Bar Missoni

I’m going to start by saying the toilets are beautiful… and yes I agree with Sarah-Jane…very space age… cool design and very glamourous. You know you are somewhere posh when the toilets are amazing. My rasberry mule was very nice and so were the nuts on the table!

I thought this place was fine, but didn’t merit the multiple recommendations from different people that got me here. It’s hotel bar with an extensive cocktail menu and prosecco on tap. For a hotel bar, I was surprised at how decent the prices were (or maybe London has just ruined me).
The service was decent and the deco was interesting but not over-​the-​top or obnoxious in terms of trendiness. At least when I was there on a Saturday night, the clientele was more mature (median age I’d say was 45) and it was relatively calm.
I would say this place is fine, but don’t go out of your way to come here as I think it’s not that unique an experience.

Really Great cocktails though can be a bit pricy. I always feel that the bar is quite small and dark, which is such a shame. Service at busy times is a bit slow too.

While staying at Hotel Missoni I of course have to give the lounge bar a try. It seemed moderately popular with a 30s well dressed crowd over the weekend. The cocktails were well done but a bit pricey (and I live near NYC!). Service was hit or miss when they got busy… Atmosphere is pretty nice.

The Hotel Missoni Bar was a last stop after enjoying a very good evening of cocktails and dinner at The Villager across the road. We decided to pop in for a wee treat before hailing a taxi and going homeward bound.
The bar is open plan on the ground floor of the hotel. Seats are arranged around an island bar, which has entire populations of glasses available in stacks for its clientele.
My friends and I took one of the tables — three were on one side of the table, and I was in the unfortunate position of left to sit in a chair on the opposite side. It was so low I was faced with having conversations with the crotches of my mates while simultaneously squirming due to a severe lack of lumber support.
The seat was like some souped-​up Willy Wonka version of torture. Just because it’s stripey and looks cool doesn’t make it a good bet (you wouldn’t have a crooked zebra as a pet, would you?).
Anyway, let’s move on to the drinks menu. The booze was more expensive than I’d expected. One friend ordered a bellini (£8), and it arrived in a little champagne flute thimble thing. I could sneeze more bellini than what the poor girl received. One friend ordered a Pimms and lemonade, which looked lovely but there wasn’t much change from a tenner, and I, in my infinite wisdom, decided to get a half of Peroni. It was £2.50 — a fiver for a pint?! Pfft.
There was zero atmosphere — perhaps because it was later in the evening — and so I spent 25 minutes where I felt like I was drinking in space with back pain. The service was good, but to be fair I’d be expecting that when taking out a second mortgage to enjoy a thimble-​sized cocktail.
As a plus, the bar does look great. But all style and no substance doesn’t do it for me.
One bonus is the bathrooms, which are incredibly cool. You feel like a bit of a movie star when you nip in for a pee. Definitely worth adding a star for the state of the ladies’ facilities.

I have just raved about the hotel and the bar is well worth a cocktail or 2 even if you’re not staying here.

I think that the atmoshpere in here is quiet cool. The drinks are not a bad price and the service was quick!

Beautiful bar, gorgeous space, with delicious drinks and great service. And the door is manned by a guy in a Missoni print kilt. What’s better than that?

Again I fully agree with Matcheff. I went there for a drink with the wife and was duly impressed with the understated opulence of the place. it is quirky and indeed very different — the seats are weirdly comfortable and the stylized bar and the fashion magazine style lights are a feast to look at — I have uploaded some pictures of the place and yes! including the wash-​rooms. — that is like stepping into a photoshoot or filmset. I spend ages playing around with the mirrored balls and the endless features.
in all nice place — should advertise more though — The tea /​lunch is still on our agenda

There’s something very space age about the Hotel Missoni’s bar.
Located on the ground floor of the designer hotel, it has a swanky silver bar, a string of Tom Dixon mirrorball lights and lots of mysterious moon photos. There’s stools dotted around the oval bar for those that like to perch and a series of small booths and low slung chairs for those that prefer to lounge.
In the daytime, Bar Missoni is usually gently bustling with residents sipping strong coffee and wine whilst in the evening, it’s transformed into a cocktail bar with couples and groups of friends ordering mojitos and margharitas. I had a couple of bellinis one night and a mjoito the next and whilst I thought the drinks and bartenders were great, I found the prices a bit steep and the dance music too ambient.

