Heads & Tales Gin Bar

You'll find yourself on a quiet stretch of Rutland Street, just off the West End, climbing into what feels like someone's very well-stocked living room. Heads & Tales isn't trying to be theatrical about it—there's no gimmick, no Instagram nonsense, just excellent cocktails made by people who actually know their way around a bottle of gin. The space has that unhurried, intimate feel of a proper neighbourhood bar, the kind where regulars settle in for the evening and the bartender remembers what you drank last time. It's the place you'd take someone if you wanted to show them what Edinburgh's cocktail scene does well.