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Megan Falconer Jewellery
Megan Falconer is a jeweller and silversmith who trained on the Jewellery and…
LarderThorneybank Farm Shop
Thorneybank Farm Shop at Lower Thorneybank has been run by three generations of…
RestThe Belvedere Guest House
The Belvedere Guest House on Evan Street is a family-run bed and breakfast five…
CultureBallater Gallery
The Ballater Gallery on Bridge Street opened in June 2019, the project of David…
CellarAberdeen Whisky Shop
Aberdeen Whisky Shop is an independent spirits retailer on Union Street, owned…
TableThe Captain's Table
The Captain's Table opened on Seaforth Street in 2018, when Julie and Sam…
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Brae
Chapleton of Elsick, SCO
Brae opened at 11 Hume Square in Chapelton, near Stonehaven, in the summer of 2022. Brunch runs…
Cafe Twenty One
Aberdeen, SCO
Cafe Twenty One occupies the Station Buildings on Station Road in Dyce, Aberdeen, sitting directly…
Mount
Aberdeen, SCO
Jack and Lauren run this coffee house at 6 Upperkirkgate in Aberdeen, describing what they have…
Orka Artisan Cafe & Bistro
Ballater, SCO
Set on Braemar Road in the centre of Ballater, this small cafe serves coffee, cakes, soups and…
The Bread Maker
Aberdeen, SCO
A social enterprise bakery and café at 50-52 Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, baking bread the…
The Murly Tuck Cafe
Tarves, SCO
The Murly Tuck Cafe operates from the old village school building on the square in Tarves, serving…
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Aspire Restaurant
Portsoy, SCO
Aspire Restaurant occupies the former St John the Baptist Episcopal Church on Seafield Terrace in…
Books and Beans
City Centre, Aberdeen, SCO
Fair Trade café and second-hand bookshop on Belmont Street, trading since 2003 across two floors.…
Fennel Restaurant
Inverurie, SCO
Open since 2006 on Burn Lane in Inverurie, this independent restaurant sources steaks and game from…
Finzean Farm Shop
Finzean, SCO
The Farquharsons have held the Finzean estate on Deeside since the fifteen-hundreds, which is a…
Nooks & Crannies
Fraserburgh, SCO
Nooks & Crannies is a small tea room on Cross Street in Fraserburgh run by a local family, known…
Rizza's of Huntly
Huntly, SCO
The Rizzas came to Scotland from Belmonte Castello in 1907, part of the great Italian migration…
The Bay Fish & Chips
Stonehaven, SCO
Calum Richardson opened the Bay on Stonehaven's beach promenade in 2006 with an idea that was…
The Black Faced Sheep
Aboyne, SCO
Morag Cormack runs this cafe, homeware shop, and small gallery on Ballater Road in Aboyne, a…
The Bothy
Braemar, SCO
The Bothy is the licensed cafe attached to Braemar Mountain Sports on Invercauld Road, serving…
The Captain's Table
Fraserburgh, SCO
The Captain's Table opened on Seaforth Street in 2018, when Julie and Sam Masson converted a…
The Dolphin Cafe
Peterhead, SCO
Harbourside cafe on Peterhead's fish market front serving skinless, boneless fish landed at the…
The Market Cafe
Huntly, SCO
The Market Cafe operates from a corner of Huntly Auction Mart, serving farmers, mart workers and…
Larder
AGD Duff & Partners
Bridge of Don, SCO
Mary and Alexander Duff started with a rented filleting table in 1973; fifty years on, their…
Almondine
Aberdeen city centre, SCO
Almondine trades from a small shopfront on Chapel Street in Aberdeen city centre, founded in 2011…
Barra Berries Farmshop & Kitchen
Oldmeldrum, SCO
Barra Berries sits at Barra Castle, on the B9170 between Inverurie and Oldmeldrum, on land the…
Bert Fowlie Family Butcher
Strichen, SCO
Strichen is a village of a few hundred people in the flat farmland behind Fraserburgh, and it has a…
Charles McHardy Butchers
Stonehaven, SCO
Family run since 1935 and based on Market Square in Stonehaven, this butcher sources Scotch beef…
Deeside Deli & Garden Shop
Ballater, SCO
Deeside Deli & Garden Shop has traded from 47 Bridge Street in Ballater since incorporating as…
Finzean Farm Shop
Finzean, SCO
The Farquharsons have held the Finzean estate on Deeside since the fifteen-hundreds, which is a…
Forbes Raeburn - The Family Butcher
Huntly, SCO
Forbes Raeburn has butchered beef, pork, and lamb from 7 Bogie Street in Huntly since 1963, with…
Gillies & Grant Artisan Butcher
Turriff, SCO
A high street butcher on Turriff's main street, selling beef, pork and lamb from Aberdeenshire…
H.M. Sheridan
Ballater, SCO
