The Tron

The Tron is a cool place in a great location, accessible to both the student crowd and the tourist crowd on the Royal Mile. Prices are generally good, but be careful what you order. Belhaven Best is a decent £2.70, but I was astounded to pay £4.85 for a Guinness! (Compared to € 4 in my hometown in Ireland).
There is a lot of space in the Tron, as it comprises both an upstairs and downstairs section. I’ve been for drinks many times, but also for lunch a few times, as there’s a decent food menu, and prices are good. You can get a burger and pint in a very good deal, and the food is decent quality.
One pleasant memory for me is when a group of us went and one by one, quite a few of us tried to win a teddy bear from one of those claw machines (not sure what the correct term is). That provided endless fun for us drunk students, and goodness knows how much money was spent, but we did win one!
Recommended. :)

I went to the Tron for the first time with the intention of going to their pub quiz, but due to the fact that I’m mentally approaching the «older than dirt» line and the Tron’s quiz starts at the witching hour (9 PM), dinner and drinks was all I can safely remark upon today. Despite that, I feel pretty solid about the Tron. All it takes is a good deal and some good food, and Clarissa is a very happy girl indeed!
I’d heard noises about the Tron being a student-​centered affair, and I could totally see why. The place itself is pretty sizeable but nothing inherently fancy or unique, it’s just a good ol’ standard waterin’ hole. What the Tron does have going for it is its deals – what better way to lure in students than by dangling a deal that includes alcohol+dinner? Regardless of who it was intended for, I took the bait hook, line, and sinker, and was all the merrier for it. Currently you can get a burger (for me, a veggie buggah), fries, and your choice of an assortment of drinks such as certain brews, gin and tonics, or some liquors all for the low, low price of 5.99. Because I ramped mine up a notch by adding some frills (pepper jack and curly fries) I was still nodding my head in approval when I saw that my total came to roughly 7 pounds. A veggie burger with cheese, curly fries, and a gin and tonic for that? HELLS YEAH! My thrifty, not-​so-​long-​ago uni heart thrilled at this.
I was even more impressed when my sweet potato veggie burger turned out to be pretty damned good, as well as the curly fries (but can you truly go wrong there?). I spent the rest of my evening out blatantly eyeballing the surprisingly extensive dessert menu, which ALSO offers a deal, this one a buy one get one special. As I was full to the rafters after my buggah though, I had to pass on that particular temptation.
Just as the cherry on top for my solid tip of the hat to the Tron, it’s also worth mention that our service on the downstairs section was made even better by some good banter and very pleasant service from the bartender, who was just all around a cool dudette. You go girl. Keep doing yer thing!
Not bad, Tron. Not bad at all. I’ll certainly be back. How could I pass up on deals like that?!

The Tron looked like a great spot for a pub lunch, and was just off the Royal Mile. When we got inside, the place felt kind of dirty. The barmaid wasn’t very friendly. They weren’t busy at all, but somehow food took an exceptionally long time anyway.
I really wanted their Wild Boar and Chorizo Burger, but sadly they were out. I had to settle for Haddock and Chips, which also came with mashed peas for some ungodly reason. The fish seemed more frozen than fresh. It was kind of tough and a bit fishy tasting. The batter was good at least, so that’s something.
My wife got their tomato basil soup, which was chunky as opposed to creamy. I didn’t taste it myself, but she said it was like Chef Boy-​R-​Dee tomato sauce.
Needless to say, we left a lot of our meal uneaten.

15 years ago The Tron Ceilidh House was a unique pub with dark corners and torture equipment hanging off some of the walls. In the years since it’s gone through a cycle or two of renovations, doing its best to capture the student, sport, boozy and tourist markets. It sits in the middle of the city and does what it does with good humour and character. The pub is only a short stumble from the City Café and the Advocate — so if you can’t get a table in the former and can’t face the latter you might have found a reasonable compromise here.
The pub’s on three levels: ground floor captures some passing trade but isn’t too big; the middle level is the largest, extending under the road; down the bottom you’ll find a performance area that gets used during the Fringe. Sadly the torture kit doesn’t appear to have survived the renovations, but maybe it’s in a box somewhere for special occasions.

A great pub with a decent selection of beers and drinks at reasonable prices.
I remember specifically one of the things I came here that there was karaōke? And that the guy was «singing» Black Sabbath? I think I’m going to chalk it up to a one time deal but it certainly made an impression on me.

