The Port O'Leith Bar

The Port O' Leith Bar is , if not a well kept secret, definitely off the beaten track. Situated in the eponymous port area of Edinburgh, it is probably Leith's last remaining sailors' bar. Decked out in nautical bric a brac, including flags, lifebelts, nameplates, and just about every other bit of ship you can imagine, it resembles a storeroom at a breakers'yard. Prominent among all this nauticalia is an old style figurehead, carved in the likeness of the pub's larger than life landlady, Mary Moriarty. Mary is central to the whole quaint and charmingly debauched atmosphere of the bar. While taking no nonsense (she has been known to hurdle the ...  Read the complete review