Beluga - presented by Edinburgh Pub Guide

30a Chamber St
OLD TOWN, Edinburgh
EH1

0131 6244545

URL: www.beluga-edinburgh.com/

Number of Reviews: 11

Average Rating: 2.1

Average Ambience: 2.3

Average Value 1.5

Average Food & Drink 2.0

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Review By: gazza

Title: beluga

Review Date: 2007-02-21 16:39:51

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 2

This place has a lot of drawbacks as other reviewers have pointed out - and i wouldnt eat here for sure.
But it is the only place in town ive seen that do lowenbrau on tap - and its a good pint too (it should be at the price)

Review By: Scalpelblade

Title: Don't Even Think About It!

Review Date: 2007-01-26 00:33:21

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

If you enjoy pretentious kiddie's nights and have an IQ which matches the address then you will feel at home. Being deaf also helps. If you are an adult, don't even think about it. There is a great Scottish term which describes the 'food' on offer - shite!

Review By: Chiquita

Title: Bring loadsa dosh!!

Review Date: 2007-01-14 20:53:30

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 2

Beluga is a very sexy, dark, stylish bar - but pretty expensive & is often full of posers!

Review By: Fat Daniel

Title: Far from Cheap

Review Date: 2006-09-29 15:54:26

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: Not Rated Yet

If you think this pub is not expensive, then you have a heathly bank balance. Like most pubs in Edinburgh, they are way to expensive. I can drink cheaper in London! 3 pints are getting closer to £10 quid every year. I say 4 pints for a £10 is value for money without a promotion. When I go out with friends it which pub is the cheapest & thats usually one full of old men. Not going see any ladies under 60 in there!

Review By: C

Title: Horrible place

Review Date: 2006-01-14 18:26:14

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

Far far to busy, smokey, claustrophobic, horrendously loud music and a poor beer selection make Beluga one of the most awful pubs I've ever been in. Avoid!

Review By: lighthouse8

Title: Brilliant

Review Date: 2006-01-14 14:03:25

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 4

Super atmosphere, great food and drinks plus a very attentive staff -- we love it at Belugas. Definitely one of our most favorite stops in Edinburgh!

Review By: kazzle

Title: Thumbs up!

Review Date: 2006-01-13 19:12:08

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 4

Beluga is a great place, not too expensive - particularly with snapfax/student offers!! For dining you have to ask to sit upstairs - the food is tasty and good value, and for drinking downstairs is usually rammed and pretty loud so pretty hard to get a seat but again good value and good atmosphere!

Review By: JH

Title: Hugely disappointing!

Review Date: 2005-08-29 00:48:20

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

Slow service, being completely ignored by staff. Took a good half hour before the soggy greasy starter arrived. Another half hour of being ignored watching other tables who arrived after us get their mains courses. When it finally came after having to get a waitress to check where it was, the fries were cold, the steak was cold, the bun for the steak sandwich was charred black and an attempt had been made to cover over the burnt bits with a tomatoey type sauce which didn't belong in the meal! The peppercorn sauce was congealed and had a skin on it. Drinks were overpriced. From sitting down to getting the main course was over an hour, and even after all that it still took 10 minutes to get our bloody bill. Needless to say we didn't eat the food, paid for our drinks and left, likely never to return.

Review By: Secret Squirrel

Title: Great Service

Review Date: 2005-06-24 09:24:47

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 5

I may be biased as I have only been here during the day, however the staff are very friendly and give great, quick service. Good value for money.

Review By: DCS

Title: Expensive and crowded

Review Date: 2005-04-12 14:54:35

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: 3

This modern-decor pub, with high priced drinks, very crowded on weekends and loud music- makes it an overall uncomfortable experience.

Review By: The Man Who...

Title: Weeping and Whaling

Review Date: 2004-02-18 22:31:46

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

God, where do I start? Is it the overripe pretentiousness of the place? The high-concept idiocy, submerging function in favour of flash? Perhaps it's the endless, endless tiles? Or the unremitting noise, which echoes unceasingly, making conversation unimagineable? Maybe it's the way that its deafening, yet somehow tomb-like, ambience can suck the life out of the liveliest party? Or maybe it's just the utter, maddening naffness of concept pubs? In 20 years' time, people will look at pictures of places like this and shake their heads. Of course, what makes this nonsense inexcusable is that it is killing proper, grown-up pubs. Leaving aside the dives, this is without doubt the worst drinking establishment I have ever visited.

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This place has a lot of drawbacks as other reviewers have pointed out - and i wouldnt eat here for sure. But it is the only place in town ive seen that do lowenbrau on tap - and its a good pint too (it should be at the price)

If you enjoy pretentious kiddie's nights and have an IQ which matches the address then you will feel at home. Being deaf also helps. If you are an adult, don't even think about it. There is a great Scottish term which describes the 'food' on offer - shite!

Beluga is a very sexy, dark, stylish bar - but pretty expensive & is often full of posers!

Far far to busy, smokey, claustrophobic, horrendously loud music and a poor beer selection make Beluga one of the most awful pubs I've ever been in. Avoid!

Super atmosphere, great food and drinks plus a very attentive staff -- we love it at Belugas. Definitely one of our most favorite stops in Edinburgh!

Beluga is a great place, not too expensive - particularly with snapfax/student offers!! For dining you have to ask to sit upstairs - the food is tasty and good value, and for drinking downstairs is usually rammed and pretty loud so pretty hard to get a seat but again good value and good atmosphere!

I may be biased as I have only been here during the day, however the staff are very friendly and give great, quick service. Good value for money.

This modern-decor pub, with high priced drinks, very crowded on weekends and loud music- makes it an overall uncomfortable experience.

This place has a lot of drawbacks as other reviewers have pointed out - and i wouldnt eat here for sure.
But it is the only place in town ive seen that do lowenbrau on tap - and its a good pint too (it should be at the price)