Finnegans Wake - presented by Edinburgh Pub Guide

9b Victoria St
GRASSMARKET, Edinburgh
EH1

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Review By: rois

Title: Love it

Review Date: 2007-09-27 15:43:24

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Best pub in Edinburgh always great craic. Would love to go back when i can afford it

Review By: Eneya

Title: Best of the best

Review Date: 2007-09-03 10:32:12

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 4

Great pub for live music, specially for the Beau Nasties and Rantum Scantum.

Review By: Fred

Title: Allow smoking in this pubs

Review Date: 2007-07-26 11:15:25

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 1

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 2

This pub smells of single fish (a wqest coast expression) You probably couldn't smell it when you were allowed to smoke in pubs. needs agood clean, beer OK but servoice iffy

Review By: barry d

Title: general

Review Date: 2007-06-11 13:18:58

Overall Rating: Not Rated Yet

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we were there sat 10th june 07.
decent music, the beer flows well in here and craic is 90 but dont give the door staff any reason to dislike you. some of them have very short fuses and over the top aggresive nature.(especially the small guy on front door, particularly quick to change!!)
we had a nasty run in with the door staff over stepping out with a pint while on the phone. then all hell broke out due to lack of simple courtesy by the security.
please employ customer friendly security before someone gets hurt..

Review By: Joyce from Holland

Title: Good place to meet people from for example... pho

Review Date: 2007-06-04 11:52:28

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Visited Edinburgh last weekend with my friend. Nice place to meet people from all over the world. Never a dull moment at this pub! Thumbs up to all staff and visitors of this pub.
Met a guy from York, photographer. Didn't catch his name or e-mail...
Great memories is all there's left...

Review By: Virginia

Title: The best memories

Review Date: 2007-06-01 19:03:44

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Love that place!

Review By: Manager

Title: Finnegans manager

Review Date: 2007-05-24 18:47:57

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Finnegans wake is the best irish themed bar in edinburgh!! we have great bands! great guinness and were the only one to sell HARP!!
If you want to have a fun night come in and see us!!

Review By: Dortmund-Supporter

Title: German Boys in Edinburgh

Review Date: 2007-04-13 14:41:21

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 4

every day live music, friendly staff, best pub in edinburgh!!!

Review By: morris

Title: doorstaff

Review Date: 2007-03-06 16:41:54

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 2

Food & Drink Rating: 0

as per previous comments great pub but where do you get your doorstaff not the first time ive been put off

Review By: gazza

Title: FINNEGANS WAKE

Review Date: 2007-03-05 16:59:44

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 2

Food & Drink Rating: 3

This isnt a bad spot really , based in the old pressie hall . Guinness is as good as youll get in town and the regular live music is always lively . People from all over the world come here and you also get a crowd going to concerts next door as well .
the door staff have always been polite in my experience too .
downside is that its very expensive and little chance of a seat but its worth a visit now and again especially if youre with people from abroad.

Review By: Andy

Title: Awful

Review Date: 2007-02-25 18:53:25

Overall Rating: 1

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 2

God, overpriced tacky theme bar. Heaven knows why its so popular. About as Irish as sushi eating kangaroos also...

Review By: dannyboy

Title: A Spanish in a Irish Pub in Scotland

Review Date: 2007-02-22 15:28:30

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

First and last I was in Finnegans Wake was 10 years ago, when I was working near Glasgow and I visited Edinburgh for a weekend in Festival. I enjoyed so much. Now my Finnegans Wake T-shirt it is totally destroyed.
I am comming next august to get another one and to have another great �craig? there.

Review By: Finnegan

Title: The Best

Review Date: 2007-02-12 19:05:08

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Right now the best pub to go to in edinburgh by far!!

Review By: Trish and Ben

Title: I spent all me money on whiskey and beer!!!!

Review Date: 2007-01-28 20:01:24

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 4

Ive spent many a time in this pub whilst on holidays. What strikes me most about Finnegans Wake is the friendliness of the staff. For me and others alike, this sort of attitude is what gives a pub its character. Keep it up lads and I'll see you in June!!!

Review By: Vicki From

Title: Good Pub. Friendly

Review Date: 2006-12-21 14:22:46

Overall Rating: Not Rated Yet

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I really liked it here. Highly Recommended. I will definately go back.

Review By: genuine

Title: soccer supporter

Review Date: 2006-10-08 19:18:45

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phoned 3 times during the week spoke to 3 different staff guaranteed that the ireland vs cyprus was definetely on only to find out it wasnt telivised anywhere was this a cheap ploy to get people in no other bar in the area advertised it including biddys 3 sisters or dropkicks totally disappointed will not be back a lot of unhappy people saturday

Review By: guinness sarah

Title: good night had by all

Review Date: 2006-10-01 19:22:18

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

this pub has everything for all ages friendly bar staff door staff great guinness good bands music for all ages to enjoy

Review By: BOB

Title: Poor Door Staff

Review Date: 2006-09-10 18:27:20

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 4

Great pub.....just a shame about the aggressive door staff!!!