Once a church, now club…
Worth ‘Open Edina’ visit!
Festival staple.

Tron. Serves it’s purpose — cheap drinks and food. If it’s the end of the month, just before pay day and you need a cheap light refreshment and standard «ok» pub grub then come along! Primarily a student venue (I felt pretty old hangin out here), current cheesy pop tunes on the boombox and cosy seating in the wee rooms off the main bar area downstairs. If you are lucky enough to have a student card you can apply for a discount card, offering money off drinks, offers vary depending on the day of the week. Location is central and everyone knows where it is, I find myself using The Tron as a navigational way of describing where things are.
Tip: Girls, mind yourself going down the stairs to the toilets in big heels! It’s steep and mind yer head… Or maybe that’s just me after a few to many drinkies?!

The Tron is conveniently located just off the Royal Mile (but not actually ON the Royal Mile, differentiating it slightly). Prices are cheap: £2.50 for a pint of Guinness, £2 for a pint of Strongbow, and 5.49 for the basic but fine burger and chips. Upstairs there is more limited seating but nice seats by the windows, and downstairs there is even more seating, making it good for couples and small groups upstairs but having the capacity to accommodate groups downstairs. The bar staff was friendly and the service was extremely quick — we had our burgers out in about 10 minutes! This is a solid a reliable pub, but not one that stands out too much and not one to write home about. Since the price is right and the location is great, I’m sure I’ll be back again at some point.

The Tron is perhaps one of the more peculiar mixing pots of Edinburgh.
A diverse selection of students, tourists, stag/​hen parties, and those that spend perhaps a bit too much of their money on booze.
Ample seating upstairs and down, The Tron is named for the Church it is close to (not the video game). Prices are student friendly, and its proximity to the cowgate means its well worth of a place to start ones drinking before one gets to the club.

Wir waren am Samstag Abend bei The Tron. Wie auch hier schon beschrieben, ist es in Schottland offenbar üblich, sich schon recht früh in der Kneipe zu treffen. Entsprechend war The Tron schon bei unserer Ankunft um 19:30 gut besucht und es wurde stetig voller: D Wir haben Fish and Chips sowie Pizza bestellt. Beides absolut lecker!
Für die Pizza galt, dass man für 5 Pfund eine Pizza + Bier bekommt. Ein super Angebot, das wir gerne in Anspruch genommen haben. Die Pizza war richtig frisch, mit knusprigem Teig und leckerem Belag.
Auch bei den Getränken gab es einige Angebote, als January Deals gab es beispielsweise das Pint Foster’s für 2,25.
Bei diesen Preisen kann man sich absolut nicht beklagen! Außerdem waren die Mitarbeiter alle wirklich nett und wir wurden schnell bedient (Bestellung auch von Essen wie immer an der Bar).
Die Musik war etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig, aber okay.
Oben kann man in Ruhe essen, unten ist die Party-​Area. Dort war es am Ende richtig voll. Offenbar wird in Schottland auch im Januar nicht geheizt, es war saukalt im unteren Teil, aber das empfinden wohl nur die Touristen so, die Schotten waren in T-​Shirts unterwegs: D
Und wie hier auch schon beschrieben: Toiletten wenig hitverdächtig, keine Seife und ein traurig röchelnder Handtrockner-​Puster. Kneipe eben

Gute Burger, junges Publikum, große Bier und Ciderauswahl. Alles in Allem gut.

You know exactly what you’re gonna get with the Tron which is a good and a bad thing.
On the plus side you’ve got cheap pints, location dead centre of town and bunch of other skint young folk to hang out with.
Negatives include the «cave like» feel to the whole place and variable food.
Every self respecting student probably has a soft spot for this place… so I say go to the Tron, start you’re night with some cheap drinks and good chat, then role on any whatever slightly more sophisticated drinking establishment takes you’re fancy.

From the get go, I wasn’t exactly impressed with this bar.
It looked promising enough as a place to start our night out but once inside, you realise they’re playing Westlife songs and their staff are needlessly rude.
After being asked for ID for the first time since moving to Edinburgh in September, the bar man who served me literally threw my change back into my hand.
When another friend joined us with no ID, the bar maid said it was ok for him to stay just not to drink. She then obviously told her colleague, who came to tell us that he couldn’t stay — to be honest I wasn’t disappointed to leave here and move on!
We had a good night in a few other Edinburgh establishments and had no trouble with anyone else’s staff.

