text: Drinking on Lothian Road is usually divided into distinct sets of clientele the stag party groups that frequent the seemingly endless stream of gentlemans clubs along here or the real ale drinkers who bar hop from Bennets to The Cloisters and then work their way up towards Princes Street And whilst just for the record I fall into neither of those categories my flatmate loves a good real ale pub and so I have been dragged along here on a handful of occasionsnnIts an ok pub albeit a bit on the small and pokey side and the construction works going on outside seem as if they are never going to end this really does not add much to the atmosphere of the place I think before the smoking ban came in this place would have been much more buzzing and vibrant but now it just seems a bit redundant and boring If you are going to a show or a gig at the adjacent Usher Hall it is an ok place to pop in for a drink beforehand Otherwise you probably woldnt go out of your way to come here