Rose Street, EH2 2PR
June’s post season session saw us gathering at The Abbotsford at the posh end of Rose Street. Ok, there’s no posh end on Rose Street but this is further from the stag night favourites than most pubs.
The pub itself has a nice centre bar which makes getting served pretty straightforward. There were a couple of big TV’s on showing footie results but as Scotland had already dispatched the might Faroe Islands there was only a passing interest in the other group results.
There was a range of real ale to compliment the standard fare and some of the more adventurous/misguided partook of a pint of Old Engineers No.12 and Barrel Bottom Original – someone might want to correct me on the actual names of these fine brews.
At some point I’m pretty sure there were, literally, a bunch of pirates at the bar but given the heated debate over Edinburgh’s transport infrastructure, queues at the Forth Bridge and just how good Robert Sloan is despite us only seeing him once it’s hard to separate fact from fiction.
