Dropkick Murphy's is a crazy fun Irish bar in the lower Cowgate district in Edinburgh. There's live music and a rowdy crowd and plenty to drink. What more do you need? We showed up for a few drinks and really enjoyed the great live music by Dennis Kennedy DelBhoy. He does a great job entertaining the crowds and gets us involved. The dance floor is pretty large and the staff were plentiful and attentive. A fun time overall. read more

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They were out of at least8 items on the menu, including fries. We waiting to be seated and the took us back to a table for two the was squished. After telling us all that was not available we left. read more

Service is very unsatisfactory. It is a crowded sticky pub that is messy and filled with rude service. I did not feel comfortable or safe. It is not worth the cover charge or time. It is not professional and I do not recommend at all. If you're drunk and young with low standards, go for it. If you care about a good time, this is not the place for you. read more

Such a pleasure to visit during the Fringe festival. There was so much going on all at once. It is a happy, joyous time to be in Edinburg.

I stumbled in here in a drunken haze one Monday evening. Its quite a large, sprawling bar which is nice enough. As the name suggests it is an Irish bar and popular with the many Irish in Edinburgh. Its located on a side street off the Grassmarket, I probably couldn't find it sober to be honest. I like the quirky little barrels for tables and such like. My poor friend and I had been in a cheap little bar on the Cowgate where it was a pound a drink (my round, score!). Then we came in here and it was his round, unlucky for him. Vodka and coke and JD and coke came to just over £6. Poor guy was in shock! So a little expensive. But its quite fun and it has a good atmosphere with friendly bar staff. For future reference they do a student night on Wednesday, so go then for the cheap drinks! read more

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Drop Kick Murphy's isn't the easiest to find and indeed even with perfect directions you'll be sceptical. It is to be found at the end of a side road just after the end of the bridge above your head. This entry road alone conjures up a spectacular atmosphere - it's almost like the movies where the best clubs are down some shady side street. This street itself is perfectly safe, but it does do its job in creating a fabulous mood - all it lacks is a haze of mist for you to navigate through on your way to the door. Once inside the first thing you'll notice is a vast amount of sporting memorabilia - mostly Irish with a few exception such as a Sunderland shirt above the bar - perhaps donated by Anthony Stokes, but who knows how this shirt came to end up in this collection. Thanks to its location this pub has managed to maintain a high proportion of Irish patrons and the atmosphere remains distinctly Irish. Add to this the occasional live music and along with Malones you have one of the best Irish pubs in Edinburgh. read more

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This was our go to pub after all the other pubs closed. This one stays open the latest. Until 3 AM. Good mixture of people with the majority being young university kids. Bar staff were nice and had a great chat with the manager read more

Stumbled (quite literally) into this beauty a few weeks ago while visiting Edinburgh. A group of us was bouncing around town trying to find a bar that was staying open to watch the NFL playoff games (Seattle/SF wasn't going to end until 3am). The bar itself is pretty nice, I mean, it's a bar. Large on the inside, lots of booths, TVs for the game. Obviously it wasn't packed as this was late night Sunday, but I can see this place filling up on weeknights. The staff was really what made the place though. Such cool guys... Marty and Cian were awesome. I found people to be generally pretty nice in Scotland, but bartenders usually make or break a bar and I can't say enough about these guys. Absolute all stars. The bar is a bit off the beaten path and has a cool location under a bridge so if you're looking to get off the Royal Mile or out of Grassmarket (which you should), 100% pay a visit to Dropkicks, you'll be happy you did- and tell the guys Brian from Seattle said hi, they may hook you up with a Bloody Mary shot! read more

