Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

Nice to see this place up and running again! A really nice wee bar with a good selection of ales, whisky and Rum. They do some cocktails now to, with a "Cocktail of the Month", along with some other "Of the Month" choices. Everyone in seemed to be having a great time, with a fair few playing board games! read more

A good old fashioned pub that does what a pub should do, serve drink, and does it well. The décor is verging on "scruffy" (or maybe well used is a better expression) and it's quite small so it can get rather busy. Bar staff are usually friendly and efficient, although it might take them a bit of time to be served when busy (there are only so many people who can squeeze behind the small bar at one time). Apart from the main bar area there is a back room with another 4 tables, there are two entrances into the bar which helps during busy periods, check out the mosaic floor at the main entrance. There's a fire which gives it a cozy atmosphere on winter days and on those rare hot days the doors are left open to keep it comfortably cool. The bar is traditional and always has a good selection of "real ales" on tap mostly from smaller Scottish breweries, there is also a good selection of spirits especially whiskies and rums. It is situated half way between Lothian Road and the Grassmarket making it well located for those who would rather avoid the establishments in those areas. Well worth a visit for an enjoyable drink or two. read more

I like this place. You could compare it to the bigger and brighter. Or the more elaborate woody ones (lots of those in Edinburgh). My main point is - does this pub do, what it tries to do, well? Yes, it does. It serves cask conditioned ales in a nice little setting. Gets cramped on occasion - so it is popular. Listen if you want bad pubs in Edinburgh? I will take you to some places that you have you afterwards in a shower scrubbing like a sewage worker after a blow out. Edinburgh can get bad. One word - Rutherford - You don't want details. Blue Blazer is not that. It has a reasonable whisky selection and pleasant bar staff. Maybe it is not filled with your friends. But they are someone's friends. So Be Nice. read more

I wasnt hopeful about the Blue Blazer - the area it resides in is a bit dodgy and to be frank, I would have preffered to go accross the road to the Chanter (despite rather disliking the Chanter). I am pleased to say however, I was pleasently surprised by the Blue Blazer - it was about as far from what I was expecting it to be without going for the bright pink walls and flourecent furniture. A traditionally styled pub - wood, leather, more wood etc the Blue Blazer is a rather nice place for a swift pint or one of the bars speciality rums. Cozy and relaxing even, the type of place you could imagine your Grandfather chilling. That is however, where the compliments end. The staff were rude beyond belief - one of them refusing to serve me despite my producing a drivers licence AND passport as ID. The other staff were no better, bearly hiding the fact they couldnt be bothered serving me. Its a shame really, the Blue Blazer itself is a nice pub - but the staff truely let it down. read more

Blue Blazer - Blue Blazer - Pubs Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

The name of the Blue Blazer makes me think of public schoolboys in the 50s. I thought it would be a bit stuffy, but it was a fairly nice place to get a pint in the middle of the day. The decor is old and brooding - all teak, mahogany and leather bound seats. There are so many bars like this in Edinburgh (perhaps too many?) but what makes the Blue Blazer stand out from the crowd is the immense selection of booze bottles sitting in every corner. If I wasn't impressed enough at the amount of bottles lined up in the window, I knew I had to go in when their sign outside boasted of them housing an abundance of rum. I love rum, so I was well catered for in here. It's a bit of a cross between old man pub and a bar trying to appeal to a younger audience. During the day it was friendly and relaxed enough. I couldn't tell you what it was like during the evening but certainly, my overall impression of this place was that it was a nice afternoon pit stop en route to the castle or Grassmarket. read more

A great pub ... but at its best when not too busy. Sells some really nice beers. My favourite visit was at lunch time on Year's Eve when only me and my friend were in there. We stayed for three pints as a pre-New Year celebration and then went our separate ways to spend New Year with our respective friends and families. read more

I do like the Blazer, I do. This was almost a three, and I did swither over the star section for a while, but I've had so much good banter here that there must be something about it that encourages good times and merriment, so at a four it will stay. The "something about it" is probably the fact it sells alcohol at relatively inexpensive prices which is always going to put a smile on my face, but we can pretend it's something altogether different. It's got that all-important "character" malarkey that people look for in a proper, old pub...it's seen some things, it could tell some tales. I actually think there's some interesting history to it, but I'm not in the know, so I won't attempt to blether on about that aspect. I suppose I pondered giving it a three because I don't ever feel that I'm 100% comfy lounging about in the wooden seating (nothing wrong with wooden seating, mind), but d'you know what, I can do my pampered pub reclining elsewhere...this is a pub for getting down to no nonsense drinking business. The very decent elements of the Blue Blazer are that it serves up quality rum, ales and whiskies, and you get a good mix of people, from students to regulars to anyone just passing to tourists, and that's quite refreshing and just a bit more interesting, as a ton of pubs in Edinburgh struggle to achieve that happy brew of clientele. read more

