Pear Tree, Edinburghback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Hadn't been in in over ten years; went in last week - still the same. The real ales were bloody awful, though!
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A bit of a result in terms of the beer garden. Is there anything better to do on a summers day than site outside with a great pint of beer? This place got the first part of the equation spot on, but let themselves down with some very ropey looking hooch.
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Superb beer garden, but that's about it.
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Massive beer garden, fantastic quiz, lovely interior.
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Don't go here unless you are aged 18 to 25. We had the most depressing night at the (packed)pub quiz - how could all these spotty yoofs possible be cleverer than us?! Must have been the non-traditional questions.
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The scarcity of any pubs with outdoor drinking in central Edinburgh undoubtedly makes the Pear Tree useful in the summer. On any reasonably sunny day the cobbled beer garden is full of people who are prepared to pay The Pear Tree Tax; currently it's �2.70 for a pint of Caledonian 80' or Deuchars IPA, so if you want a more reasonably priced beer head next door to the Blind Poet or further along to the Southsider.
As far as other facilities go, you can pay by card and they will do cashback. You can get pretty good sandwiches at the bar, which come from Twigs. (Incidentally, Twigs must be a candidate for Edinburgh's sandwich shop with the most irritating clientele - how many other shops need to put a sign saying, "You will not be served if you are talking on the phone"?)
On Monday night at 9pm there's probably the best pub quiz I've been to, with tough regular competition and scrupulously well-researched questions. It's run by Dave who also does sets the quizzes in the Auld Hoose and the Blind Poet, although the Pear Tree one is more fun, in my opinion.
Finally, a bit of Pear Tree trivia: apparently the round dome on the top of Pear Tree House (which you can't really see from the ground) was the inspiration for the dome of the Usher Hall, the connection being that Andrew Usher was born in the building... (If you know this to be nonsense, please email me :)
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One of the top drinkers in the Edinburgh Uni area, spending an afternoon in the beer garden here is a bit of a rite of passage for students here. They've got a canopy and heaters for winter now as well but it just aint the same as a bright sunny day. As for inside, decent enough but can get bloody crowded if the weather turns and everyone heads inside. Admittedly, it is a bit pricey but more than worth it. Top pub!
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Used to be known as the Poo Tree when I was a student, largely due to the quality of the food. The only reason you'd ever go here is because of the garden. And even then it's full of rah-rah-ing students. If you must go, remember to ignore the staff - everyone hates them, the surly bunch of buggers.
Alex - 17 Oct 2003 13:19 |
Nice beer garden, bit priscy for somewhere known as a student pub, goes to show the sort of students we have in Edinburgh...
Al - 2 Oct 2003 18:36 |
Student/mixed pub with good beers, English ex-pats may find this more like the type of place they are used to rather than some of the Edinburgh pubs.
Vindaloo - 16 Aug 2003 08:50 |
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