Stack & Still

You're walking down Hanover Street, that brilliant stretch where Edinburgh's Georgian elegance starts getting interesting—galleries, boutiques, the kind of place where you actually want to spend an afternoon. Stack & Still slots in perfectly: all bare brick, moody lighting, and the kind of behind-the-bar energy that suggests the people making your drinks actually know what they're doing. The menu punches above its weight, moving beyond the predictable cocktail-bar fare into proper food that tastes like someone cares. It's not trying too hard, but it's not phoning it in either—the sort of place you'd genuinely plan a night around, not just stumble into because you needed a drink.