Black Bull (Grassmarket) - presented by Edinburgh Pub Guide

12 Grassmarket
GRASSMARKET, Edinburgh
EH1

0131 2256636

Picture of the pub: Black Bull (Grassmarket),Edinburgh

Number of Reviews: 15

Average Rating: 3.1

Average Ambience: 2.7

Average Value 2.9

Average Food & Drink 3.1

Take a quick vote or add a more in-depth review.....

Add Review

Review By: potter

Title: What has happened!!

Review Date: 2007-11-13 14:50:26

Overall Rating: 1

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: 2

I moved away 2 years ago and came back for a mates stag do and i suggested the black bull, why!! Used to love this place but its totally changed, the crowd is all neds and the staff look miserable, i cant believe this is the same boozer i used to go in wekk in week out and have a great night. Want to recommend it but feel i can't after this weekend

Review By: Lucy

Title: Great Pub

Review Date: 2007-11-13 00:43:23

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Excellent place to be, I go there all the time to hang out with friends and not once have i seen a fight! i think people on this website get a little too melodramatic! Mice. . . i mean really??? Its so so so unlikely!

Review By: L

Title: The Brawl

Review Date: 2007-08-15 13:30:40

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 4

I would just like to state that the Black Bull is a really good night out. Dont let one occasion of drunken footabll louts put you off!

Review By: LOST CUSTOMER

Title: AVOID THIS PUB

Review Date: 2007-08-02 13:33:01

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

SATURDAY 28TH JULY, I WITNESSED THE MOST ATROTIOUS BRAWL IN A PUB I WAS TOLD WAS FRIENDLY AND WELCOMING. ALL I COULD SEE BEING WELCOMED WAS TROUBLE. I STRONGLY ADVISE YOU GO ELSEWHERE ON THE GRASSMARKET, LAST DROP AND BIDDY MULLIGANS SEEM TO ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THE CUSTOMERS WELFARE.

Review By: Injured

Title: Bar Room Blitz

Review Date: 2007-07-31 15:13:48

Overall Rating: Not Rated Yet

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: Not Rated Yet

Food & Drink Rating: Not Rated Yet

As a visitor to Edinburgh, we went to this pub as we had experienced an enjoyable afternoon there listening to a live band, however ... when we returned there in the evening ... the experience was completely different !!! we found ourselves bang in the middle of what can only be described as a mini RIOT. Glasses and Bottles getting throwing from one side of the dance floor to the other. Pretty bad when your night out ends up in the back of Ambulance !!!

Review By: Penguin

Title: Must go

Review Date: 2007-05-16 15:28:44

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Good staff, good food, good atmosphere. Need I say more.

Review By: Strachman

Title: Footie lovers

Review Date: 2007-02-19 14:20:37

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Was extremely impressed to find a pub in Edinburgh that were willing to show a football game alongside the damn six nations rugby which seems to take over the entire city every year. Glad to see that they don't forget the real sport and just cash in!!!!

Review By: marie

Title: I Love the barman

Review Date: 2006-08-24 15:23:41

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Craig the barman is the best u'll ever come across, charming, polite with a cheeky smile. i strongly advise you sample his service.

Review By: maggied

Title: A barn

Review Date: 2006-08-14 23:29:48

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 2

Food & Drink Rating: 2

Staff are sort of ok -drinks sort of ok but it's just a big, gloomy, half-dead place.

Review By: Robert

Title: Excellent!

Review Date: 2006-07-29 02:43:28

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Its excellent there gr8 food and gr8 for jst having a nice chat.

Review By: Bobby

Title: Mice?

Review Date: 2006-04-26 12:44:00

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

Pretty poor and arrogant staff, food was terrible and was that a mouse i saw scuttling under one of the toilet doors? Don't go!

Review By: jenni1982

Title: Kool place

Review Date: 2006-01-19 12:55:00

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 3

I think this pub is a great place to be on a fri and sat nite, there is always something happening there, the only thing i would say is that later on it does get really busy and it does take a while to get a drink and they are quite expensive but if u can put up with that then the atmosphere is great!!!!

Review By: catriona

Title: awful

Review Date: 2006-01-16 22:08:17

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

this is without doubt the worst pub I have ever been in!! After waiting over an hour for food we asked for a refund and the bar girl took an absolute fit!! She swore at my father and told him to go to hell!! This is an absolute disgrace and I felt compelled to write and let others know what kind of establishment this really is! It really is the pits!!!

Review By: Chubbs

Title: Best Pub in the Grassmarket

Review Date: 2005-11-22 20:42:33

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

This pub has everything going for it. Big Premises, excellent DJ friday, Saturday Nights and finally good staff

Review By: Norman

Title: Souless

Review Date: 2004-07-26 14:17:49

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 2

Value Rating: 2

Food & Drink Rating: 3

This is a really souless brewery owned pub. It tends to be full of not so nice people as well (people who wear Burberry).

Link to this Edinburgh Pub Guide page Email Link to this Page Print This Page

Visione.co.uk - Map Based Information Guide for Scotland