Three Sisters, The - presented by Edinburgh Pub Guide

American / Gothic / Irish

139 Cowgate
GRASSMARKET, Edinburgh
EH1

URL: www.the3sisters.co.uk

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Review By: Scouser Rob

Title: OK

Review Date: 2007-10-16 18:45:57

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 2

Food & Drink Rating: 2

Went on the friday and was quiet but we did get there early about 7pm, very expensive for drinks, it was abosulute mental on Saturday with drunkin Scots celebrating there victory over the Ukraine, they did get anoyed though when England won the Rugby!!!! Not bad but not really worth the hype.

Review By: Pk and the Biotech boys

Title: Great ITA Forum Venue!

Review Date: 2007-08-02 07:48:20

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 4

We were in Edinburgh for only one night and managed two pubs in that time. The 3 sisters was by far the better of the two. Great crowd, good beer and a fantastic atmosphere. The '80s music was top notch, but the robotic dancing was a bit OTT.

We'll be back!

Review By: Dave

Title: Sardines

Review Date: 2007-07-02 17:29:47

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: 0

THis has to be one of the WORST bars in Edinburgh in the evening, principally for the following reasons:

1: They let WAY too many people in (they must be well over their allowed capacity);
2: Don't worry if you're only 16 - by the time you get served at the bar you'll easily be 18;
3: Broken glass / bottles / general crap EVERYWHERE;
4: Has the ambience of a wet haddock.

It's mobbed at the weekends, so they must be doing something right - I just have no idea what (and neither do they, probably!)

Note to the staff: customer service is a GOOD thing, not a bad one...

Review By: NIHENS

Title: Hen Party

Review Date: 2007-07-02 14:52:41

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 3

We were at a Hen party at the weeked and stayed in the Three Sisters, the craic was great and the staff were really friendly.

Review By: Sarah, Mandy and Claire- Dublin

Title: Three sisters- best pub in the burgh!!!

Review Date: 2007-06-27 15:47:40

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 4

Went to edinburgh last month and were advised to go here by friends. Loved it so much we've just booked flights to go back next month and cant wait to go back to this pub! If you like a good laugh, dancing to some good and some cheesy eighties music and meeting loads of people from stags and hens this is the place to be! The bouncers will give you a dance if your nice to them too :)

Review By: Louise

Title: Best pub by far

Review Date: 2007-06-19 15:53:41

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

This was the first pub we came to when we arrived in edinburgh and definately was the best, everyone is just up for a laugh and they play great music so you can have a good dance!!Plenty of hens and stags parties so wouldnt be going there for a quiet drink. I Would highly recommend a trip to the 3 sisters for anyone visiting edinburgh, you'll be guaranteed a great night!

Review By: Islay

Title: Three Sisters

Review Date: 2007-05-14 15:29:47

Overall Rating: 1

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 0

awful service, If you are not wasted avoid at all costs. The bar staff seem to be trained to only serve the the customers that are are so drunk they can't even speak.

Review By: bec

Title: best pub in edinburgh

Review Date: 2007-04-17 15:25:02

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

was there during hogmanay, loved it so much didnt even care that the festival was cancelled and stayed an xtra week in edinburgh. Met some awesome people here. the staff were great value.i think they prefer a smile to a glare. Its awesome unpretentious fun and i think all the prudes should get the poles out of their a...s. It is true the toliets are terrible but so r most public toliets at large venues. Great place to dance to a few classics and see a bit of unexpected talent.

Review By: scottish lass

Title: the 3 Sisters

Review Date: 2007-04-17 13:25:02

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 3

This pub always provides a great start to the night!the music is great and you can sing and dance along to it. Wouldn't stay here all night but its a good way to start the evening!!!

Review By: SJL

Title: great if you want to get trampled on

Review Date: 2007-03-15 19:20:07

Overall Rating: 1

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 2

This bar is a great size and the staff seem fine, problem is they let way too many people in here. As a result it's always a major crush on a weekend/friday night, broken glass all over the floor (which nobody is in any hurry to clear), you get shoved in all directions by the mass of people, you can't stand still and drink without being pushed over...the list goes on. And as for seats- forget it! I've been lots of times and hated every one of them. I also failed to get the Irish thing, there's more irish in a glass of baileys! Drinks are pretty reasonable though on the plus side.

Review By: gazza

Title: 3 sisters

Review Date: 2007-03-08 12:31:55

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 2

Food & Drink Rating: 2

To be fair though , its not a bad place to watch the football - and the barstaff are very nice . Just not a place to spend the evening for sure.

Review By: Julia Chambers

Title: They've got GHD's

Review Date: 2007-02-26 11:39:06

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 5

Fabulous for a burger over lunchtime, on an evening turns into a gathering of multinational people, generally dressed up for hen and stag do's, rugby types etc... Brilliant night out, very friendly, and one for the girls, they have GHD straighteners in the toilets - brilliant idea.
Good mix of music, always know the words, so lts of singing to behold.