It’s alright to come here to sink a couple of pints, but not really the place to have a long session. I normally come here to just catch up with some friends or to watch the football, rather than making it a pre-​going out pub. It’s a «Scream» owned pub so therefore is very student orientated. They have good drink prices and normally have some type of special on. Downstairs there is a pool table and a more cosy area for seating as well as a jukebox, whereas upstairs there is a quiz machine.
I come here sometimes for a bite to eat too, the burgers they sell are actually pretty sicky, I really don;t know why I don’t learn my lesson and stop buying them. In all fairness, the last time I went there, they were out of curries so couldn’t go for a curry and beer instead (which is a lot, lot better). The Burgers taste like they have just been microwaved, and the buns are made of really cheap bread that always crumble in your ands before you are finished with it. I guess you can’t really be expecting too much, because it is really very cheap, which does make up for it I guess.

I have to admit that I really like the Tron, even though I know it’s a bit rubbish really. It was better a few years ago but there is something about the cave like bar downstairs that really appeals. It is part of the scream pub chain so, like with the Crags, you know exactly what you’re getting. They have all the same drinks (a great selection downstairs but a bit more limited upstairs), itboxes, jukeboxes, pool tables and those shooting video game things (which is appalling by the way, it never ends which is normally a good thing but this is deathly dull), and a stupid game where you can win an xbox or something similar.
The atmosphere is always good fun, despite being near the centre of town you don’t get too many fights (probably because of the huge bouncers outside). Although nearly always packed, there are loads of little alcoves to hide you and your friends away in, so you are not all crammed together. The bar staff are really friendly and are lenient with the yellow card deals. Another added advantage is that unlike the Crags you don’t get big sports groups coming in and acting like arses, pissing everyone else off.
The Tron is basically an average bar, but I have always had a good night there, and with cheap booze you can’t complain too much.

If the Tron was located next to any of Edinburgh’s student accommodations I’m convinced it would be a massive hit; the fairly priced grub and drinks, comfy seating booths and laid back environment all justify this.
Unfortunately, it’s not and thus seems like a lackluster affair in the middle of a competitive area.

Ah, and here we have The Tron. If you had to do that Family Fortunes type thing where you try and guess where most people in Edinburgh would name in a top five list of the best bars to get drinks deals any night of the week, I’m fairly certain The Tron would rank pretty highly in all its thrifty glory. It ain’t pretty, but it doesn’t purport to be, it just does what it says on the walls, so you have to admire its consistent luring of punters through its doors.
Where low prices beckon, students follow, so if you want to meet a significant population of any of Edinburgh’s universities, then I suggest making this one of your first stops. Having a few cheap vodka mixers to start the night off never goes wrong though, and it is all good harmless fun. Plus it’s pretty much the gateway to the Cowgate, so everywhere you would want to head on to afterwards is nice and close by.

I’ve only ever been to The Tron on ‘failed’ nights out. Those nights where either yourself or one of your mates is not let in or thrown out of a club and so you all go on a late night pub crawl to try your luck at salvaging the night. Unfortunately we have never quite managed to salvage the night in The Tron. This can only be expected, however, and the pub is certainly the place to begin the night rather than end it.
The main area of the bar is down a flight of stairs and the atmosphere feels bustling and comfortable. Further, the drinks are cheap costing under £2 for pints which is more than reasonable in comparison to some other pubs in the area.
Although not much fun when drunk at 2am, The Tron is a vibrant and popular Scream pub which would be an ideal site to begin the night or just have a get together with friends.

The bright yellow paint on the sign let me know that this was a Scream pub, which can only mean one thing– cheap booze.
Well, cheap booze, under-​par pub grub, tatty furniture and sticky floors. But sometimes, if it’s done right, its just what you need after a hard day’s walking round the City.
It doesn’t pretend to be something it isn’t. And that’s what I like about it, unlike some of the other bars in Edinburgh which make you feel uncomfortable and almost apologetic for being there in a pair of gutties.
Grab a pint, kick back on a comfy seat and relax! That is what The Tron is all about.

