Bar Salsa (Cowgate)

Great for cheap drink if you can overlook the fact it reeks of piss!

Winstons (Corstorphine)

Go to Winstons for the best steak pie money can buy (except on Sunday when they don't serve them). The beer is pretty good too. A good pint of Best and the option of various real ales. Frequented by a Mathew Kelly lookalike (the former presenter of Stars In Their Eyes). See him in shorts, a Hawaiian shirt and sandals throughout the summer.

Steak pie. Mmm.

Joseph Pearce's (Elm Row)

Quite a bizzare venue, I hated it last time, but this time it grew on me. Granted a pint of Guinness is an outrageous £3.60, but a couple of the bar maids were absolutely stunning and very attentive in their service. The bar was very crowded with all sorts of random punters from young professionals, to students, to the elderly, to butch lesbians. However no one seemed to mind when I moved a large armchair to sit on from the corner of the bar to our table in the middle of the bar, creating an obvious obstruction. So overall a tolerant bar if not a little pricey.