The Blue Blazer is the best sort of traditional pub, one where there is an excellent selection of drinks and bar staff who know about them. There is a fine selection of real ale, various qualities of lager (often served in a glass fresh from the freezer) and a great selection of spirits. For whisky, bourbon, gin or vodka you will get a good level of choice and then there is the rum... Oh my, there are around 70 different rums and having sampled a few I haven't found one I didn't like. You make your own atmosphere and it can sometimes be busy but if you enjoy a decent drink in a good bar give the Blue Blazer a shot. read more

If you like rum, head here. Probably one of the best selections of rum in Edinburgh. Couple that with the ales, whiskeys and various other drinks available and this place is a gem. A bit intimidating from the outside, and possibly from the inside too, as the slight claustrophobic feeling is difficult to escape, particularly in the back room. Despite that there's always a friendly crowd and a fair bit of banter, particularly form the staff who seem to love the odd chat. read more

Nestled beneath the castle, halfway between Lothian Rd and the Grassmarket, this excellent traditional pub is always my number one choice when I'm in that part of town. When your other choices are Lothian Rd drinking barns or strip clubs and you don't want to walk further to get to a decent boozer, this is a life saver. In fact, that's unfair. I even go out of my way to come here as I really like the atmosphere. At least five real ales on the go, with Tradewinds always offered as a standby, alongside the usual booze options. Nice wooden interior, just the right side of scruffy, with a lively mix of punters of all ages, from your old school real ale or whisky drinker to young people after work or on a night out. It can get very busy after work but generally thins out a bit later as people move on in search of other diversion. The main room has two doors which helps when it's busy, and the back room offers extra space although you can sometimes get trapped in there and suddenly find it's a long way to the bar. But it makes it cosy and convivial on a cold winter night. Toilets are downstairs and are a bit shabby but then this is a traditional boozer so you can't hold that against it. Always has good toilet graffiti too, which helps. From the witty to the poignant. I found two of my favourites in here: From the plaintiveness of "I'm waiting for my life to begin" to the perfectly phrased "The joke is in your hand." Maybe that confirms (or not, depending on your view!) what I said about the character of this place. Just the right combination of scruffy, lively, comfortable and cosy. read more

The Blue Blazer is quite a traditional pub that is situated near the strip clubs of the West Port. However, despite its proximity to the sleaze of this area it manages to retain an air of civility and is generally a nice place to drink. The bar is very beautiful (wooden and old fashioned) and stocks a wide choice of whisky and real ales. This pub's speciality is rum though, and if you fancy trying one from their large selection ask the bar man's advice and he'll point you in the right direction. The prices here are not particularly cheap, but this manages to keep the students over the road in The Chanter (every cloud has a silver lining...). If you're looking for a nice traditional pub to drop into after a show at the Lyceum or Usher Hall, the Blue Blazer is perfectly located. read more

Blue Blazer - Pubs Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

The Blue Blazer was the second stop for me on a pub crawl, on which my friend decided to take us to one of the dodgiest areas in Edinburgh. The Blue Blazer didn't fill me with hope if I'm honest. I have had my fill of generic, old man style pubs in Edinburgh, and this one was set to be more of the same. Inside, my expectations were confirmed and the place was typically clad in dark woods and leather. However, we decided to give it a go and went in for a quick drink. My rum and Coke wasn't the most expensive I had on the crawl, but it was quite dear all the same. We had one each then left, as we just hadn't warmed to the place, although it was really packed with folk who were off their rockers at 7pm. Must have been a football day or something, and the atmosphere was very blokey, so we went. Ideal for a swift half, but not much else really. read more

Blue Blazer - Pubs Near Me - Edinburgh, EDH

The Blue Blazer is situated half way between the Grassmarket and Lothian Road and is a well known and an often trodden path for many an Edinburgh local and as such is eternally busy. Inside traditional its decor remains wooden floors, pews and prints of the citys past. The bar is probably best known for it's unriavalled range of Single Malt Whiskies, Varied Rums (&a regular rum club) and Real Cask Ales and is a true Edinburgh institution. The festival can see the bar become overrun by visitors to the city, much to the dusmay of regulars. Ess read more

There are very few pubs in Edinburgh, bar the newly established Brau Haus around the corner, which will offer the friendliness and quality of product on offer as The Blue Blazer. Unlike it's Victoria Street rival, The Blue Blazer welcomes all comers regardless of them ordering a pint of Miller or asking for 'a pint of the best guest ale and malt of the moment'. Regulars are well used to the 'cool crowd' that drift down from the Edinburgh College of Art, but the Blue Blazer is rarely bereft of warm friendly atmosphere which balances a pre-club-pub and one-for-the-road last stop like no other. read more

