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The pub’s story
Roxy Lanes Rose Street is a purpose-made competitive-socialising venue, not a historic bowling alley. The Roxy group says it was founded in 2013, opened its first Roxy Lanes branch in 2014, and brought the format to Edinburgh in November 2022 as its first venue outside England. City planning records show the Rose Street site was being prepared that year; contemporary local coverage dated its opening to 18 November. Today the basement venue combines ten-pin and duck-pin bowling with karaoke, shuffleboard, pool, ice-free curling and beer pong. It is best understood as a recent, games-led conversion in Rose Street’s long hospitality strip: choose it for an activity as much as a drink. The operator’s current information is the appropriate source for access and operating details, while planning and local reporting anchor the opening chronology.
What to notice
- 01
This is a basement-level venue; the operator currently warns that its lift is out of order, so check access needs before travelling.
- 02
Book a game in advance for busy evenings. Drinks are secondary to timed activities here.
- 03
The official venue page says its Google business listing carries the most up-to-date operational information; check it for exceptional hours.
The time rail
The building, the pub and its interior may date from different periods. The timeline keeps documented dates separate from tradition.
Roxy’s operator dates the founding of the group to 2013.
The operator dates the first Roxy Lanes venue to 2014, establishing the games-led branch format later used in Edinburgh.
City planning reference 22/02861/ADV records proposed fascia and projecting signage for Roxy Lanes at 26 Rose Street.
Contemporary Edinburgh coverage reported the opening of Roxy Lanes at 26 Rose Street as the group’s first Scottish venue.
The operator lists the Rose Street venue’s current basement games offer, including bowling, karaoke, shuffleboard, pool, curling and beer pong.
Sources & confidence
Roxy Leisure’s Rose Street page establishes the current 26 Rose Street venue, its games, food, drinks, published opening hours and telephone. The Food Standards Agency record independently corroborates the current food-and-drink premises. This profile makes no claim of historic pub continuity or heritage interior.
Research reviewed
- Roxy Lanes Edinburgh Rose StreetRoxy Leisureofficial
SupportsCurrent 26 Rose Street location, basement setting, games offer, access notice and weekly opening hours.
- About UsProfessionals at Play / Roxy Leisureofficial
SupportsOperator’s 2013 founding, the 2014 first Roxy Lanes opening and November 2022 Edinburgh first-outside-England chronology.
- Roxy Lanes Rose Street, EdinburghForever Edinburgheditorial
SupportsCurrent city-destination listing of the Edinburgh venue and its games-led visitor offer.
- Roxy Lanes arrives in EdinburghSecret Edinburgheditorial
SupportsContemporary local coverage dating the Rose Street opening to 18 November 2022.
- Roxy Lanes signage application 22/02861/ADVCity of Edinburgh Council planning recordgovernment
Supports2022 proposed-site advertising application at 26 Rose Street.
- Economic Needs Study: LeisureCity of Edinburgh Councilgovernment
SupportsIndependent council description of Roxy Lanes’ competitive-socialising activities.
