http://www.jamieclague.co.uk/blog/2007/02/14/bramble-bar-edinburgh/ It's Just A Ride... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:57:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://www.jamieclague.co.uk/blog/2007/02/14/bramble-bar-edinburgh/#comment-12 Jamie Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:19:30 +0000 http://www.jamieclague.co.uk/blog/2007/02/14/bramble-bar-edinburgh/#comment-12 A link to the Guardian http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11109 A link to the Guardian
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]]> http://www.jamieclague.co.uk/blog/2007/02/14/bramble-bar-edinburgh/#comment-476 The Good Life Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:08:29 +0000 http://www.jamieclague.co.uk/blog/2007/02/14/bramble-bar-edinburgh/#comment-476 Bramble, on the face of it, is a nice bar: it's off the beaten path, more or less, being underground, and has good music, a "cool" hip-hop crowd, and a good cocktail menu. However, it suffers from the arbitrary, apparently-standard, male-directed xenohophia (well, that's what I assume is going on) that many other Edinburgh bars have going on. I have been to Bramble many times since it opened but tonight, for the first time, I was refused service and escorted off the premises on the grounds of being "too drunk". Now, I know what you are thinking: Friday night, high spirits, hormones blazing, I probaly deserved it. But no. The reality is that I am a mid-30's professional family man with a yoound daughter. Tonight a similarly experienced friend took me to Bramble to show me a new place. Bizarrely, we were roughly escorted from the premises by a pair of agressive bouncers because we asked for a repeat of a cocktail that we had been happily served (and paid £13 for!) by the head barman. Bramble seems to me to be a place that will take your hard-earned salary then arbitrarily refuse to serve you so much as a glass of water afterwards., I recommend nthat you avoid this establishment, or face the cost of a terrrible evening. The owner seems to believe that he/she (it seemed to have been a He) inhabits a rarefied and arbitray social space where ordinary people can be dismissed at whim. Don't go. Don't. Please. Bramble, on the face of it, is a nice bar: it’s off the beaten path, more or less, being underground, and has good music, a “cool” hip-hop crowd, and a good cocktail menu. However, it suffers from the arbitrary, apparently-standard, male-directed xenohophia (well, that’s what I assume is going on) that many other Edinburgh bars have going on. I have been to Bramble many times since it opened but tonight, for the first time, I was refused service and escorted off the premises on the grounds of being “too drunk”. Now, I know what you are thinking: Friday night, high spirits, hormones blazing, I probaly deserved it. But no. The reality is that I am a mid-30’s professional family man with a yoound daughter. Tonight a similarly experienced friend took me to Bramble to show me a new place. Bizarrely, we were roughly escorted from the premises by a pair of agressive bouncers because we asked for a repeat of a cocktail that we had been happily served (and paid £13 for!) by the head barman. Bramble seems to me to be a place that will take your hard-earned salary then arbitrarily refuse to serve you so much as a glass of water afterwards., I recommend nthat you avoid this establishment, or face the cost of a terrrible evening. The owner seems to believe that he/she (it seemed to have been a He) inhabits a rarefied and arbitray social space where ordinary people can be dismissed at whim. Don’t go. Don’t. Please.

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