Dropkick's would be almost the perfect late night music place if it weren't for the price. They have a good set up, with lots of open space, some huge booths and a stage at the far end. The interior is under George IV bridge so has a cool underground feel to it. As well as this they always have good bands on, nothing too original, all kinda Irishy / Folk / Rock covers but they are good fun, either to chill out to and have a chat, or to have a shimmy when it gets a bit more upbeat. Make sure to get there early (about half 12 / 1ish) because although it is pretty dead then, it gets full unbelievably quickly. From an Irish bar you expect slightly overpriced drinks, Dropkicks is really bad. Expect to pay almost £4 a pint, and they are pretty average, including the Guinness which is not as good as you'd expect. Spirits and mixers are pricey too, and whilst I haven't had the wine, I would be surprised if that bucked the trend. Apart from that it's a good place to go for a night out, or after other bars have kicked out (it's open until 3) especially if you fancy a bit of live music. read more

Everytime I attend a night out at this Irish public house, it is absolutely heaving with crazy, debaucherous people, dancing wildly and sloshing pints over every available surface. Pretty much the kind of thing I like. There's a certain charm to getting stuck to the dance floor because the layer of alcohol beneath your feet is as thick as tar. There are often live bands playing at the weekend as well, which is good craic. Everyone that comes here is always up for fun times and there's not a hint of pretentiousness about it, so you can make very little effort with your appearance, and no one will really care. But that could be because they've had too much Guinness and aren't able to distinguish who their friends are, let alone whether some random person has bothered to put mascara on or not. What haunts me whenever I come here is Dropkick Murphy's previous life as a bar/club called Berties. They were some of the best days of my young life, I mean seriously good days, and I can't help but feel wistful whenever I'm here when I think about the Wednesday nights when all drinks were 50p, and sweat ran down the cave like walls. Happy times. Now the decor has been brightened up, but the stairs down to the toilets are still lethal, so if you've had a few, or you're wearing giant stilettos, creep down carefully, or you could end up in an embarrassing and no doubt painful tumbling situation. read more

Dropkicks is open late, often has fun live music, and is almost always heaving, these things make it a great student bar. However, every time I've come here since I was a student, I feel like Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon - I'm too old for this shit. As I said, it's heaving. It's like, impossible to walk across the room without getting shoved, stepped on, spilled on, heaving. Want to buy a pint? Forget it. It will take 20 minutes to get served and when you DO get your drink, some drunken punter will bump into you and spill most of it. Then, when you try to go to the toilets to clean up you are faced with a long stairwell down (stairs + heels + alcohol = injuries) to a dungeon where at least one toilet doesn't work, another doesn't lock, and another doesn't have a toilet seat or tp. These things didn't bother me when I was a student and looking to have a few drinks too many and find a cute boy to snog (I seem to recall these were a dime a dozen here, but that may have been the drinks talking). Now that I'm old and loved up, I don't come here. I'm just too old for that shit. read more

If you like your bars pseudo-Irish, busy almost every night of the week and with too small a dance-floor then this is the place for you. Tolerable up till about midnight but then more often that not uncomfortably busy which makes both getting to the bar and to the toilets a major job of work .They also insist on having covers acts on just when the piped music is getting good. £2 to get in on Fridays & Saturdays, Cloak-room £1. read more

if you asked me to point you in the direction of Dropkick Murphy's, I dont think I could - its so well hidden. In fact, on the night I spent my evening here, i couldnt remember getting here, let alone leaving. I do remember it being a hell of a night though. It's an Irish pub effectivly - but taken to extreme levels. The atmosphere is that of a roudy party, and there is so much drink around the place I'm suprised anybody ever makes it to the rather large dance floor. But they do, and unless you are prepared to throw yourself into the dancing, I'd step well back because you might get hurt. It seems that everybody in here is here for a bloody good laugh, a lot of drink and a furious dance - so over all the whole place has an amazing energy that I'm yet to come across anywhere else. Dropkick Murphy's can get a little expensive however, and as its always full dont expect a quiet chat and a seat. read more

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A bit boring after you've been a couple of times. A fairly predictable Irish theme pub, certainly not the worst though. More of student haunt but it's a fairly good natured atmosphere inside with people dancing like no one is looking. Bouncer refused to let me in last time though without giving me any reason read more

