Tass, The - presented by Edinburgh Pub Guide

1 High St
OLD TOWN, Edinburgh
EH1

0131 5566338

Number of Reviews: 14

Average Rating: 2.9

Average Ambience: 2.9

Average Value 2.2

Average Food & Drink 3.0

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Review By: Jim

Title: Great Pub

Review Date: 2008-01-04 22:03:33

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Had a great afternoon there eating Scottish Angus Beef and chips and local ale. Have no idea what the complaints about tap water are about. We had a great time.

Review By: KingCreosote

Title: Stroll on.

Review Date: 2007-09-12 10:17:45

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

I forgot about the refusal to serve tap water... Unbelievable. So I'll change every rating to zero just to even things up.

Review By: KingCresote

Title: Get yersel tae Greyfriar's

Review Date: 2007-09-12 10:14:31

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 1

Value Rating: 2

Food & Drink Rating: 3

Over priced beer (even considering it's the High St). Bands that love themselves too much and complete lack of atmosphere when they're not playing. Good, wide selection of grub but it's not cheap either. In short a tourist pub for all those visting Bannie Skatland.

Review By: Not impressed

Title: One to Avoid

Review Date: 2007-08-19 17:41:34

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: 2

Spent �25 on three meals on the menu. Chicken burger was awful, small over grilled fillet of chicken on a bun that a knife failed to cut!! Beefburger "the best in Edinburgh" was charred black, dry and inedible!! Salmon platter was fine. Waitress understood our complaint, apologised personally but "at �5.20 per hour" what could she do - I guess not her concern then! The good thing was that getting a table was relatively easy - wonder why?

Review By: Jesse

Title: tight-fisted git

Review Date: 2007-08-15 16:37:52

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 3

My husband and myself went here for dinner and it was ok.The problem was that after spending 70 odd pounds the owner told us that credit cards carry a �1 charge (no matter the bill). Surely this must be told to the customer before ordering or at least a sign somewhere? I also thought that it was illegal to charge a customer more than what the credit card companies charge the businesses eg.1% or so.

Review By: Peter

Title: not bad bar

Review Date: 2007-07-04 17:45:02

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 2

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 4

Not a bad drinking den but could do with a refurb

Review By: marshall

Title: ;)

Review Date: 2007-07-03 10:23:07

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Refusing tap water is rubbish, however not against licensing laws. People should know what they are talking about before they start complaining. yeah it's a tad expensive, but that is normal for edinburgh! sorry guys.....

Review By: Cailean

Title: Great Pub

Review Date: 2007-05-06 23:02:35

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: Not Rated Yet

This is a really friendly pub - the bar staff are great, the prices are very reasonable and the live music is a real treat!

I haven't eaten there yet, but I'm that the food is good.

Review By: colin

Title: great pub

Review Date: 2007-02-20 00:32:45

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 5

1st class ales, whiskies, wines and they serve real food!also unusual selection of quality soft drinks. people complaining about being thirsty but not wanting to buy a drink can surely not complain

Review By: gazza

Title: the tass

Review Date: 2007-02-12 12:53:00

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 4

This is really quite a nice,friendly pub on the royal mile - bar food consistently good with dining area at back - out front traditional bar with live music/tv for the sport .
Shocked to hear about the refusal to serve tap water though !! that really should never happen !

Review By: music lover

Title: live music

Review Date: 2006-11-13 01:27:20

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 3

looked in on a wednesday night - great real people playing real traditional music

Review By: Jackie Mills

Title: Don't eat or drink here

Review Date: 2006-05-04 13:13:57

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

Refused to give me a glass of tap water, despite having just spent £40.00 on food.Instead they tried to sell me overpriced bottled water. This practice is in violation of the licencing laws.

Review By: Alan Smith

Title: Boycott this pub

Review Date: 2006-01-26 09:53:07

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

The Tass refuses to server tap water, in violation of licensing laws. They will only server overpriced mineral water.

Review By: Burgh Beermonster

Title: Boozing at The Burgh

Review Date: 2005-09-10 19:24:16

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

The Tass has quality ale !!! Quality barmaids (The Irish, Aussie & Russian girls ;-) ) and serves good haggis, neeps & tatties

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Had a great afternoon there eating Scottish Angus Beef and chips and local ale. Have no idea what the complaints about tap water are about. We had a great time.

I forgot about the refusal to serve tap water... Unbelievable. So I'll change every rating to zero just to even things up.

Over priced beer (even considering it's the High St). Bands that love themselves too much and complete lack of atmosphere when they're not playing. Good, wide selection of grub but it's not cheap either. In short a tourist pub for all those visting Bannie Skatland.

Not a bad drinking den but could do with a refurb

Refusing tap water is rubbish, however not against licensing laws. People should know what they are talking about before they start complaining. yeah it's a tad expensive, but that is normal for edinburgh! sorry guys.....

This is a really friendly pub - the bar staff are great, the prices are very reasonable and the live music is a real treat! I haven't eaten there yet, but I'm that the food is good.

1st class ales, whiskies, wines and they serve real food!also unusual selection of quality soft drinks. people complaining about being thirsty but not wanting to buy a drink can surely not complain

This is really quite a nice,friendly pub on the royal mile - bar food consistently good with dining area at back - out front traditional bar with live music/tv for the sport . Shocked to hear about the refusal to serve tap water though !! that really should never happen !

looked in on a wednesday night - great real people playing real traditional music

Refused to give me a glass of tap water, despite having just spent £40.00 on food.Instead they tried to sell me overpriced bottled water. This practice is in violation of the licencing laws.

The Tass refuses to server tap water, in violation of licensing laws. They will only server overpriced mineral water.

The Tass has quality ale !!! Quality barmaids (The Irish, Aussie & Russian girls ;-) ) and serves good haggis, neeps & tatties

This is a really friendly pub - the bar staff are great, the prices are very reasonable and the live music is a real treat!

I haven't eaten there yet, but I'm that the food is good.

This is really quite a nice,friendly pub on the royal mile - bar food consistently good with dining area at back - out front traditional bar with live music/tv for the sport .
Shocked to hear about the refusal to serve tap water though !! that really should never happen !