For the better part of forty years the Ballater butcher H.M. Sheridan held a Royal Warrant and…
Kemnay Farm Shop
Kemnay, SCO
Family-run farm shop in Kemnay stocking local seasonal fruit and vegetables, dairy, meat, home…
Kepplestone Farm Shop
Bucksburn, SCO
Kepplestone Farm Shop in Bucksburn began as an honesty box beside the farmhouse, selling eggs and…
Culture
Aberdeen Arts Centre
Aberdeen, SCO
Housed in the former North Parish Church on King Street, converted to an arts venue in 1963 and run…
Ballater Gallery
Ballater, SCO
The Ballater Gallery on Bridge Street opened in June 2019, the project of David Reid, an…
Galleryi
Inverurie, SCO
Galleryi is an art gallery and framing workshop in the Garioch Shopping Centre in Inverurie,…
Gordon Highlanders Museum
West End, SCO
Museum telling the 200-year story of the Gordon Highlanders regiment, from its 1794 formation to…
Larks Gallery
Ballater, SCO
Larks Gallery occupies a shopfront on Braemar Road in Ballater, where owner Pip Will, originally…
McEwan Gallery
Ballater, SCO
Fine art gallery near Ballater dealing in Scottish and European paintings from the 17th century to…
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses
Fraserburgh, SCO
The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses stands beside Kinnaird Head Lighthouse in Fraserburgh, the first…
Portsoy Gallery
Portsoy, SCO
Portsoy Gallery occupies an 18th-century Grade B listed building on Low Street, within the…
The Barn Banchory
Banchory, SCO
The Barn is a multi-arts venue at Burn o' Bennie outside Banchory, run by the charity Woodend Arts,…
The Black Faced Sheep
Aboyne, SCO
Morag Cormack runs this cafe, homeware shop, and small gallery on Ballater Road in Aboyne, a…
Workshop
Aberdeen Ceramics Studio
Torry, SCO
Aberdeen Ceramics Studio occupies a unit at Deemouth Business Centre in Torry, set up by a team of…
Aimi Cairns Jewellery
Banchory, SCO
Aimi Cairns began making jewellery after taking evening classes from 2006, then started her own…
Bahill Glass
Huntly, SCO
Bahill Glass is the stained glass workshop of Carol Deadman, based at Wester Newbigging near…
CeramiKer Pottery
St Katherines, SCO
Home-based studio of potter Kerry Megahy Marr, who hand-throws decorative homeware inspired by the…
Durno Pottery Studio
Durno, near Inverurie, SCO
Durno Pottery Studio occupies a unit at Gordon Court in the hamlet of Durno, a few miles from…
Grange Glass
Peterhead, SCO
Grange Glass is a fused-glass studio and shop on Back Street in Peterhead run by artist Margaret…
Iain Glennie Framing
Aberdeen, SCO
Run single-handedly from a workshop in Northcote Park, this bespoke framer became a Guild Certified…
Mearns ArtHouse
Stonehaven, SCO
Craft centre on Allardice Street in Stonehaven running stained glass, glass fusing, silver clay,…
Megan Falconer Jewellery
Craigievar, SCO
Megan Falconer is a jeweller and silversmith who trained on the Jewellery and Silversmithing degree…
Platform 22
Torphins, SCO
Owner Emma Pattullo opened this pottery studio and gallery in 2004, in the Deeside village of…
Ross Aitkenhead Cabinetmaker
Monymusk, SCO
Ross Aitkenhead works as a solo cabinetmaker from Donview Workshop near Monymusk, building hardwood…
Shennan's Ceramics
Turriff, SCO
Shennan's Ceramics is the home studio of potter Amy Shennan Pates at North Millseat near Turriff.…
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Asylum Books & Games
Aberdeen, SCO
Trading from Adelphi since 1999, this specialist shop stocks comics, graphic novels, tabletop games…
Ben Reid Garden Centre
Countesswells, SCO
Ben Reid Garden Centre on Countesswells Road traces its name to Ben Reid, who founded the firm in…
Better Read Books & Gifts
Ellon, SCO
Family-run bookshop on Ythan Terrace in Ellon, roughly three-quarters secondhand and antiquarian…
But n' Ben Books
Stonehaven, SCO
But n' Ben Books opened on Cameron Street in Stonehaven in 2025, run by owner Jane, who began her…
Ethical Gift Shop and Refillery
Huntly, SCO
The Ethical Gift Shop and Refillery has traded on Duke Street in Huntly since 2007, stocking…
Foxlane Garden Centre
Westhill, SCO
Family-run garden centre at Carnie on the edge of Westhill, serving the north-east with plants,…
Goldstar Records
Ferryhill, SCO
Goldstar Records is an independent record shop on Fonthill Road in Ferryhill, run by Reuben…
Havens Treasures
Stonehaven, SCO
Havens Treasures is a gift shop on Barclay Street in Stonehaven, founded by Euan and Rachel to give…
Inverurie Garden Centre
Inverurie, SCO
