Aberdeen Restaurants

Whether nouvelle cuisine, a regional delicacy, Indian or fast food is on your menu, Aberdeen caters for every palate. As a multi-ethnic city, all international tastes are represented, including Italian, French, Chinese, Thai, Greek and Turkish fare. Aberdeen is even home to the only Hungarian restaurant in Scotland, and has gained a reputation as featuring first-rate European cuisine.

Local cuisine

The hearty nature of many time-honoured dishes means a diet rich in fats and meats. Traditional dishes exist alongside international fare brought in by immigration and a Scottish public keen to try new food. Aberdeen-Angus beef is an original breed developed in Scotland and the term is still used in the United Kingdom. Cock-a-leekie soup is a Scottish soup dish made of leeks, potatoes and chicken stock. Black pudding, blood sausage or blood pudding is a sausage made by cooking animal blood with meat, fat or other filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. A Scotch egg is a snack made of a cold, hard-boiled egg removed from its shell, wrapped in a sausage meat mixture, coated in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. Breakfasts sometimes include butteries, little round pancakes served with butter and jam.

Where to eat

The bulk of Aberdeens restaurants can be found on or just off Union Street in the city centre. A number of eateries catering to the business community are located in the West-End. Try the charming tea rooms and get your dinner from every continent around the world: Thai to Mexican to Hungarian to Italian.