Bar
The Bow Bar
Whisky-and-ale pub fitted with salvaged Victorian bar furniture, though built in the eighties.
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Bow Bar on Edinburgh's West Bow tells the story of Ian Whyte, a joiner turned pub-maker who opened the room in 1987 but filled it entirely with salvaged Victorian fittings from elsewhere. You'll hear where the mahogany counter, the church gantry, the railway benches and the etched brewery mirrors each came from, and why so many people assume the pub predates the tenement around it. The guide also points out what makes the row of beer founts behind the bar unusual among Scottish pubs today.
This audio guide was created using AI.