I visited Edinburgh's newest pub The Angel in Leith

Edinburgh Evening News

Evening News reporter Kevin Quinn headed along to Edinburgh’s newest pub for a pint and to check out the changes made at the former popular Wetherspoons watering hole. The Angel opened on March 31, with the Leith pub’s new owners Amber Taverns transforming the venue from a Wetherspoons with no music and one television screen, to a sports bar filled with television screens to show live football, and background music adding atmosphere to the large pub.

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00:00I headed along to Edinburgh's newest pub, the Angel and Leaf, to grab a pint and to

00:07see what changes have been made to the former Foot of the Walk pub.

00:17As you can see the pub has been transformed. The former Witherspoons pub,

00:23which had very little TV screens or music at all, now has TV screens for all the

00:31sports action that it shows, as well as music playing all the time. After enjoying

00:38my first pint at the Angel, I also had a rubber look around to see what changes

00:43have been made and the bar manager, Rebecca, took me up the stairs to see the

00:50former cinema, which is still there. She told me that the new pub took its name

00:57from the last film that was shown here at the cinema, The Trouble with Angels, shown

01:01in 1966. I then headed back downstairs to finish off my first pint at the Angel.

01:08So that's me had my first pint at the Angel in Leaf, the former Foot of the Walk pub. I have to say,

01:14what I've done to the place is great, it's a nice atmosphere about the place instead of just no music at all.

01:19So I've really enjoyed my pint here and I'll be back to the Angel.

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