The Blue Blazer is a very warm, welcoming local pub with a friendly atmosphere and a good selection of ales. There are always plenty of seats, and even when the bar is busy, there's always somewhere to squeeze in and sit down. In fact, the Blue Blazer is pretty much always buzzing with people, and there is usually a fun atmosphere. Occasionally, they host live music events too. All in all, a nice friendly pub with good prices and very comfy seats! read more

Blue Blazer is a very welcoming pub with a fantastic range of drinks on offer, great guest ales and a even better range of spirits. Cider is served in glasses that are kept in the freezer which makes it all the more enjoyable! Good mix of customers, locals, students, visitors. Have no problem of going into this bar myself to have a sneaky pint or meet friends. It's in a great place for a variety of great places to eat and cultural expeditions. A must visit for any trip to edinburgh. read more

The Blue Blazer is a really great pub, excellent selection of real ales and various other lovely boozes, really warm friendly atmosphere too. Definitely worth a look in. read more

Now, whilst this could be a great little pub, nice decor and ambience, good beers etc., we encountered one little problem whilst visiting on a stag do this weekend. We were a group of twelve 40 something blokes on a stag do. Not dressed up at all, and when we attended early on the Friday we encountered no problems, before heading off elsewhere for a bite to eat. On returning about 11pm we were sitting in the back snug, and bumped into a group of Irish girsl on a hen do. One was a beautiful singer and sang a couple of songs before the bar staff said "no singing" allowed in the pub. For a group from Wales this was a bit of a shock as never being asked to stop singing in a pub before. We're not talking football chants here but the talking old classics ... the rowdiest was Deliliah! I wondered whether this is connected to do with the whole "football" issue with the standard "no football colours" notice on the front of the bar? Anyway, the rest of the snug, certainly seemed to be enjoying some civilised singing and joining in, so not aware of any complaints! The young bar staff were adamant we could not sing and refused to serve us immediately, so back to the Point bar it was! read more

I ended up at the Blue Blazer due to the recommendation of a co-worker and a cabby. The last night I was in Edinburgh I visited this establishment, despite staying at the hotel just down the road. When I walked in I knew I had entered a hidden gem. This pub is exactly what I envision when I think of a Scottish bar. There isn't a lot of room, and the furniture is well worn, but the brews are cold and the scotch is stocked. Great establishment with friendly clientele. read more

Stayed at a hotel around the corner, and the manager recommended this pub. Unpretentious, with mostly locals and an open mic session in the back room. We had a few rounds and, as a tourist, I almost felt like I was intruding. But people were chatty, they have a great selection of whiskies, and I loved the atmosphere. read more

I really want to give the Blue Blazer five stars, but it didn't serve food. That's its only fault though! This is an amazingly comfortable pub, with great beer and friendly staff and patrons. Friends and I went for lunch, discovered that they had no food, but were so impressed with the atmosphere and the friendliness of the staff and patrons that we knew we'd be back later, returning for a 'happy hour' that lasted far more than that. To me, this is what a 'local' should be . . . although at least minimal food could be useful. read more

The Blue Blazer is a lovely little bar with a good range of real ales and a huge selection of bourbons - the most I've seen in Edinburgh. Staff are very quick to serve, and very pleasant. There's a little back room where they have live folk music regularly. The main room has a cosy fire, which is lovely in the winter. It can get very busy in the evenings, though it has a great atmosphere regardless. It's very nice on a weekday afternoon, when it's usually quiet. read more

This is a small place, and it is always packed when I walk by. I met some friends after work; their work, my classes. The bartenders were friendly and flirty, which is always fun. Some patrons were chatty, again, fun. The crowd was mostly twenties-thirties, but with a laid back air. Nothing fancy here. Which was fine. It was just too crowded on a Wednesday at 8pm. I was spilled on, shoved a bit, not really a relaxing drinking experience. But if I walk by sometime, and it's not packed, I'd stop in. Cool people hang here. read more

Very good traditional corner pub just below the castle short walk from Grass market . Open fire in bar not commercial . Good range of real ale and whiskey . Comfy pub seating . Will definitely be on my Edinburgh pub crawl list . If had more traditional features or a couple of more ales would be a five star . read more

Great pub with an awesome selection of drinks on offer. Tends to get quite busy Fridays/Saturdays and so if you are looking for a seat then you probably want to be looking elsewhere. read more

One of Edinburgh's best pubs with a friendly atmosphere and staff, old-style interior, great selection of beer (including many guest ales), whisky and rum. It is usually busy but so it should be, this is a proper pub in an area with a dearth of good boozers. read more

An excellent traditional pub always with a good selection of Scottish ales and whiskies. The bar staff are also friendly and knowledgable about what they sell. Always a good atmosphere created by a mixed age group. Can recommend the toasties and coffee also! read more

lots of choice but could be better quality

Nice little pub just of Bread Street which sells a good selection of real ales and whisky. The pub has got a warm friendly feel, I've only been in a couple of times but you get the feeling that pub a loyal band of customers, it a nice little pubs and definately one of the best in that area of town. read more