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 works against 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. A light lunch menu is available from 11am to 4pm.
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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 £11 to £20, 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, with picture windows overlooking the sea at the entrance to Aberdeen harbour. Here you can enjoy fresh Scottish seafood prepared by a top French chef while you watch the porpoises playing in the harbour mouth. The lunch menu offers good-value gourmet delights, such as pan-fried turbot with chorizo and herb croquette; 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 that was later used to store bananas. As well as a menu that focuses on quality local produce cooked in a quirky way – think haggis-and-coriander spring rolls with apricot chutney – 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 wild game and garlic meatloaf with spiced swede chutney, or mains like roast- cumin-and-honey pork loin with baked black pudding.
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Moonfish Café
The menu of this funky little eatery tucked away on a back street concentrates on good value French bistro fare (two-course lunch £10) such as classic French onion soup, moules-frites (mussels with fries) with saffron and Pernod cream sauce, and crisp sea bass fillet with chorizo, boudin noir (blood sausage) and salsa verde.
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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 (£10.65) – 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.
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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.
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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 the 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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