Inverurie Garden Centre traces its origins to around 1976, when Duncan Forbes established a nursery…
Kirkdale Nursery
Daviot, SCO
Six-acre plant nursery outside the village of Daviot, opened in 1989 and still run by its founder.…
Loch-Hills Plant Centre
Ellon, SCO
Loch-Hills Plant Centre, on the edge of Ellon, was established in 1996 and is run by proprietor Mrs…
Mains of Drum Garden Centre
Drumoak, SCO
Mains of Drum is a family-owned garden centre set in landscaped grounds on the A93 between…
Cellar
Aberdeen Whisky Shop
West End, SCO
Aberdeen Whisky Shop is an independent spirits retailer on Union Street, owned by Nick Sullivan,…
Brew Toon Microbrewery and Cafe Bar
Peterhead, SCO
Brew Toon is a 10-barrel microbrewery on St Peter Street in Peterhead, founded in 2017 by Cammy…
Burnside Brewery
Laurencekirk, SCO
Burnside Brewery was established in 2010 by Gary and Dave Metcalfe on an industrial unit at…
City of Aberdeen Distillery & Gin School
City Centre, SCO
Small-batch gin distillery fitted into a former railway storehouse arch beneath Aberdeen's main…
Glen Garioch Distillery
Oldmeldrum, SCO
Glen Garioch Distillery has produced single malt whisky on Distillery Road in Oldmeldrum since…
House of Elrick Gin Distillery
Newmachar, SCO
House of Elrick Gin is distilled on the grounds of the Elrick estate near Newmachar, next to the…
Lost Loch Spirits
Dess, SCO
Lost Loch Spirits is a distillery on the former site of Loch Auchlossan within Deeside Activity…
Reids Gold Brewing Company
Stonehaven, SCO
Reids Gold Brewing Company began after founder Barry Reid received a home-brew kit as a Christmas…
The Strong Water Co
Banchory, SCO
Brothers Guy and Mungo Finlayson founded The Strong Water Co in 2014 as an independent wine…
Wine Raks
Aberdeen, SCO
Trading from St Swithin Street since 1983, this independent merchant imports wine directly from…
Snug
Butchers Arms Inverurie
Inverurie, SCO
The Butchers Arms is a family-run pub on West High Street in Inverurie, trading for more than three…
Edward's Bar & Restaurant
Inverurie, SCO
Town-centre bar and restaurant in Inverurie trading since 1989, a short walk from the railway…
Elizabethan Bar & Lounge
Fraserburgh, SCO
The Elizabethan Bar & Lounge stands on Union Grove in a Fraserburgh housing estate, its mock-Tudor…
Rothie Inn
Rothienorman, SCO
Family-run village inn in Rothienorman offering a public bar, lounge bar and conservatory, plus…
Shore Inn, Portsoy
Portsoy, SCO
The Shore Inn stands on Portsoy's old harbour, in a Category C listed building recorded from the…
The Garlogie Inn
Garlogie, SCO
The Garlogie Inn is a family-run pub and restaurant on the B9119 between Aberdeen and Tarland,…
The Grill
Aberdeen, SCO
Opened as a restaurant in 1870 and converted to a bar in the 1920s, this Union Street pub has…
The Redgarth
Oldmeldrum, SCO
The Redgarth on Kirk Brae occupies a house built in 1928 by local baker John Gordon. It became the…
The Square
Kintore, SCO
Formerly the Kintore Arms, this village-centre pub beside the old Town House has served the…
The Tolbooth
Ellon, SCO
The Tolbooth stands on Station Road close to Ellon's centre and bus stops, trading under Tolbooth…
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Abbey Guest House
Peterhead, SCO
Family-run guest house on Queen Street in Peterhead, within walking distance of the harbour, shops…
Crawfords Guest House
Peterhead, SCO
Crawfords Guest House occupies a former Manse on Queen Street, a five-minute walk from Peterhead…
Glenburn Guesthouse Huntly
Huntly, SCO
Glenburn Guesthouse is a small, family-run bed and breakfast on Castle Street in Huntly, a short…
Lys-Na-Greyne Country House
Aboyne, SCO
Bed and breakfast run by Garry and Joyce Welsh from their family home, a house built in 1912…
New Inn Hotel, Ellon
Ellon, SCO
The New Inn Hotel occupies a coaching inn built in 1704 on Market Street in Ellon, overlooking the…
No. 45 Guest House
Ballater, SCO
No. 45 Guest House occupies a Victorian granite house on Braemar Road in Ballater, built in the…
The Belvedere Guest House
Stonehaven, SCO
The Belvedere Guest House on Evan Street is a family-run bed and breakfast five minutes' walk from…
The Rowan Guest House
Inverurie, SCO
The Rowan Guest House is a small bed and breakfast on Constitution Street in Inverurie, offering…
Trinity Boutique B&B
Peterhead, SCO
Housed in a Victorian townhouse dating from around 1896 on Queen Street, this small guest house…
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