text: Drinking on Lothian Road is usually divided into 2 distinct sets of clientele - the stag party groups that frequent the seemingly endless stream of \"gentleman's clubs\" along here, or the real ale drinkers who bar hop from Bennet's 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've been dragged along here on a handful of occasions.\n\nIt's an ok pub, albeit a bit on the small and pokey side, and the construction works going on outside seem as if they're never going to end - this really doesn't 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're going to a show or a gig at the adjacent Usher Hall, it's an ok place to pop in for a drink beforehand. Otherwise, you probably woldn't go out of your way to come here.