treacle, Edinburgh

The chicken and smoked bacon pie is perfect for a cold Scottish day!

After reading a few great reviews of Treacle in various newspapers and online, I decided to check it out myself. Wow this place does not disappoint! Firstly, the interior is amazing! There is a huge Japanese cartoon mural of the last supper which is very cool and unusual and gives the bar a fun vibe. When I went along, you could tell that this was a place to have a good time and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves. The menu features dishes like king prawn noodles (which were delicious) along with great looking burgers and sharing platters.

The cocktail menu is definitely one of the best things about Treacle and they have specially created cocktails for girls. I had the Peach Daisy which was fruity but just the right amount of alcohol. Some of my friends had the low calorie cocktails which were on offer at the time.

Overall, I’m sure I will be back. I want to try more of those cocktails!

Just realised that this place isn’t as good as it used to be. The prices are pretty hefty and the staff are almost useless, especially on a friday night, when it is difficult to get served.

Friendly staff, great cocktails, outstanding food for modest bar prices, cool decor with a manga flavour.

One of the best bars in Edinburgh to go to: stylish, but with a chilled ambience and minus exhorbitant prices or pretension.

I visited Treacle for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I was seriously impressed with what I found.

I’m not sure if it was just luck but we had two different waiters and they were probably the friendliest staff I have ever met. Ever.

Despite there being quite a varied menu, all three of us ordered from the ‘Pub Classics’ menu (we’d been in the pub all day); steak pie w/chips, chicken & bacon pie w/chips & fish & chips (I know, outlandish choices).

Our food was brought out in good time and I think quirky is the word I would choose to describe how Treacle serves their food: wooden boards instead of plates, chips in a little silver pencil can etc. In other words, awesome (we also noticed people who had ordered some chinese food which was brought out to them in a cardboard takeaway box on a wooden board!). The food was really tasty and was exactly what we were looking for.

Afterwards, we chilled out and had a couple of cocktails/beers which were really very good. Again, the waiter was very helpful in informing our choices!

The atmosphere in Treacle was really nice and there was a bit of a ‘buzz’ with a mixture of clientèle; which I think is a good sign.

All in all, we had a really great couple of hours in here and I would seriously recommend taking the time to visit this place.

5 badger stars.

I saw the bartender from Treacle on STV's The Hour Show making a delicious looking deep fried jam sandwich and jam based cocktails. I had been to Treacle before and really enjoyed it so I decided to go back to try the deep fried jam sandwich.

I went along on a Friday night with a few friends and the place was so busy! It's obviously a popular spot. However, the staff made time for us and seated us on the upper level with the cool animation mural. We ordered some sharing platters which included crispy coconut chicken, bbq spare ribs, shredded duck spring rolls and home cut chips. Everything was great and we polished it all off in record time.

As it was Friday night, we decided to indulge in cocktails. The staff were great and recommended some great cocktails for us. I had to have the Louisiana Jam Cocktail since I had seen it on the STV show. I loved my jam cocktail and the girls all loved their choices too. The cocktail list is huge and the staff and always happy to talk you through it and are very friendly.

We had to end with the deep fried jam sandwich and it really was worth the wait. It tasted like the most delicious do-nut and we all wolfed it down.

Treacle is a fab place to go for lunch, dinner and drinks with the girls. It's fast becoming my favourite spot in Edinburgh.

Essentially not a lot other than the colour scheme has changed here since it took on its current persona, apart from the Friday Happy Hour that looks to have bitten the dust.

Comfy couches, good, efficient bar service and a well stocked and varied bar are the staples.

£4.50 for a large bottle of Grolsch? Pardon?

Treacle is a great spot for an evening pint or a few cocktails on a night out. I can personally recommend the cocktails; a little pricey but the selection is massive and they’re made by people who really know what they’re doing.

The decor in Treacle really separates it from your usual ‘old man’ pub, with shiny laminate flooring, brown leather seats with, wait for it, sheepskin rugs (I know, very plush!).

I’ve been in on a few occasions now and it’s a great bar for a quite mid-evening drink, or for a more lively night out on a Friday or Saturday.

Treacle is a fab newish addition to the many little treasures on Broughton street having previously been Baroque.

However, this little bar / restaurant has been transformed with so many cosy touches, from the pink ladies room with additional mirrors, to the cowskin lined window seats and long tables. What I especially love about this little treasure is the fab wooden seating area out front to maximise the whole space they are working with!

The food is fantastic, with great sized portions, the buffalo mozzarella sandwhich is heavenly, and the chips in the little pail is a stroke of rustic genius!! In winter last year they did the most amazing chorizo with merlot pie and OMG you would seell your own mother for just a forkful - it was that good!!!! Theres not even words to describe! Ive not seen it back on the menu recently but if your reading guys - get piemaking !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In short Treacle is a fab bar packed with personality, friendly service, fantastic food and prices to match!! Get yourself down there but just dont eat all the pies!

Tip : The amazing wallpaper which runs the length of one wall is depicting the last supper, which will have you staring for hours trying to work it out.

Love this bar - great food, really friendly staff and amazing cocktails. Got chatting to the bar staff and they are all so friendly and accommodating (what a change to the idiots who work on George St who are so obnoxious and arrogant)Give them a try - they deserve to be here a while. Love the decor by the way...cool and funky but still managing to be individual. Love it love it love it

I recently visited Treacle for dinner and thought it was a great place. My friends and I all had the 80z beef burger, which was delicious - especially the chips. The service was quick and friendly and the prices are very reasonable. The house white was also very pleasant. The decor is funky with a manga-style mural along one wall. My only criticism is that it’s a little cramped, but the waitress did ask the people standing around our table to move once our food was served. I will definitely be back!

This place has been open all of two days. We happened across it when seeking somewhere for lunch earlier today.

Previously home to baroque, it’s been overhauled so not a trace of the slightly overpowering purple and orange remain. Now we have funky cushions and sheepskin rugs atop the seats, delicately mirrored toilets with scented candles (in the girls toilets at least), very funky decor with a mural that turned out to be wallpaper on the full length of one wall and a strange kind of rubbery upholstered effect on the toilet door. It’s very cool in short - but in a very laid back way.

The food was great. Boyfriend had a full breakfast which kept him perfectly quiet for the duration of the eating. I had a sandwich and the nicest chips. Skin still on, properly potato-ey, plenty mayonnaise for dipping. And my ultimate test - the latte was great.

All very reasonably priced. £8.95 for the breakfast including tea or coffee. My sandwich and chips was about £6. Which I’d say was especially respectable for Broughton Street. And the staff were lovely, respectably quick. All you’d hope for in fact.

Give them a shot. They’re a very nice addition to Broughton Street. They deserve to do well.