Highly recommended!!!

Review By: gazza

Title: 3 sisters

Review Date: 2007-01-22 16:48:57

Overall Rating: 1

Ambience Rating: 2

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: 1

Its a toilet , guarded by knobhead bouncers - inside crap music at nosebleed volumes , dirty glasses and tables and the toilets are disgusting .
Students and screeching hen nights/stag nights a speciality . Give this one a miss...

Review By: Bambi

Title: Has its good & bad points

Review Date: 2007-01-14 21:29:31

Overall Rating: 2

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 2

Food & Drink Rating: 2

Always has a good atmosphere, good music & some talent, BUT... usually mobbed with tacky, annoying hen dos; bar staff are very slow; tables are never clean; & toilets are really, really manky. And avoid this bar at all costs during the 6 Nations!

Review By: love it

Title: Oh sssh

Review Date: 2007-01-04 18:33:00

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

This pub is good. As i am a tax dodging student, they place is so fun. Paddys night is amazing there all the Irish in Edinburgh flee here and it is one massive party. When rugby and football is on its packed and has a good atmosphere. Pub quiz is fun too.

Review By: student

Title: students

Review Date: 2007-01-02 00:57:02

Overall Rating: 1

Ambience Rating: 1

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: 1

As echoed below, full of "trendy" girls and football "lad" guys. Avoid unless you're one of them and definitely if you're not a sports fan!

Also to the person below, some of us students in Edinburgh do work aswell and pay a fair bit of tax !

Review By: Drew Busby

Title: Rotten

Review Date: 2006-12-29 23:36:46

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 3

I'd avoid this pit like the plague unless you
a) Have a love for arrogant bouncers
b) Love socialising with tax dodging students
c) Like waitng forever on an overpriced pint or
d) Your on a stag/hen party

Review By: Gottalottabottle

Title: Leave well alone...

Review Date: 2006-12-10 16:00:14

Overall Rating: 1

Ambience Rating: 1

Value Rating: 2

Food & Drink Rating: 1

...unless your idea of fun is to be surrounded by sweaty, smelly, ugly, undereducated students with attitude problems then avoid at all costs. Drinks are cheap if you can get one. Noisy, unsophisticated... there really is no excuse for this level of shoddiness. You'll be lucky to find a tap working or even a loo seat... BUT, and this is a very big 'but' at least you know all the undesirables are in one place so you are free to enjoy the rest of your evening elsewhere. Enjoy!

Review By: Laura

Title: Three Sisters

Review Date: 2006-12-01 17:12:27

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

I loved this pub when I was there. It was when the australia vs scotland rugby match was on and the atmosphere was amazing. I had been to a few different pubs while the match was on and none compared to the three sisters. I have been told by friends that the atmosphere is always like that. it also had great music and good bar service. good stuff :)

Review By: fozzy bear

Title: great place

Review Date: 2006-10-25 16:53:57

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 4

the 3 sisters bar staff r not slow. they work very hard. the food is very limited though. the djs r hot. great banter and music. x

Review By: caca

Title: three sisters brill...

Review Date: 2006-08-23 16:40:49

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 4

great pub great crowd.. only fault is bar staff very very slow.. food fab just not a lot besides burgers and chips....

Review By: DM

Title: brilliant

Review Date: 2006-07-09 20:57:27

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 4

I love it every time I go, great banter

Review By: michelle

Title: three sisters

Review Date: 2006-05-07 13:32:13

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: 4

I think the three sisters is the best pub in edinburgh by far! me n my m8s have a fab time when we go there

Review By: elainemarie

Title: Stag and hen night heaven

Review Date: 2006-05-06 02:41:53

Overall Rating: 0

Ambience Rating: 0

Value Rating: 0

Food & Drink Rating: 1

Avoid is you are over 20. In fact - avoid if you have an taste...or sense of smell. I have only been there 3 times - and it stinks of vomit.

Review By: scottish-norwegian lass

Title: footy?

Review Date: 2006-03-28 18:08:13

Overall Rating: 1

Ambience Rating: 1

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: 1

loud and full of sports fans (footy, rugby etc - whenever there's a game on!) drinks are ok but nothing special. your standard pub. nothing special.

Review By: normsky

Title: good fun

Review Date: 2006-02-20 21:52:22

Overall Rating: 4

Ambience Rating: 4

Value Rating: 4

Food & Drink Rating: 3

It was cool totally wicked for people who want to just go out meet cool people and have a fun night out. Good selection of music on. Get your asses down there.

