Huge glass windows provide views of Edinburgh's old town, while the silver-topped horseshoe bar provides an impressive internal focal point.

This late-19th-century Victorian pub is spectacularly decorated with a riot of fine tiles, etched mirrors, plasterwork and a stunning central horseshoe bar.

In addition to a massive horseshoe bar, there are two large dining areas, banquet facilities and a cafeteria-style counter.

The patrons round the horseshoe bar are a lively lot.

The majority of the crowd-mostly young men and women from the adjacent corporate office district-sat at the five floating horseshoe bars.

A horseshoe bar filled the centre of the space and a broad, iron staircase led to an upper floor.

A captain led them past the crowded horseshoe bar near the front door and up the stairs to the dining room.

Those aluminum walls are also featured in the bar, an inviting room with a red back-lighted wall behind its horseshoe bar.

To do this exercise, grab hold of the horseshoe bar, bring it down to waist level, You want to create a stance to protect your back.

Probably not the only madman sitting at the crowded horseshoe bar either.