The Tam features three ales from the Borders-based Broughton Brewery,
with occasional guest beers. It
also serves a draught cider.
Contact details -
Managers Suzy Elder & Craig Bartsch
Tel. 07855 473 933
Tam o’ Shanter - Dumfries
The Tam o’ Shanter is another long-established favourite pub in Dumfries town centre. This 17th century coaching inn was established in 1630 and has featured highly in the Dumfries good beer scene for many years. It is a small traditional pub with a main bar and a couple of small quiet rooms behind.
It is a ‘homely’, comfortable wee pub, with a warming gas fire in the bar. It is very well positioned just yards off the High St. Food served from the Italian Restaurant upstairs. Well frequented by local ale drinkers who are welcoming to visitors.
"Tam o' Shanter" is a poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790. Many consider it to be one of the best examples of the narrative poem in modern European literature.
First published in 1791, it is one of Burns's longer poems, and employs a mixture of Scots and English. It tells the story of
a man who stayed too long at a public house and witnessed a
disturbing vision on his way home.
Robert Burns would most certainly have frequented the pub when he lived
in Dumfries
