The Mash Tun

This is my new favourite pub for watching football since becoming a Leither. There are plenty of screens, and for popular games they also have a projector. This place is no one trick pony though. They also do good grub. They have various deals running throughout the week, my favourite being the sandwich and a soft drink for a fiver. These are very tasty and generous sandwiches. The fish goujons one is great, and for an extra quid you can get chips too. The beers are also pretty decent, with guest ales and a well stocked fridge.
All in all it’s hard to find much wrong with this pub. Reasonably priced. It has a nice layout and décor, and feels clean. The atmosphere has been quite relaxed whenever I’ve been in and the staff are usually pretty friendly, and not shy about painting saltires on their faces when Scotland are playing! They are happy to accommodate small groups, though it’s best to book a table in advance if you plan to eat on a busy night.
I should also add that it’s dog friendly. Roger jumped up and chewed on my wrist everytime I celebrated a goal! And since that game was against Gibralter, my wrist was pretty raw by full time!

Lovely litle hideaway to grab a meal– we enjoyed pizza and local beers and single malts. The wait staff was friendly and helpful and we would definitely eat here again!

So as this place lies slap bang between me & my kid bro’s flat, I wind up in here quite a lot. It also does food that passes my littlest bro’s rather delicate palette, so now he’s back up here for uni, we’ll be heading up way more often.
They have a nice range of craft beers (albeit mainly bottled) and some decent cocktails for the ladies too. Food’s pretty damn good, especially considering it’s quite cheap too. The pizzas are definitely worth a try, particularly Monday to Wednesday when they’re BOGOF — bargain!!!
We went there yesterday as The Mother is up visiting her brood from Manchester, and it even passed her very strict criteria — so big family thumbs up!
Shows live football, it’s dog friendly, and had board games for when you get bored of the chat round your table too. If it wasn’t for the fact I generally find the service from the guys behind the bar a tad lacking (the girls are usually good though) it’d be getting five stars

We were walking along the road in the middle of the day and just happened to stop in.
Firstly, the atmosphere was great, nice music playing in the background and sports on TV. The bartender was very polite and knowledgeable about the beers and ciders. Grabbed an old rosie cider and a burger, and didn’t look back. Cider was wonderful and the burger was delicious. Highly recommend this pub to anyone looking for a well priced beer and some good food.

I like the Mash Tun. It nicely straddles the dual needs of Easter Road for old man bars for pre-​football pre-​loading, and somewhere a bit trendier with a few nice beers on tap for the younger end of the Easter Road crowd.

We picked up this place for watching the World Cup opening this year. The place was pretty full we stood by the bar till a table was free.
Service was top notch, there is an amazing variety of beers with some special ones written up on their blackboard, we tried several different ones and enjoyed pretty much all of them.
Unfortunately when we decided to order something from the kitchen, it was too late and closed but we went there in another day for watching another match and we all decided to order some pizzas, they have a promotion when 2 pizzas are ordered you pay only half on the second one. We LOVED it, thin crispy crust, lovely!
My favorite one was with spinach, cheese and an egg in the middle, everything with egg is better, I think this one was called Fiorentina, smtg like that!
The less favorite was the vegetarian haggis one, it lacked on flavor compared to the other ones.
Service was very good too, great place to go for some nice beers and pizza with friends.

The Mash Tun is a fantastic local to have, we’re lucky that we only live round the corner from it (literally, it’s at the end of our street). It’s welcoming, with a mixture of old man locals and a younger crowd, plus the staff have always got a great selection of tunes on.
The food is of a pretty high standard, as pub grub goes. The menu has changed slightly recently (my favourite pizza has gone, oh no!), but is still good quality. There are lunch options, sandwiches (I recommend the fish goujons one, like a fish finger sarnie but classy), burgers, pizzas and other standard fare like steak pie. Plus daily specials. You can get even more value for money if you’re savvy enough to snap up one of their deals. A burger and a beer for a tenner on Mondays, 2-​for-​1 fajitas on Tuesday, two steaks and a bottle of red (and it was a really good steak) on Thursdays and 2-​for-​1 pizzas when you buy two drinks all week. Excellent. During the summer they had Prosecco Fridays too, but I’d guess that as the weather turns that one will be wheeled back in the cupboard til next year.
The Mash Tun also often hosts tap takeovers by Leith locals Pilot Brewery (there’s one just now), with a ‘Meet the brewer’ event to kick each one off. Plus a pub quiz league on a Wednesday and regular football matches on the big screen.
I wouldn’t say that I’d necessarily go out of my way to come here if I lived on the other side of Edinburgh, but if you’re in the Easter Road area and in need of a pint and a bite, then make The Mash Tun your destination.

The mash tun is an immeasurable improvement over the old Utopia! The food is fantastic as well. 2 pizzas for the price of 1 with 2 drinks. This is Dominos style deals but these pizzas scream quality. The prices are very reasonable! Highly recommended!
Also try the Cullin Skink!

With the large amount of sporty ‘old man’ pubs on Easter Road, I was pretty excited when this place opened up as a gastropub.
We finally found time to head along and try it out a few weeks ago. There was a pub quiz on so it was pretty busy and we had to sit at the bench in the window, which was fine. The stools were a bit high so made eating slightly awkward, but alas! The atmosphere was very laid back and chill.
The pizza’s are BOGOF if you buy two drinks, so we decided to check them out. The mister had a black pudding & egg pizza which was delicious! I had a chorizo & something pizza which wasn’t really anything to write home about. We were sat next to two American girls who’d been in the night before and said the pear (?) salad was amazing, although the soup they had the night before wasn’t fantastic. So I think the pub may be struggling a bit with consistency when it comes to food. But they are fairly new still, so hopefully all these things will get ironed out.
Looked like a good selection of beers and spirits. Something to please everyone. Nicely decorated.
Would definitely head back for a drink… verdict is still out on the food tho. Might give them another chance, but not in any hurry.