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Edinburgh Nightlife, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, UK - Nightlife: Get the best seductive nightlife of UK

One of the largest cities of Europe, Edinburgh promises you to offer the best experience in the night. The city has a pulsating nightlife, which offers a tranquil environment for the youth to and couples to enjoy their time to the fullest.

Grass Market

You get to choose from a large number of restaurants, pubs and clubs in Edinburgh, which offer you entertainment throughout the night. If you are looking for a traditional atmosphere, you can visit the Grass Market located in the Lothian Road and the surrounding streets including the famous Rose Street. These places and their surroundings, which include The Bridges, attract a lot of young boys and girls.

Restaurants

Recent years have seen emergence of some more popular locations adding to the glitter of the nightlife in Edinburgh and the most famous of them is George Street in New Town. This place has grown in prominence having a large number of nightclubs, bars and pubs parallel to Queen Street. Some of the famous restaurants in New Town, which can really please you, are Tiger Lily, Lulu, Dome, Ricks, Opal Lounge, Bar 38, Le Monde, Billy Muligans, The World’s End, Clever Dicks, The Mitre, A selection of Royal Mile Pubs Cannon Gait, Finnegan’s Wake and Greyfriars Bobby’s Bar. If you are looking for fashionable areas having clubs and restaurants, you should visit the waterfront at Leith and Stock Bridge.

Nightclubs

Edinburgh, like many other big cities in UK, has some of the best nightclubs playing popular chartbusters. Such nightclubs offer underground experience and plays wonderful music ranging from House, Drum & Bass, Electronica, House and Techno to soothe your mind.  Some of the famous night clubs are The Venue, Wilkie House, La Belle Angele and the Honeycomb. Apart from the above mentioned night clubs, if you are looking for some expensive and modern night clubs, you can definitely go for Luna, The Liquid room, Studio 24 and The Cabaret Voltaire. There are also two clubs dedicated for the gay community in Edinburgh namely the GHQ and the CC Blooms.

The List

If you are new in Edinburgh and know little about the fabulous nightlife of the city, you can try your hands on ‘The List’. It is a fortnightly publication and is dedicated to the nightlife of the city containing listings of all famous bars, nightclubs, theatres, music and other events.

 
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