Bye bye festival. You were fun but it couldn’t last forever.

All those late nights were taking their toll.

Happily, there are plenty of more sedate pleasures to be enjoyed in the capital over the next few months.

Promising to launch this month is Smith & Gertrude on Hamilton Place in Stockbridge. Their 100-strong wine list is matched with an equally impressive cheese list.

We’re willing to test this but apparently man cannot live by cheese and wine alone.

Smith & Gertrude are getting around this by also offering craft beers, small batch gin and sausage rolls.

Which pretty much covers all the major food groups as far as we’re concerned.

Beer and a trim

Cheese and wine is a familiar and much loved combo but an imminent Edinburgh bar plans to offer a rather less conventional pairing – booze and barber’s chairs.

The Whistle Stop Barber Shop is a bar and diner which aims to launch on the former Rascals site on South Bridge.

The ground floor bar will be all booths, beers and regional American dishes like chowders and lobster rolls.

The downstairs basement area will have two fully functional barber’s chairs to be used in the occasional hairdressing pop-up.

I’ll have an Old Fashioned and a short back and sides, please.

Hold the front page

On George Street, the old Tempus bar restaurant in the George Hotel has long gone.

In its place will be The Printing Press Bar and Kitchen which is scheduled to open in October.

We would love to tell you more but they are being very secret squirrel about it all.

Our final nugget is not a restaurant but is very welcome anyway. Stramash is a new music venue which is taking shape in Wilkie House on the Cowgate.

Word is that the 900 capacity venue will open on 17th September with a three band line-up featuring Sea Bass Kid, Safehouse and Mad Ferret.