{"id":65148,"date":"2025-05-01T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/65148\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:05:10","slug":"edinburgh-alcohol-shop-granted-permission-to-fit-seating-area-after-14-month-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/65148\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh alcohol shop granted permission to fit seating area after 14-month battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Leith Bottle Shop<\/a> has been granted permission to fit a seating area in their premises.<\/p>\n

The Licensing Board<\/a> granted a license following a 14-month battle which saw the owners of the shop sit in front of the board on three occasions.<\/p>\n

Thirsty Leithers will be able to get a cold pint at a -pop-up’<\/a> in a few weeks with the owners also planning on installing a cellar in early 2026.<\/p>\n

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Leith Bottle Shop offers a range of locally sourced and unique products including craft beer which is produced in the surrounding neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

Alex Harriss, owner of Leith Bottle Shop said: \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have finally been given the go ahead to allow our customers to sit in for a drink as well as offering takeaway. Leith has a fantastic range of craft beer on offer, and we hope we can play just a small part in helping make Leith the place to go for beer lovers in Scotland.<\/p>\n

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“We\u2019re confident that this change will help financially sustain the business so we can continue to offer a place for people to try the incredible beer coming from Leith. We\u2019re so grateful for our loyal customers for supporting us along the way, in particular those who submitted letters of support to the Licensing Board.<\/p>\n

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A free tasting event at the shop.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re also thankful for the support offered by Councillor Adam Nols-McVey and Ben Macpherson MSP who supported through this long process \u2013 Licensing in Edinburgh certainly isn\u2019t easy!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Leith Bottle Shop opened at 30 Great Junction Street in May 2022 and sells over 450 different craft beers, wines and local spirits, with a continually rotating range.<\/p>\n

Leith has the densest concentration of breweries of anywhere in Scotland with nationally renowned breweries including Newbarns, Pilot and Campervan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leith Bottle Shop has been granted permission to fit a seating area in their premises. The Licensing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[33359,748,33362,1102,4884,33361,712,33360,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-65148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-bottle-shop","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-craft-beer","11":"tag-edinburgh","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-licensing-board","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-seating-area","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114431546351721404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}