Dundee:
The Good Beer Guide led is here, but there’d be a case for heritage pub too. Lovely Victorian pub, proper bench seating, good beer, food that looked good from the menu. Wonderful stained glass, too. A lovely traditional pub.
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The Bank Bar
Dundee:
Belhaven (so Greene King) pub in the city centre. We’d been to the nearby, very new, V&A Dundee (which was ace).
Don’t let the GK put you off. Good choice of guest beer, great staff, and good food. Pleasantly not-too-plush, not-too-contrived decor; a conversion from a bank, like several Dundee pubs. Prices entirely reasonable, too.
The Ship Inn
Broughty Ferry:
Popular (too popular!) pub, and semi-seperate restaurant. We’d tried to get in on Saturday, and didn’t even get through the door.
We were a bit luckier on Sunday, there was space and a couple of seats. Sadly, those seats were next to a gobshite and her friend who seemed to think playing music on a mobile phone was appropriate, so we didn’t stay to eat. The pub itself is fine- good beer and wine, decent-looking pub food, decent staff, though, and a great location.
Jolly’s Hotel
Broughty Ferry:
‘spoons. Move along, no surprises here. Decent enough beer and staff, attached hotel. Unusually, toilets on the same floor as the bar.
The Fisherman’s Tavern
Broughty Ferry:
We’d underestimated just how busy Broughty Ferry could be on a Saturday night: this place was rammed, but we just scored a table by sheer luck.
This is a CAMRA award winning pub for multiple years, and seems well enough liked by the community for them to get all in a froth about the refurb which seems to have been completed fairly recently- when we were there, a local CAMRA member (yes, with beard) was taking photos and being shown round. The pub is three cottages, turned into a pub-with-rooms. The refurb has opened it up, which is a shame, but it’s still a decent place despite Greene King (Belhaven)’s best efforts. Great beer (courtesy of non-GK guest ales), decentish pub food, really great staff, pleasant customers (a requirement, given the density).
The Occidental Bar
Broughty Ferry, Dundee:
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Our local for a week, being the nearest pub to our holiday cottage. An ordinary Scottish community pub away from the main tourist drag at the waterfront. When we walked in early on a Saturday evening it was rammed in the bar, busy in the lounge, but we found seats, a short distance from a group of lads from a football team, one with a remarkable Dwayne Dibley haircut that presumably is fashionable now, like I’d know.
Anyway, the pub. busy, pleasant enough, no food, no cask (so Heverlee it was). Much quieter on Tuesday evening, handy for the bus service. The name just kept reminding me of Piper Alpha, though.