Jekyll and Hyde - presented by Edinburgh Pub Guide

112 Hanover St
NEW TOWN, Edinburgh
EH2

0131 2252022

URL: www.eeriepubco.com/

Picture of the pub: Jekyll and Hyde,Edinburgh

Number of Reviews: 19

Average Rating: 3.2

Average Ambience: 3.4

Average Value 2.9

Average Food & Drink 3.2

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Review By: Sue

Title: Worst night ever..!!

Review Date: 2007-09-21 13:03:41

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 1

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: 1

Think this place needs a bit of a refurb - looks dated and every bit its ten or so years! Slow service, uninviting, unfriendly staff made for a disappointing evening. I thoroughly do not recommend this pub.

Review By: morgenwinds

Title: It's been a year, but I still love the place

Review Date: 2007-09-11 05:50:03

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: Not Rated Yet

Food & Drink Rating: 4

I'm unaccustomed to hokey themed pubs, so I loved this one. The theme is consistent throughout, the ambience beats out a morgue-themed (actually former morgue) pub in Seattle by far, and the staff are friendly. Earlier in the evening is less crowded; later on it gets noisy.

As for the drinks named after the 7 deadly sins, most are pretty good, but most would advise against wrath.

Review By: Gothic princess

Title: Dodgy bar staff...

Review Date: 2007-07-31 13:50:43

Overall Rating: 1

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 4

Can't we just go into a pub without being hassled by sleazy, creepy bar staff!? It would be okay if there was any decent chat-up lines involved...

The pub is great though!

Review By: maria

Title: very good! brilliant!

Review Date: 2007-07-28 19:19:51

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

the pub is very nice, nice decorations, really feels like in dr.jekyll's house with all the potions and skulls:) the staff is friendly and helpful (while looking for toilets), the food is FABULOUS, great portions, they have good offers (2 for 8). It just might take little longer when busy. Absolutely RECOMMEND to anybody

Review By: aw

Title: just bad and not in a good way

Review Date: 2007-06-30 12:43:05

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

slack staff, service and cheesy music have gone to make what was once a fine bar, a bar woth avoiding

Review By: Rhi

Title: Canadians LOVE it

Review Date: 2007-06-12 17:50:42

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

I was in the pub with 17 other Canadians travelling in Edinburgh for an international work experience. We decided to stop in ( after walking by it several times) and I am greatful that we did. We had such a great time that We visited several more times before our trip ended. The staff were great ( ;) Hayden and Adam) and the food was great. Overall it was an amazing place to visit and will come back to Edinburgh to visit it again.

Review By: miffed customer

Title: Evil Bar staff!!

Review Date: 2007-06-02 10:24:14

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 2

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: Not Rated Yet

I travelled from the West with friends to this pub which had been recommended. The pub itself is great. Well decorated in the gothis theme. Its the bar staff that are the problem. Very off-handish. I stood at the side of the bar for well over 5 mins only to be told, (after ordering a pint), that i would have to stand at the front of the bar! When I moved round, I then had to stand for another 5 mins til I got served. There was no eye contact when I eventually got served and no please or thank you. Having worked in Customer Service for many years all I can say is thank goodness that I wasnt a Secret shopper for any brewery!

Review By: Markie Mark

Title: Last Orders just Crypt Up !

Review Date: 2006-10-09 10:53:27

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 4

Visited this pub after seeing ratings on the web and recommendations by friends. First impressions were the pub was a bit small, but the atmosphere and decor of the pub were great. Drinks and cocktails were reasonable, but the downstairs bar was not open when I was there.
Novel idea with the toilets, but no indications to which ones are mail or female.

Review By: elainemarie

Title: passed it's sell-by date

Review Date: 2006-05-06 02:21:29

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

This is a dark dingy temed bar. Well passed it's sell-by date. It needs brightend up. Toilets downstairs are way to small

Review By: Logan

Title: Great

Review Date: 2006-03-01 13:43:37

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

I love this pub and want to take people there. Loved the cheap themed cocktails. Didn't experience trying to find the toilets but could make out the door in the wall. Next time, for sure.

Review By: Katie

Title: Was great!

Review Date: 2006-02-20 21:22:21

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: Not Rated Yet

I went there last Thursday was great nearly went in the wrong toilets mind!! The band were great too we all had great fun!

Review By: pam humble

Title: have a laugh !!

Review Date: 2006-01-29 07:00:10

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 4

i like this pub, it's a bit of fun.. you can spend hours looking at all the stuff they've got on the walls !! the horror theamed cocktails are excellent and if you don't mind standing at the bar you can watch a classic horror movie (brain dead anyone ??!!) on the tv ! and yes watching people tying to find the hidden toilets is just a tad entertaining !

Review By: Bin There Done That

Title: Disney Pub

Review Date: 2006-01-26 16:06:13

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 1

Value Rating: 2

Food & Drink Rating: 3

Whats the point of making a pub a pretend crypt or whatever, sadly just a pub done in black paint with a bit of theatrical dressing

Review By: Me

Title: Great place

Review Date: 2005-09-10 11:00:20

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 3

Great pub the hidden toilets are exellent

Review By: Bliss

Title: Watch out for the loos!

Review Date: 2005-08-19 13:46:33

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: Not Rated Yet

The great atmosphere and tongue-in-cheek attitude turned what could have beena bit of a rubbishy theme bar into something really cool and fun. The drinks are pretty standard, although there are a few horror-themed shots. In my experience though, drink enough of anything and it becomes a horrorshow! Didn't eat there, but for a lateish night drink, recommended. And, how can watching people not be able to find the hidden toilets NOT be fun?

Review By: Wull

Title: Jazz at jeks

Review Date: 2005-01-02 13:03:04

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Looking forward to the jazz early January in the eerie cellar bar. Ian and Dominic are brill lunchtime jazz rules

Review By: RLS

Title: Ok

Review Date: 2003-12-20 23:48:37

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 2

As theme bars go this one is ok. Watch out for the hidden toilets.

Review By: Judith Chalmers

Title: Inferno

Review Date: 2003-12-02 12:49:27

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 3

Keith, The fire wasn't that bad. (The flames, The flames...)

Review By: Keith Flint

Title: Fire Fire Fire

Review Date: 2003-11-10 10:31:12

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 3

Warning candles in this pub!!

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Think this place needs a bit of a refurb - looks dated and every bit its ten or so years! Slow service, uninviting, unfriendly staff made for a disappointing evening. I thoroughly do not recommend this pub.

Can't we just go into a pub without being hassled by sleazy, creepy bar staff!? It would be okay if there was any decent chat-up lines involved... The pub is great though!

slack staff, service and cheesy music have gone to make what was once a fine bar, a bar woth avoiding

This is a dark dingy temed bar. Well passed it's sell-by date. It needs brightend up. Toilets downstairs are way to small

I love this pub and want to take people there. Loved the cheap themed cocktails. Didn't experience trying to find the toilets but could make out the door in the wall. Next time, for sure.

I went there last Thursday was great nearly went in the wrong toilets mind!! The band were great too we all had great fun!

Whats the point of making a pub a pretend crypt or whatever, sadly just a pub done in black paint with a bit of theatrical dressing

Great pub the hidden toilets are exellent

Looking forward to the jazz early January in the eerie cellar bar. Ian and Dominic are brill lunchtime jazz rules

As theme bars go this one is ok. Watch out for the hidden toilets.

Keith, The fire wasn't that bad. (The flames, The flames...)

Warning candles in this pub!!

Can't we just go into a pub without being hassled by sleazy, creepy bar staff!? It would be okay if there was any decent chat-up lines involved...

The pub is great though!