This place is swanky, Pimms o’clock 24 hours a day.
This is effectively the bar of the Missoni Hotel which I frankly can’t afford to stay in, however I had to pop in for a drink to just generally be nosey (and make myself feel important). It’s located where the George IV Bridge meets the Royal Mile.
I’m not really sure what to say about inside — it feels like you are sitting in a showroom for some kind of sheik, slick design house. Every direction you look you see something and think to yourself that you like and resolve that one day you’ll have a house that looks like this. It’s weird that somewhere that is this cutting edge in design is in such an old part of Edinburgh, surrounded by buildings with hundreds of years of history.
Despite how stylish it looks and all of the quirky little ‘things’ there is dotted around the bar, like the lightbulb lights, it’s hard to feel comfortable in it — maybe because it is so posh or maybe because it’s inside a hotel.
I perused the menu to decide what I fancied to drink and decided to bypass the £140 Krug Champagne and have a good old fashioned lager, albeit a Peroni. It’s a beautiful bar in a beautiful hotel with a few fairly priced bar snacks and a wide range of cocktails.
If you’re stuck for ideas for how to do up your living room, pop in for a Peroni.

Prosecco on tap.
That’s all you need to know about this Missoni decorated bar, or rather what I need to know about this bar, so I could end the review here, but I’ll probably continue, because some people prioritise more things in life than where their next prosecco hit is coming from.
The Missoni label itself isn’t one to shy away from bright colours and crazy patterns, so the bar is much the same. It could look a bit much in another scenario, but because it’s Missoni, it works. Giant black and white vases tower over you as you enter the hotel, which is a pretty amazing building to start with, then the sleek looking bar awaits you, with some awesome polka dot and zig zagged seating, which is unquestionably Missoni identifiable. Fun and classy combined, with a brilliant cocktail menu, this should be high on the list if you’re wandering the old town.

When this hotel first opened, it was the talk of the town. I can thoroughly understand why! The bar is gorgeous — totally different from anywhere else in Edinburgh. Yeah there are other bars in Edinburgh that are trendy and have great style — but do they have Prosecco on tap? I think not.
I was here when it first opened, and I have to admit the uniforms are a bit questionable. But the overall experience is one that I go back to time and time again. The décor is really trendy, bathrooms are amazing and the staff are lovely. They give you peanuts too!
It’s a lovely bar in a really nice location. I have a feeling that this is going to be the place to be in Edinburgh during the festival. You heard it here first, folks

I don’t know about you but I am usually on a budget when going out. However one day some friends and I decided to spoil ourselves and head to the new Missoni Hotel of George the IV bridge. It was a Saturday night so the city was buzzing. The bar is quite swish and the decour is exactly what you expect of a place trying to be upmarket and not a pub. The clientele were of various ages but not many students– from what we could tell. What is more, the service is excellent, the waitress who served us was very friendly (which does not always happen in these places) and actually came to our table to take our order. They had a good variety of drinks, and we went for the cocktail menu– which although a bit pricey (drinks starting at 6.80pounds and going up) were very good and we got a nice selection of complimentary nuts to go with them (which also does not happen very often). We being greedy students asked if we could have some more and the waitress was great (and I think amused by us). However, the tv screens of Fashion Tv of too skinny models in absurd clothing were quite distracting, and despite its idea of trying to be a ‘lounge-​style’ place the music was far too loud to lounge around. Also, the layout was a bit odd and we were grateful to be served at our table. Taking all of this into account, this place would not be my first choice of a bar, with Edinburgh having and abundancy of choice, but the drinks are well made and interesting to choose from. It was in a sense trying hard to be swish, modern and upmarket but give it time it might accomplish these.