Last week I went to the newish bar on Queen Street called Bramble (Next to Urban Angel), use to be called the Fishtank and something else before that. It’s still a cool funky basement bar but this time with a Swing 1930’s feel about it, even the staff behind the bar dress up in this era. It has retain the unisex toliet layout with some rather sexy looking paintings on the walls. Check out the MySpace Wbsite…
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=133387900
A link to the Guardian
http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11109
Jamie
February 14th, 2007
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.
The Good Life
September 5th, 2008