Irish theme great place to go to watch GAA matches. I don't really know about it as a late night venue but like everywhere in the Grassmarket area I am sure it is a stag / hen magnet. Good mix of people and as everyone have said friendly staff. read more

Dropkick's is pretty much a stereotypical Irish-themed bar. The one thing that sets it apart from other bars in the area is that you have to pay to get in at nights and also that it's open an hour later than everywhere else. You're essentially paying for the slightly extended drinking time; paying money for the privilege of paying more money. Bonus! Seriously though, there's nothing wrong with Dropkick Murphy's, it's just that this bar is generally frequented of a weekend by the kind of rowdy stag-and/or-hen do's that I personally would prefer to avoid. read more

Absolutely disgusting. attitude of doormen stink. My cousin and I were out on Sunday (12/10/2014) After a couple of pints elsewhere we decided to go here. On approach there was a door men plus a few guys in front of us. doorman was friendly to the guys in front the when we got to him he said that he didn't know us and our reply was we don't know you either only here for a few jars his reply to us then was oh your no Irish so your not coming. I have been in this bar before and was generally quite good but I wont be returning now. If I can find the contact details I will be making a complaint... In some sense this was a form of racism and we were not impressed... read more

What a night!!! Was in Edinburgh for the weekend for my friends hen party and ended up in dropkicks after it being recommended to us and had an amazing night! When we first arrived it was quiet and we were a bit concerned but that didnt last long, before we knew it the place was heaving and everyone was in high spirits! I cant fault the staff, they were unbelievably friendly and were up for having a laugh with us. They were all irish which really made the place feel like home for us. Its not like one of those fake irish bars that have a few irish sign posts and that says guinness everywhere you turn. The walls are plaster with county jerseys as far as the eye can see! It was £5 to get in, and just £3 for some of the girls that were students and it didnt matter that their student cards were irish. I have never gotten into a bar with live music that stays open until 3am for such a cheap price, after paying more then twice that to get into a packed club the night before. It wasnt long before the live band started up and they were fantastic. They really got the crowd going, my feet were killing me after all the dancing! The band also took the time to give the hen a shout out. The hen now has massive pressure to provide as much craic as we had in here at her wedding!!!!!!! CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!! read more

Dropkick's is an Irish themed bar tucked away off the side of Candlemaker Row. As you would expect the walls are covered in Irish icons; rugby shirts, road signs and Guinness adverts and the staff are largely Irish. It has a small dance floor, however Dropkick's is not a night-club. It is spacious, with most of the room taken up by 4 or 5 large booths with a big table and seats. Since these are large tables it is common to share them with other patrons, which depending on your view of meeting people, can be a curse or a blessing. The drinks are typically priced for the centre of Edinburgh, with a pint of lager costing around £3. However, the main advantage to Dropkick's is that you can still be served up until around 3am, which means that if you are kicked out of another bar and do not feel ready for bed, or in the mood for a club, you can still have a drink in Dropkick's. In saying that, the music can sometimes be too loud for a conversation with anyone but the person sitting next to you. Also, on the weekend there is a door charge of around £2 after 11 or 12pm. Still, worth it for the craic. read more

Cheap drinks, live music that you can sing along to, busy dancefloor on weekends- perfect for students

open and crowded with a diverse international student-heavy crowd on a monday night? that's not too shabby as far as i'm concerned.

i was a bit biased about the place when it was suggested we go for a drink.It was a very good atmosphere, and it was packed with people as it was almost st patricks day,but despite the high numbers of people everyone is very polite and friendly,full of different nationalities.but trying to find a way to the toilet was a bit difficult. read more

Had a great time here!! Its a little off the main drag so we were a little worried walking up. But once we got inside we had a blast. Large bar with a good number of places to sit. If you want a quiet place to chat and have a drink then go before 11:00. After that the live band comes out and plays for a couple hours. It was pretty crowded but not so much so you couldn't get a drink in a reasonable amount of time. Had such a good time here the first night we went back for another visit the next night. read more