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    Nether Abbey Hotel

    4.0 (1 review)
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    Ship Inn - My amazing fish & chip. Half order, btw

    Ship Inn

    4.3(13 reviews)
    0.7 mi
    ££

    Scottish Pub in a cool little town. This place was exactly what I was looking for after a morning…read morespent checking out Tantallon Castle and a 3 mile walk back to town. The Fisherman Pie, which was Haddock, Smoked Haddock and Salmon in a Creamy Leek & Chive Sauce, topped with Mash Potato and Isle of mull Cheddar, was delicious. Even the Seasonal Vegetables, which were served with the pie was really good. On top of that, they had a nice long list of ciders to select from and they had the Kopparberg Strawberry & Lime, which is one of my favorites.

    From the outside the Ship Inn looks like a local bar on the "welcoming" side of the scale as…read moreopposed to the "Tourists Beware" side. On entering it is a spacious and cosy looking bar that is definitely suited for tourists with a collection of beer mats almost being used as wallpaper to cover most of the free space behind the bar, some of which I had never even heard of! The decor and feel to the sitting area itself is traditional with a modern fusion, little tweaks like old spirit bottles (JD mainly) being used as candle holders are excellent to the vibe of the place and really let you settle happily in to one of the booths and take the surroundings in. We went in here because my better half was feeling hungry (I was saving myself for the North Berwick Fry which is just next door to the Ship Inn, in hindsight I should have eaten here) and decided to pop in here for a drink & a bit of lunch/dinner, we definitely weren't disappointed. A chicken and bacon burger was ordered and a chicken and bacon burger it was. Where the chicken that this chicken breast came from I don't know but it was definitely doing some serious weightlifting and bulking up. It was MASSIVE, in all it's chickeny beauty I found it hard to resist taking a huge bite out of the burger. Long stoy short, I ended up taking a huge bite out of the burger. The chicken was beautifully juicy for general pub grub and the bacon was lovely, sweet but slightly salted which gelled all the flavours of the breaded chicken and the toasted roll together. Thinking about it now, I'm getting hungry again. Every time I have a pub burger, the side salad always lets it down, every time, it's like the bars expect people not to eat it, but not this bar. The salad was crisp and fresh, served up with a deliciously sweet vinaigrette that was perfect for dipping a wee bit of the roll in. The spirit measures were 35ml and the guest ales on offer covered breweries such as Innis & Gunn and The Inveralmond Brewery (who do beers such as Lia Fail and Ossian) which justified the bar being about 60-70p more expensive than the others we visited.

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    Ship Inn - View from my table.

    View from my table.

    Ship Inn - Cool Scottish Pub in North Berwick.

    Cool Scottish Pub in North Berwick.

    Ship Inn - The bar with a massive collection  of beer mats.

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    The Auld House - Wonderful looking bar.

    The Auld House

    2.7(3 reviews)
    0.6 mi

    It's a local pub and a lot of locals come in here. They do not serve food but that's kind of not…read morethe point. Alcohol is served. Dogs are regulars and just for that I think it's pretty cool. Nice old building and atmosphere.

    As Chris F. pointed out, this is definitely a pub of two sides. Fortunately I went to the right and…read moresat in the area that was in view of the bar, a very classic looking pub with a presence. The majority of the pub seems to be held up with varnished wood which seems to be the lay of the land for most of North Berwick (definitely not a bad thing for any locals reading this) The tables were also wooden paired up with tan leather couches, making this feel like an old "gentlemen only" pub, which I suppose was the rule for most pubs years ago but the Auld House definitely seems to have held on to these traits a little more robustly. There is a full bar available, very well laid out with beers such as Belhaven Black stout and what seems to be the North Berwick man's favourite pint, McEwan's 70 shilling. My pint was served beautifully, nice, clean and at a nice temperature for a real beer. There is only one thing I can fault this bar on. As we entered the pub we were served by a very friendly female who was very pleasant, half way through our visit a gentleman came in with a child who turned out to be the females partner, without a word they both seemed to have swapped shifts, the female pulling a pint straight away and the gent walking behind the bar with the child on one arm. Whenever a customer wasn't being served he seemed to be supping at a pint of beer himself, which I found very strange. Other than this one thing that wasn't necessarily a problem for any of the punters as the child turned out to be a lovely and very interactive little girl who was all smiles and laughs.

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    The Auld House - Pub time!

    Pub time!

    The Auld House - Beautiful head

    Beautiful head

    The Auld House - Doggy friends being made

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    Doggy friends being made

    Nether Abbey Hotel - pubs - Updated May 2026

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