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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
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David McLean

The notorious Edinburgh pub that locals dubbed 'The Vietnam'

Now regarded as one of the city's trendiest watering holes, the highly-rated Fountain bar’s previous incarnation was once described on the Edinburgh Pub Guide as the “waiting room for Saughton”.

Prior to its transformation in the 2000s, the Fountainbridge boozer was called the Dundee Arms and over the years it earned a sorry reputation for bloody violence - and even murder.

READ MORE - Pub landlord builds giant fence to block beer garden after he was asked to leave

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