Edinburgh Cocktail Week

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Edinburgh Cocktail Week returns for its eighth year as the UK's leading cocktail festival, Friday 3rd - Sunday 12th October 2025. Early bird wristbands are on sale now from five pounds with no booking fees to pay.

With one of our festival wristbands you can sip on sumptuous five pound cocktails at over one hundred noted establishments across the city. Your wristband also grants you entry to our flagship Cocktail Village at Festival Square – best described as a clubhouse for cocktail lovers - open 12pm to 11pm daily (8pm close on Sundays).

Inside the Cocktail Village you will find twenty four pop-up bars serving cocktails from five pounds, with the spirited festival atmosphere further accentuated with a live music bandstand, street food, entertainment, experiential spaces and picture moments.

As we enter our eighth year, we are garnishing our Cocktail Village with a new design and many exciting updates and features:

• Twice as many five pound cocktails - all twenty four pop up bars will now offer a minimum of two five pound cocktails on their menu

• Over sixty percent more seating has been added for your comfort

• A new street-side Drinks Terrace at the front of the Cocktail Village with views of Edinburgh Castle

• A cozy new Village Pub offering draught beers and stouts, cocktails, drams and traditional serves

• A refreshed Street Food Market

• A dog-friendly policy on weekdays, Monday - Friday

• Croquet and country games each afternoon with champagne and cocktails

We look forward to welcoming you.

Please drink responsibly.