Review By: Big Pete

Title: Scottish Lads at The Three Sisters

Review Date: 2006-02-04 16:26:13

Overall Rating: 5

Ambience Rating: 5

Value Rating: 5

Food & Drink Rating: 5

The Three Sisters is a favourite pub of the Scottish Lads, its always busy from late afternoon and theres never any bother. If theres rugby or football on TV then its packed all day

Review By: spain

Title: spanish in your pub

Review Date: 2005-12-11 22:30:21

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 3

Food & Drink Rating: 3

hi, I'm from spain, and I was there last week. I really enjoy the place, and the music above all. but the dj doesn't play bon jovi. :P

Review By: Mr Bumble

Title: Mr Bumble says,

Review Date: 2004-09-11 11:24:05

Overall Rating: 3

Ambience Rating: 3

Value Rating: 1

Food & Drink Rating: 3

Hail the Uber Pub. Massive, sprawling pub with multiple bars and a large beer garden. This place has found itself as a hotspot for hen and stag parties. Fri & Sat night be prepared to fight your way in and the bar Qs are worse. Dance floor upstairs with very sticky floor - so don't try your moonwalking....

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Went on the friday and was quiet but we did get there early about 7pm, very expensive for drinks, it was abosulute mental on Saturday with drunkin Scots celebrating there victory over the Ukraine, they did get anoyed though when England won the Rugby!!!! Not bad but not really worth the hype.

We were in Edinburgh for only one night and managed two pubs in that time. The 3 sisters was by far the better of the two. Great crowd, good beer and a fantastic atmosphere. The '80s music was top notch, but the robotic dancing was a bit OTT. We'll be back!

We were at a Hen party at the weeked and stayed in the Three Sisters, the craic was great and the staff were really friendly.

awful service, If you are not wasted avoid at all costs. The bar staff seem to be trained to only serve the the customers that are are so drunk they can't even speak.

This pub always provides a great start to the night!the music is great and you can sing and dance along to it. Wouldn't stay here all night but its a good way to start the evening!!!

To be fair though , its not a bad place to watch the football - and the barstaff are very nice . Just not a place to spend the evening for sure.

Its a toilet , guarded by knobhead bouncers - inside crap music at nosebleed volumes , dirty glasses and tables and the toilets are disgusting . Students and screeching hen nights/stag nights a speciality . Give this one a miss...

Always has a good atmosphere, good music & some talent, BUT... usually mobbed with tacky, annoying hen dos; bar staff are very slow; tables are never clean; & toilets are really, really manky. And avoid this bar at all costs during the 6 Nations!

This pub is good. As i am a tax dodging student, they place is so fun. Paddys night is amazing there all the Irish in Edinburgh flee here and it is one massive party. When rugby and football is on its packed and has a good atmosphere. Pub quiz is fun too.

As echoed below, full of "trendy" girls and football "lad" guys. Avoid unless you're one of them and definitely if you're not a sports fan! Also to the person below, some of us students in Edinburgh do work aswell and pay a fair bit of tax !

I'd avoid this pit like the plague unless you a) Have a love for arrogant bouncers b) Love socialising with tax dodging students c) Like waitng forever on an overpriced pint or d) Your on a stag/hen party

the 3 sisters bar staff r not slow. they work very hard. the food is very limited though. the djs r hot. great banter and music. x

great pub great crowd.. only fault is bar staff very very slow.. food fab just not a lot besides burgers and chips....

I love it every time I go, great banter

I think the three sisters is the best pub in edinburgh by far! me n my m8s have a fab time when we go there

Avoid is you are over 20. In fact - avoid if you have an taste...or sense of smell. I have only been there 3 times - and it stinks of vomit.

loud and full of sports fans (footy, rugby etc - whenever there's a game on!) drinks are ok but nothing special. your standard pub. nothing special.

It was cool totally wicked for people who want to just go out meet cool people and have a fun night out. Good selection of music on. Get your asses down there.

The Three Sisters is a favourite pub of the Scottish Lads, its always busy from late afternoon and theres never any bother. If theres rugby or football on TV then its packed all day

hi, I'm from spain, and I was there last week. I really enjoy the place, and the music above all. but the dj doesn't play bon jovi. :P

We were in Edinburgh for only one night and managed two pubs in that time. The 3 sisters was by far the better of the two. Great crowd, good beer and a fantastic atmosphere. The '80s music was top notch, but the robotic dancing was a bit OTT.

We'll be back!

Its a toilet , guarded by knobhead bouncers - inside crap music at nosebleed volumes , dirty glasses and tables and the toilets are disgusting .
Students and screeching hen nights/stag nights a speciality . Give this one a miss...

As echoed below, full of "trendy" girls and football "lad" guys. Avoid unless you're one of them and definitely if you're not a sports fan!

Also to the person below, some of us students in Edinburgh do work aswell and pay a fair bit of tax !

I'd avoid this pit like the plague unless you
a) Have a love for arrogant bouncers
b) Love socialising with tax dodging students
c) Like waitng forever on an overpriced pint or
d) Your on a stag/hen party