The Wash Bar hosts a Literary Salon on the last Tuesday of each month, where you can sip wine and mingle with local literati, Master of Publishing students, Dundee Literary Festival organizers, and Giller Prize judges. Once frequented by Scottish Renaissance writers, The Oxford Bar is a favourite haunt of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus and the over-30s crowd. For a hipper Gothic pub with skulls, books, and potion bottles, head to Jekyll & Hyde for the deadly Seven Sins cocktail.