CC Blooms
Open daily, 1pm-3am 23-24 Greenside Place, Edinburgh EH1 3AA ccblooms.co.uk
It’s a balmy Saturday night, and the streets of Edinburgh are curiously devoid of drunken partygoers. We’re sure it’s a different sight during Edinburgh Fringe — and maybe even tonight, over in New Town — but the smart, classical streets of Old Town, at least, are free of the traffic, smog and litter doubtlessly plaguing every other major UK city at this very moment. The walk back to our hotel — the chic, swish Virgin Hotels Edinburgh — is the perfect wind down after a night of cocktails at CC Blooms, Edinburgh’s best-known LGBTQ+ bar. In this city of 500,000 people, it’s sadly one of only a handful of queer bars, several of which are, like CCs, dotted…
