The story so far: We send Dave out and about in Leith to soak up the atmosphere in the less fashionable night-spots in the city. So far he's been offered knock-off goods in the Marksman and made friends with the locals in the Foot of The Walk. This week, barely staggering distance from his last port of call, Dave has a tipple in the Central Bar on Leith Walk.by David Hynes
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My goodness this is Leith at its grimmest, not quite enough to shake the Marksman from its top ranking in the pantheon of pub poorness (even at this early stage it looks like the clear front-runner to get the coveted ‘worst pub in Leith’ award) but shockingly bad all the same.
Going to terrible pubs is personality building, and because of this terrible pubs can become national institutions. Like boozy initiation tests for the truly British. But alas, the Central is not so much an initiation test as a test of will, mainly because the place is so sense-numbingly dull.
The décor looks like a drab Scottish nightmare but not nearly as interesting. Have you ever been near suicidal and wondered why you keep wasting your money at the bar? If you have and you liked that feeling then get on down to the Central, the very epicentre of the end of the world.
There were positives - the barman was undoubtedly cheery and he seemed to take no little pride in his abode. They have a widescreen TV too, but I think this is a sympathetic gesture to divert concentration away from the mucus-coloured and probably mucus-stained walls.
But the positives were few and far between and any lingering sympathy I may have had were wiped away when I was served, without doubt, the worst pint of Guinness in Edinburgh.
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