Style & Sustenance

White Horse Oyster bar Edinburgh.

- Catherine Coyle

UNTIL LAST YEAR, the White Horse was the archetypal old man’s pub, the oldest tavern left on the Royal Mile, in fact. No longer: given a £329,000 makeover by the team behind Edinburgh’s hit Chop House restaurants (you know you’re cool when you make it into a Wallpaper* City Guide), it’s now an oyster bar, its spit-and-sawdust past left firmly behind. Despite the changes, though, it remains a welcoming, laidback place; it has trendy concrete floors, matt leather banquette booths and exposed stone walls, but this is not simply another style ba