Review By: Kerry

Title: Great atmosphere

Review Date: 2006-09-08 09:30:42

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: Not Rated Yet

There was always a good buzz in finnegans because of the live music. Definitely worth a look!

Review By: henscio

Title: I love you

Review Date: 2006-09-02 14:36:46

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 5

I live for it!!!

Review By: birgithensen@web.de

Title: German Women on holiday

Review Date: 2006-05-24 15:35:25

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

In May we are visit Edinburgh. We´re looking for a nice pub with live music. The Finnegans Wake was a tip. A very good tip. We´ve small talk with the man behind the bar. A crazy polish men with a scottish scarf and a "zylinder". And we meet two loveley scottish men. Gary and Steven.It was a very nice and short time. We are sad, because the time is gone. But we´ll back next year!!!
Excuse me for my bad english, please.

Review By: ozzie

Title: Finnegans wake

Review Date: 2006-03-18 16:49:14

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 3

What can i say, what a pub, door staff, bar staff are just great. this is the pub to for the live music....really gets started when the bands are playing and anything goes. no trouble all great and clean messing......great girls come there!!!!

Review By: google man

Title: great night

Review Date: 2005-04-21 14:35:21

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

i like this place it were i met my wife and i love it!!

Review By: Lars

Title: Wild

Review Date: 2005-03-10 02:31:34

Overall Rating: Not Rated Yet

Ambience Rating: 2

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 4

This was definitely the most upbeat and energetric pub we were at. The band that was playing was quite unique (Bad Moon Rising on fiddle) with their style that kept the place awake and always on their toes. The only thing I could say bad about this place was it looked like every place in the States that had called themselves a Irish Pub. But Finnegans is a place you must check out if you're ready to kick it up a notch!

Review By: Kaytee

Title: This place is terrific!!!

Review Date: 2004-12-13 21:18:36

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 5

I love this place, The music everynight is live and amazing!!! The staff is helpful and aims to please. It get very busy in there which is the only down fall, But the ambiance definately makes up for it.

Review By: Jolly Rodger

Title: Typical Irish Pub

Review Date: 2003-12-04 21:08:39

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 3

This is a fairly typical Irish themed pub although it does have a lot of live music on so I guess it's more Irish than most of the others. It can get fairly busy, especially at the weekends but might be one to avoid if you dislike stag or hen parties.

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Best pub in Edinburgh always great craic. Would love to go back when i can afford it

Great pub for live music, specially for the Beau Nasties and Rantum Scantum.

This pub smells of single fish (a wqest coast expression) You probably couldn't smell it when you were allowed to smoke in pubs. needs agood clean, beer OK but servoice iffy

Visited Edinburgh last weekend with my friend. Nice place to meet people from all over the world. Never a dull moment at this pub! Thumbs up to all staff and visitors of this pub. Met a guy from York, photographer. Didn't catch his name or e-mail... Great memories is all there's left...

Love that place!

Finnegans wake is the best irish themed bar in edinburgh!! we have great bands! great guinness and were the only one to sell HARP!! If you want to have a fun night come in and see us!!

every day live music, friendly staff, best pub in edinburgh!!!

as per previous comments great pub but where do you get your doorstaff not the first time ive been put off

God, overpriced tacky theme bar. Heaven knows why its so popular. About as Irish as sushi eating kangaroos also...

Right now the best pub to go to in edinburgh by far!!

Ive spent many a time in this pub whilst on holidays. What strikes me most about Finnegans Wake is the friendliness of the staff. For me and others alike, this sort of attitude is what gives a pub its character. Keep it up lads and I'll see you in June!!!

I really liked it here. Highly Recommended. I will definately go back.

this pub has everything for all ages friendly bar staff door staff great guinness good bands music for all ages to enjoy

Great pub.....just a shame about the aggressive door staff!!!

There was always a good buzz in finnegans because of the live music. Definitely worth a look!

I live for it!!!

What can i say, what a pub, door staff, bar staff are just great. this is the pub to for the live music....really gets started when the bands are playing and anything goes. no trouble all great and clean messing......great girls come there!!!!

i like this place it were i met my wife and i love it!!

I love this place, The music everynight is live and amazing!!! The staff is helpful and aims to please. It get very busy in there which is the only down fall, But the ambiance definately makes up for it.

This is a fairly typical Irish themed pub although it does have a lot of live music on so I guess it's more Irish than most of the others. It can get fairly busy, especially at the weekends but might be one to avoid if you dislike stag or hen parties.

Visited Edinburgh last weekend with my friend. Nice place to meet people from all over the world. Never a dull moment at this pub! Thumbs up to all staff and visitors of this pub.
Met a guy from York, photographer. Didn't catch his name or e-mail...
Great memories is all there's left...

Finnegans wake is the best irish themed bar in edinburgh!! we have great bands! great guinness and were the only one to sell HARP!!
If you want to have a fun night come in and see us!!