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• Just to update some of the recommendations: the oft-mentioned Cafe/Bar Brio went downmarket after a few years and eventually closed. Sinkys is about to open as a football-free bar with live music nights. Urban has opened in the former St Margaret's Hotel and has pool tables. Ahead of the expected Wetherspoons opening in 2008, the biggest change in town has been the opening of the Seven Kings opposite the Glen Gates - it's a shameless copy of the Wetherspoons format but veering a bit heavily towards a sports bar for comfort at some times and the food is more expensive and less varied. I'd still recommend the City Hotel for the best food deal.The Elizabethan on the east side out of town is also worth a visit.Also a bit off the beaten track is The Woodmill on Lynburn Rd (opposite St Columba's High School) which is more of a restuarant with a great wee bar attached than it ever was in previous guises. Though a new pub is being built nearby in the Eastern Expansion Zone this is currently the best bet in that part of town. The Millers is also about to close.
• Tappys is no bad like.....bit small but shit happens\! waterhole is no bad part fi the doormen!! haha
• ERMMM LIFE ABSALUTE DISASTER!!!!!!
• Neds neds neds and more neds... and the males are almost as bad
• The Creepy Wee Pub - good atmosphere and jukebox, however it is known to attract the mid-week 'alternative' crowd.
• well if you cant get a babysitter but still want to go out johnsons is the place 2 b!! fun for all the family.
• SINKYS!!!!!
• Thirsty Kirstys and Porkys both have a fresh faced crowd, but why go to the pub when you can swill Buckfast on the street.
• Raffles Chalmers Street. Older clientele. Pole dancing live music weekends Local down to earth but good and gritty. Call a shovel a shovel and no messing.
• Few good pubs, many 'who the hell are you' pubs though. You know the kind deathly silence as you walk in the door, even the piano player stops playing.
• Foundry, Epoque,
• The Foundry, newest pub in dunfermline, where i work, you can't miss it just down from the ballroom
• The Foundry - a great new oasis in Carnegie Drive across from the Fire Station (which is not a pub). Huge bars, pool, plasma screens which broadcast the latest poledancing efforts as well as live footie. Good mixed crowds but can get pretty busy. Pub grub dismal.
• to many to name
• Esat Port Bar is a sewer.
• the watering hole, pool tables, friendly staff a great place to go have a laugh and chill out with your mates
• Decent little pub called 'Somewhere Else'(I think) Again not the height of sophistication, but friendly enough.
• The watering hole
• The Old Inn, Coadys.
• New-look Monty's HAS to be the only pre-club pub to be seen in! Great party atmosphere, top-class bar staff and modern decor.... see you there soon!
• The only good pub in the whole damn place in my opinion is "the creepy we pub" next to "life" night club, realy gothic creepy deco but a great atmosphere and my mates bands album in the juke box (northern electric, by cruiser) so check em out.
• Sams bar in the pitbauchlie house hotel, newly refurbished.friendly staff and regulars and good food.Kind od out of the centre though.The creepy wee pub is good on a weeknite for a quiet drink and has the best jukebox in town.
• Sinky's (band night), Watering hole (nice beer garden), Creepy wee pub (cosy wee pub), PJ molloys (good bands), Mardis (if u r skint), Brio (if u r rich!)
• Whoever mentioned Whisky Joe's was right - brilliant pub, left my head there in about '89. All pretty poor now apart from the Commercial - only pub in town where you can drink 14 pints of Theakston's Old Peculier and still get called a buftie. Used to be pub of choice for striking posties lead by Dunnsy - strikes always on pay day for some reason. As for the rest the East Port's the Pars theme pub - every bit as shite as it sounds - but at least it's improved since that miserable bastard John Grieve left. There's Raffles which is for inbreds with blue spiders webs tattooed on their necks. I was in there one day having a turd toastie and a stranger popped his head round the door but, oddly, decided not to enter, the next 20 minutes were taken up with 'Boab, who wis that cunt', 'Dinnae ken', 'Here, Doreen, whit wis that cunt efter', 'Dinnae ken,we'll need tae ask Simesy when he's back fae the pishhoose' etc, etc. Not a word of a lie. And there used to be a guy in the Glen Gates who'd try to get you to buy him drinks on the pretext that he went to school with Peter Sutcliffe. Or was that the Roadhouse. Anyway worst of all is the Bruce - there are more hygienic latrines in Guam, they've got a strict 'oxygen thieves' only policy and I've a feeling that numpty fae Abbey View who used to have Spurs tattooed on his forehead went in there. Arsepiece didn't even know who they were. Class. Still at least it isn't Ballingry.
• Creepy Wee Pub on the Kirkgate - great fun, mixed crowd, friendly staff and fantastic range of new and funk drinks!
• Another plus for Sinkys. Try it on a Thursday night. There's non stop music from 9pm until closing with plenty of excellent musos just getting up there and strutting their stuff. Superb.
• Not much to say really!!! accept....very samey!!
• WELLWOOD SOCIAL CLUB FOR RIVITING CONVERSATION AND INDEPTH DESCUSION
• creepy wee pub. its got a good jukebox
• The Brucie/Millers on Blacklaw Road - excellent banter, hard as nails, loads of local charm, pint of lager is £1.50 on week nights. Choose the mental public bar filled with Brucefield and Abbeyview's finest or the slightly more relaxing lounge bar. Best pub in the town by miles.
• Brio, Brio, Brio! The best pre-club pub in the toon. Especially when you know the bar staff! Music is good, especially the last hour of Brian's session, nice oldies to groove along too. They have to get Bud back on tap though!!!!!! I miss the frosted glasses!!!
• Great pub for the pisshead...Somewherelse just up from montys
• Bar Brio- excellant interior, nice atmosphere, too expensive, Mardi Gras- excellant pre-club pub(PCP), cheap drink, excellant DJ, pity he is just in a pub!!?!?!?!?!?
• You've gotta love Sinkys - classic rock meets boozing teens, and big ol' Sinky is always there, getting balder everytime I go in. Mmmmm. (But why did they get rid of the carpet one asks????) NB: Always avoid the Shitty Hotel.
• Loads but all for older men!!!! Try Bar Brio if you are under 30!!
• Try the "Auld Toll" pub on the South side of town, on the Rosyth road - good food and pleasant hosts (Mr & Mrs Alan Ward)
• the old abbey tavern (christie crowns)
• Sinky's - Bandnight Thursdays, Busy at the weekends - fun bar staff
• Sinky's, Watering hole, Monty's, Mardi Gras, Tappie Toories, The Creepie Wee Pub, The Commercial (21+), PJ Malloys (21+), The Auld Inn.
• The Auld Inn has a nice atmosphere, as does the Commercial Bar. There is a new one called Cafe Brio which looks lovely and trendy (so it probably won't be open for long). Otherwise, all the others are crawling with embryo's and aging casuals.
• East Port Bar - East Port Street, Just before the Highstreet The Elizabeathan - Halbeath Road
• Montys is the place if you want cool music and to dance on the seats!

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Last updated: 2008-10-14