Café Habana

Café Habana sits right next door to CC Blooms on Greenside Place, and for years it has been where a night on Edinburgh's Pink Triangle tends to begin. It is small, loud in the best way, and the DJs run seven nights a week — good-value drinks, pop and party anthems, and a crowd that spills happily onto the pavement in summer. Think of it as the warm-up bar before the club, though plenty of regulars never make it any further.