The backbar at STR·EAT, tiers of whisky bottles lit warm beneath a stone vault

The Whisky Bar · Strait Street

One hundred and sixty single malts.

Down the black door, under the stone. Open until midnight, with the kitchen on until eleven.

The list

160

single malts, by the glass

Speyside through Islay, and a good deal in between. Every one of them is poured by the glass — there is no bottle you have to commit to, and no reason to order the thing you already know.

The list is long on purpose. It is there to be worked through slowly over a winter, not admired from across the room. If you tell the bar what you have liked before, you will get somewhere better than if you read the list yourself.

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Bottles of Lindores Abbey Lowland single malt on a lit shelf at STR·EAT, Laphroaig and Ardbeg behind

Finding us

The black door on Strait Street.

There is no sign worth looking for. Look for the black facade, and the tables outside it.

Through the door the stairs go down. Past a low arch is the whisky bar itself, and through a door beyond that, the bistro under the vaults. Keep going and the stairs take you up to the terrace bar and out onto Old Theatre Street, on the square — which is the other way into the same building, and the reason people who came for one drink are still here at midnight.

Tables out on Strait Street at night, lit warm along the alley

The Whisky Terrace

Tables out on Strait Street, at the door. Good most of the year — and if the weather turns, we move you inside.

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Fried calamari at STR·EAT, served on a wooden board with lemon and leaves

From the kitchen

The bistro is through the door past the bar, cut into the rock, and the kitchen runs until eleven. It is the room to book when the weather turns.

The food menu
The STR·EAT sign lit above the entrance at night, gold lettering on navy

Happy Hour

Any two for €9, every day from five until seven.

Rusty Nail, Whisky Sour, Basil Smash, Negroni Sbagliato, Moscow Mule, Irish Mule, London Mule or a Spritz. Dine-in only, and not valid with any other offer.

Where and when

Strait Street, and the square behind it.

The whisky bar, bistro and whisky terrace
Sunday to Thursday, 17:00 – 00:00
Friday and Saturday, 13:00 – 00:00
Kitchen
Until 23:00, every night
Happy Hour
Every day, 17:00 – 19:00
Any two for €9
To book
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The bistro and the whisky terrace take bookings. The bar is walk-in.
Two doors
The black one on Strait Street, open from 17:00 — and from 13:00 on Friday and Saturday.
Before that, come to the blue door on Old Theatre Street, on the square.
The menus
Every menu on this site is the live one — the same list the floor is working from tonight.

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