Panda & Sons
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Tuesday: 16:00 - 01:00
Wednesday: 16:00 - 01:00
Thursday: 16:00 - 01:00
Friday: 16:00 - 01:00
Saturday: 15:00 - 01:00
Sunday: 15:00 - 01:00
About Panda & Sons
Barber Shop themed Speakeasy. Hidden away in Edinburgh's city centre. With background music, enjoyable atmosphere and a wide ranging drinks selection!
Panda & Sons Description
Panda & Sons is in the West end of the capitals city centre. We operate as a hidden Bar under the disguise of a vintage Barber Shop. So as a hint once you see the American currency, you know you have come to the right libation destination!
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Today, some of team Panda are at Dewar's Aberfeldy Distillery learning all about it! Every day is a school day. Thanks for having us guys.
Tonight, we're one of 16 bars around the world taking part in the Seedlip Drinks pop up looking at No and Low Alcohol Serves. We're excited!! N o l o ® by Seedlip x Panda & Sons
Photos by SJS Photography.
... List of bars: London - Dandelyan Athens - The Clumsies Stockholm - Tjoget Barcelona - Paradiso Amsterdam - Flying Dutchmen Cocktails Edinburgh - Panda & Sons Singapore - Operation Dagger Hong Kong - The Old Man Guangzhou - Hope & Sesame Auckland - The Parasol & Swing Company Sydney - PS40 Melbourne - Black Pearl Toronto - Prettyugly Bar New York - Nitecap San Francisco - Trick Dog Los Angeles - The Walker Inn The Normandie Club
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We’re so so chuffed to be named by Tales of the Cocktail as one of the top 10 Bar Teams in Europe as well one of the top 10 High Volume Cocktail Bars in Europe!
We're very excited to be one of 16 bars around the world to take part in this project by Seedlip Drinks! Come on down and see what it's all about. It's gonna be fun!!
N o l o ® by Seedlip, the first No & Low ABV bar concept, which focuses on a drink's flavour rather than alcohol content.
Uniting the global bar scene over two successive nights, N o l o ® by Seedlip will be launching in 16 cities around the world in a selection of the very best bars, spurring an explosion of creativity within No & Low ABV drinks.
Panda and Sons will be hosting N o l o ® 24th & 25th July 2018 from 4pm- 01am.
We're super proud to say that we pay our staff the Living Wage UK! Here's a great article about why and what it means to us.
With the Four Pillars Gin #australianginopen final now less than a week away, this wee article by the ever lovely Lunch Quest: Edinburgh talks through the 3 Edinburgh based finalists and their drinks!
Have you tried Sian's 'Sweet Yarra Valley High' yet? Come and try it while you still can!
We are delighted to be nominated, for the second year in a row, as one of the top 10 international high volume cocktail bars by Tales of the Cocktail!
Go Team!!
It’s Friday! Why not come on down and celebrate with our newest special - the Sweet Yarra Valley High. Using Four Pillars, Kamm & Sons, Dessert Wine and Lemon Balm, it’s going down a treat so far!
#australianginopen
Tomorrow is World Gin Day, to celebrate, we’ve created the ‘Eiffel 65’ - a mix of Bombay Sapphire, Italicus, Suze and Cacao - a completely clear drink with beautiful blue flower ice from The Edinburgh Ice Co. Come and see us tomorrow to try it. We love this map from Bourhillustration too ❤️
Team Edinburgh (including our own Sian, Hoot’s Jemma and The Voodoo Rooms’ Lachlan) took victory at this year’s Scottish heat of Imbibe Magazine’s Shakes in the City against tough competition from Aberdeen, Glasgow and Inverness! Read all about it here...
We are loving our new aprons! Don’t the team look smart?!
Today is #chartreuseday and we’re celebrating with a ‘Last Scotch’ using Chartreuse, The Shackleton Whisky and Luxardo UK Maraschino. Happy 1605 everyone, have a great day!!!
We're delighted to be stocking the new Mr Black Spirits Amaro! If you haven't tried it yet, come on down - it's lovely on it's own or we've got this delicious special on at the moment as well...
Our fearless leader Iain will be live shortly on Mexican radio talking all about Scottish hospitality! Give it a listen...
We think a bank holiday weekend calls for a Banks Rums Punch!
Our High Society calls for Banks 5, Banks 7, lychee juice, lime juice and ginger falernum.
Happy Saturday guys!
TODAY IS THE DAY! Our boy Leon will be taking the stage at the Bacardí Legacy Global Cocktail Competition at 5pm GMT (11am Mexico City Time) Leon is representing the UK at this global cocktail competition and we couldn't be prouder of him. Come down to the bar and try his Queen Street Cocktail to support him... GOOD LUCK LEON!!!!
To watch him live, watch the stream here: https://www.facebook.com/BacardiLegacyGlo balCocktailCompet…/
It’s Friday! The weekend is here! Have you tried one of these yet? Our Leon is currently in Mexico City competing in one of the biggest cocktail competitions in the world!
Come and try his delicious cocktail this weekend and wish him luck here!!!
Right about now, in Sydney, Australia, our Jono will be making some drinks at The Barber Shop!
Panda & Sons taking over down under!!!
Sydney friends, tomorrow night, go and say hello to Jono as he fights our corner in the battle of the barber shops. It’s gonna be a fun night down under!
