Restaurants in Aberdeenshire & Moray
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Foyer
A light, airy space filled with blond wood and bold colours, Foyer is an art gallery as well as a restaurant and is run by a charity that fights youth homelessness and unemployment. The seasonal menu is a fusion of Scottish, Mediterranean and Asian influences, with lots of good vegetarian (and gluten- or dairy-free) options.
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Howie's
A chic bistro dishing up great-value 'modern Scottish' cuisine accompanied by very reasonably priced house wine. Two-/three-course dinner £18/20.
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Rendezvous@Nargile
A stylish West End venue specialising in Turkish cuisine. There are tasty spreads of mezes – shakshuka (a blend of roast peppers, tomatoes, aubergines and chilli), djadjik (yoghurt with garlic and cucumber) and sigara boregi (cheese pastries), for example – followed by delicious, melt-in-the-mouth kebabs and marinated meats, and vegetarian dishes such as mantar guvec (casserole of button mushrooms in creamy sauce with a cheese-and-couscous crust).
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Sand Dollar Café
A cut above your usual seaside cafe – on sunny days you can sit at the wooden tables outside and share a bottle of chilled white wine, and there's a tempting menu that includes pancakes with maple syrup, homemade burgers and chocolate brownie with Orkney ice cream. An evening bistro menu (mains £12 to £24, served from 6pm Thursday to Saturday) offers steak and seafood dishes. The cafe is on the esplanade, 800m northeast of the city centre.
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Silver Darling
The Silver Darling (an old Scottish nickname for herring) is housed in a former Customs office at the entrance to Aberdeen harbour, with picture windows overlooking the sea. Here you can enjoy fresh Scottish seafood prepared by a top French chef while you watch the porpoises playing in the harbour mouth. Bookings are recommended.
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Musa Art Cafe
The bright paintings on the walls match the vibrant furnishings and smart gastronomic creations at this great cafe-restaurant, set in a former church. As well as a menu that focuses on quality local produce cooked in a quirky way – think haggis-and-coriander spring rolls with chilli jam – there are Brewdog beers from Fraserburgh, and interesting music, sometimes live.
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Café 52
This little haven of laid-back industrial chic – a high, narrow space lined with bare stonework, rough plaster and exposed ventilation ducts – serves some of the finest and most inventive cuisine in the northeast. Try starters such as baked black pudding with wine-poached pear, or mains like beef casserole with red wine and Moroccan spices.
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Moonfish Café
The menu of this funky little eatery tucked away on a back street concentrates on good quality Scottish produce cooked with an international flair that draws its influences from cuisines all around the world, from simple smoked haddock with pea risotto, to nut-crusted skate wing with Peruvian potatoes (with chilli, onion and hard-boiled egg).
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Ashvale Fish Restaurant
This is the flagship, 200-seat branch of the Ashvale, an award-winning fish-and-chip restaurant famed for its quality haddock. The Ashvale Whale – a 1lb fish fillet in batter (£12.75) – is a speciality; finish it off and you get a second one free (as if you'd want one by then!). There are branches in Elgin and Brechin. It's 300m southwest of the west end of Union St.
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Beautiful Mountain
This cosy cafe is squeezed into a couple of tiny rooms (seating upstairs), but serves all-day breakfasts and tasty sandwiches (smoked salmon, Thai chicken, pastrami) on sourdough, bagels, ciabatta and lots of other breads, along with exquisite espresso and consummate cappuccino. It's also open for dinner Thursday to Saturday, when the menu changes to tapas.
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Carmine’s
Cosy little Carmine’s is famed for good, inexpensive Italian food, including the best pizza in town; the lunch deal is available Monday to Friday only. No licence, so BYOB, and best to book; the place seats only 16 people.
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Harbour Restaurant
Harbour Restaurant is a hidden gem, a tiny place overlooking Gardenstown harbour serving superbly prepared seafood; if the weather’s looking good book early and grab a table on the little outdoor terrace.
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Gathering Place
This bright and breezy bistro is an unexpected corner of culinary excellence, with a welcoming dining room and sunny conservatory, tucked below the main road junction at the entrance to Braemar village.
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Victoria Restaurant
The Victoria, above the Jamieson & Carry jewellery shop, is a traditional, posh Scottish tearoom, with delicious fresh soups, salads and sandwiches. Breakfast served till 11.30am.
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La Caverna
A good place for coffee and cake or a light lunch, La Caverna is a stone-vaulted Italian cafe and restaurant – the outdoor tables have a view of the beach.
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Poldino's
Poldino's is a long-established Aberdeen eatery – an upmarket Italian family restaurant that never fails to impress with the quality of its food and service.
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Harbour Tearooms
Good places for coffee and cake or a light lunch include the Harbour Tearooms, overlooking the marina
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Taste
Taste is a relaxed little cafe with armchairs in the window, serving soups, snacks, coffee and cakes.
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Kimberley Inn
The Kimberley Inn gives good bar meals.
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Hungry Highlander
Serves a range of takeaway meals and hot drinks.
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Granite Park
This smart new restaurant is the talk of the town, taking Scottish favourites such as venison, haddock and smoked salmon and giving them an Asian or Mediterranean twist. Best to book.
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Fusion
This chic and trendy bar-bistro in the upmarket Golden Square district has a menu that is true to its name, blending Scottish west-coast mussels with creamy curry sauce and onion bread, and giving slow-roast pork belly the French-Spanish treatment by serving it with cassoulet and garnishing with chorizo and Serrano ham.
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Coffee House
A bright and appealing cafe with long refectory tables and benches, serving sandwiches on organic bread, soups, herbal teas and great cappuccinos.
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Black-Faced Sheep
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