The Tron is a Scream pub, which are magnets for students. This is probably to do with their winning formula of cheap pints, fully stocked bar, 2 for 1 meal deals and quiz nights. All Scream bars thus attract a throng of people after a gruelling day of studying is over, or even when a hard day of studying seems too much like hard work.
I always enjoy my time in The Tron. The bar staff are friendly, there’s usually a good atmosphere and, like most, I am attracted by their cheap booze deals. The food is decent pub fayre and the service is good, leaving no cause for complaints.
It can get mobbed at the weekends and it’s not the kind of place that’s full of Stiletto’s with a backlit bar. But it’s more laid back than a lot of places in Edinburgh, and for a pub in the student arena selling cheap booze it’s nae bad!

I love this pub. I love the fact that no matter when you go in, you can get a friendly atmosphere, have a good laugh, and really enjoy your company. I love that when I come here, I dont have to make an effort, the feeling is so relaxed and laid back. I love that this place does great food — from burgers with as many toppings as you can think of to chilli con carne and rice. I love the pub quiz here on a monday evening. I love the banter with the bar staff. I love the secluded booths and the open seating areas where you really get to know everybody.
Over all, I love this pub. It is my most favourate in Edinburgh.

This is definitely the kind of place where you drink pints, wearing tracksuit bottoms, on the days when you can’t be bothered to put makeup on. It’s certainly not a white wine spritzer or cosmo sort of place.
What’s great about this place is how cheap it is. As part of the Scream Pubs family you get drinks prices starting from as little as £1.80, and if you’re hungry then £4−5 will ensure you leave with a full tummy. There are two pool tables too, although they are quite close together which means you usually end up on both the giving and receiving end of a pool cue in the back every few minutes at least.
In the downstairs section there are also loads of tv screens for watching sport, although the awful music they play will definitely make you wish you’d stayed at home to watch the footy in your own living room: the jukebox is programmed to always play the songs that are least selected, i.e. the really awful ones that no-​one ever pays for, to make people put money into it to do everyone a favour and change the track.
And there are lots of other things that may well put you off coming here. For starters, given that it’s underground means it’s dark, dingy and generally a bit depressing. Add to this the fact that this place hasn’t seen a refurb in far too long, and you end up with a combination of dark and dreary mixed with shabby and grubby.
But the very worst thing about here is the state of the loos. Without wanting to sound high maintenance, I like my toilets to have a) loo roll and b) a lock on the door. But when you’ve spent so long queueing for one of the only 3 loos (one of which will usually be out of order) you tend to just put up with it!

Ich fand den Laden sehr nett. Auffällig fand ich dass die Schotten scheinbar allesamt etwas früher am Wochenende damit anfangen sich zu treffen und zu feiern. Um 20:00 war der Laden schon ziemlich voll, draußen passte ein Türsteher auf, dass keine Minderjährigen den Laden betreten, dennoch passte der ein oder andere höchstens fünfzehnjährige noch rein. Gegen 23:00 waren die Räumlichkeiten aber wirklich vollends ausgeschöpft. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatte ich gerad einmal 3 Pints Cider intus, es gab eine RIESEN Auswahl an Cider und Cider-​Mix-​Getränken, die Welle hat Deutschland auch noch nicht erreicht Schade fand ich, dass es kein einziges original schottisches Bier an der Bar gab, scheinbar nicht so beliebt. Traurig, dass Caledonian 80 oder wie das hieß schmeckte schön süffig
Die Musik war gemischt aber vollkommen in Ordnung, die Toilletten der letze Dreck, aber in welcher Bar sind sie das nicht.
Insgesamt ein guter Ort für einen netten Abend, auch für größere Gruppen

Der Tron hat ziemlich gute Preise und né große Cocktailauswahl. Eigentlich sind beide Sachen auch ganz lecker, aber ich hatte einen gratis Gutschein für Burger und Cocktail und wurde dann doch enttäuscht. Der Cocktail hat nach Saft mit Wasser verdünnt geschmeckt und der Burger beinhaltete nur né zähe Bullette auf verbrannten Brot. Aber meine Freunde schwören auf den Laden.

Burger, Pommes und ein Pint für 3,70 !! unschlagbar! Teilweise Cocktails für 2,50 Wodka Redbull 2,90. Sehr günstig und trotzdem lecker. Viele Fernseher für Fußballübertragung. Studentenrabatt, Billard, gute Musik, freundliche Bedienung, nur leider sind die Toiletten nicht die saubersten aber irgendwo muss man ja Abstriche machen ;)