What an amazing surprise , won’t give it away but it’s a must when your in Edinburgh, fab drinks awesome music and lovely staff ❤️
What a place and where do I start? From the moment I walked in staff welcomed me so warmly. I immediately felt as ease. As a solo traveler I always opt to sit at the bar and water was offered quickly along with the menus. Staff are super friendly, professional, knowledgeable and warm and also observed that they enjoyed their job and colleagues !! As busy as they were they still had time to converse with me. I was entertained by watching them make the most creative concoctions of cocktails. What started as a quick one drink stop turned into 2. Only reason I left was that I was sooo hungry and didn't want to turn "hangry " I will definitely go back! My only regret is that I should have found Panda and Sons earlier part of my trip. Thank you for your hospitality �
WHAT A PLACE! I have no words for the experience I had at Panda & Sons. My jaw dropped the second I walked into the bar. I just recommend to everyone to go there and see, feel, taste and smell for themselves. I will be back again and again and again and again..
Very enjoyable evening spent here, our first night in Edinburgh too. Highly recommend a visit if you love something less mainstream, waiter service with a smile. Popcorn and complimentary water helped wash down the fabulous cocktails. Wish there was one nearer to home.
Panda and Sons is disguised as a barber shop so when I was invited by friends to go there I could pretend that I couldn't find it and stay at home eating yoghurt and watching bad tv which is what I wanted to do all along. It was my best night out ever. My friends said it was amazing though, and they would totally recommend it to everybody.
Our first night in Edinburgh here for a short a break. Had a great dinner at Gusto Italian had heard good things about Panda and sons just round the corner so decided to end the evening there. What a great find! Don’t be fooled by the outside this is a not a barbershop or hairdressers but a brilliant speakeasy style bar. Enter go down the the stairs and take part in a great experience. Good unobtrusive music, imaginative cocktails and attentive service. Plus free popcorn what’s not to like.
Had a great night here with my other half. We booked a table for drinks (no minimum spend or cons) and would recommend doing this as a busy wee bar! Service was brilliant, cocktails were lovely and music very fitting! Will Def come again!
Had a fantastic hour or so with a few theatrically made cocktails although beer is also available. The place took a bit of finding but finally twigged where it was. The staff were nice and friendly and the cocktails they produced were mega and I am not the biggest cocktail fan. The bar itself is like a prohibition bar hidden away behind a book case. Once inside there are some nice comfy seating areas and some nice background music to make you feel relaxed while swigging on copious amounts of alcohol. This will be our first port of call on our next visit to Edinburgh #cannawait.
Great place. Unique and quirky. Definitely will visit again when through in Edinburgh. Staff very friendly and attentive.
Fantastic and highly original cocktail bar with extremely friendly and welcoming staff.The Whisky cocktail under the bell jar filled with smoke was genius ! . Great couple hours spend here early Sunday evening .
Best long island Ice tea (Eclipse) I've ever had and very cozy chilled venue. Will return!
Awesome service, creative indoors and outdoors look and cocktails, super friendly waiters and hosts, we were recommended to go there and now with experience we can say, that we recommend it too!
Amazing, professional and friendly service, nice bar with really good alcohol and delicious cocktails ❤ my heart belongs to Panda & Sons 😅❤👌
Amazing place, we walked up on spec and the doorman squeezed us in at the bar until a table opened up.
We were frozen so the bar staff started us off with some hot toddy cocktails. We then started working out way through the cocktail menu.
Stayed here for about 3-4 hours and loved it.
Much better than some other cocktail bars in Edinburgh.
Absolutely loved this place, great drinks, great service!! Can’t wait to go back
Absolutely amazing place! Staff is great, and drinks...
I think it can't be any better! Love it!
Absolute wee hidden gem! My sister and I spent about four hours last night sitting at the bar working our way through the cocktail menu. The lovely bar staff were more than happy for us to sit at the bar, watch the drinks being made and ask questions too. Highlight for me was the hot toddie as I was loosing my voice, did the trick! Doorman was ace too, really friendly place full of people enjoying quality drinks. Complete opposite to some of the other pretentious bars in Edinburgh. Keep up the good work guys!
Probably would have been a good night celebrating a 50th Birthday but since balloons are not allowed, had one drink then moved on!
Well, where do i begin!!! My girlfriends and I were enjoying a weekend in Edinburgh and had been told we MUST visit this bar!! After spending a good while searching for said bar, we finally found it, with dry mouths and blistered feet! After a massive hooray, we joined the short queue, 8 of us and 3 people in front. A slight, suited and bearded creature approached the door and asked the party of 3 in front of us how many of them there were, then asked us how many was in our party, we replied 8. This arrogant personage replied to us with......."there's no way you are getting in here tonight, so "jog on" to the next place and then proceeded to turn his back on us and walk away. I ask you if this is how this member of your staff would like his mother/sister/daughter to be treated?
If I could have left a review with minus stars I would!! What a horrible, rude and demeaning way to treat people!!! I hope this person is reprimanded thoroughly and is asked to "jog on" somewhere else as he is obviously not happy in his work and his customer service skills have escaped him.
More about Panda & Sons
Tuesday: 16:00 - 01:00
Wednesday: 16:00 - 01:00
Thursday: 16:00 - 01:00
Friday: 16:00 - 01:00
Saturday: 15:00 - 01:00
Sunday: 15:00 - 01:00