Public Houses: Open to the general public without membership for consumption of beer. Food may be available as an afterthought.
A recently modernised hotel painted in a light grey throughout
Everything you expect from a BrewDog pub. Situated in the former Mitchell's Dairy Restaurant, in the middle of the town next to the Town Hall.
A small but typical BrewDog pub with decoration featuring garish murals, a couple of booth seating areas and the rest is tables and chairs.
A spacious ground level bar located in the old Athenaeum building with plenty of bench seating and tables with 22 lines focusing on Scottish craft beer, worldwide guest beers and two live beer lines.
The first and original Brewdog Bar built on the site of the former Marischal Bar. Sells a rotation of BrewDog favourites and guests.
Classic, old fashioned high ceilinged bar. Once a men only bar, it still has no ladies toilet. No real ale.
Belhaven pub in the middle of town with lager and sports.
Cheerful, welcoming, town-centre local, also known as 'the Trust'. The mosaic entrance floor shows it was once the Tweedside Inn.
Bar and Indian Restaurant on a busy corner.
A traditional pub at the bottom of Holburn street beside a busy roundabout, close to Boots and Asda. Darts played.
Large, cavernous, food oriented modern pub, part of Greene King's Eating Chain. It has many different dining areas. There is an outside area for al-fresco dining and also a children's play area. Parkrun meets here on Saturday mornings after the nearby run to collate the results.
Temporarily closed for refurbishment.
Selling 2 regular beers, this large, modernised roadhouse pub mainly caters for food and families.
Pub and Restaurant
The Burnett Arms Hotel dates back to the 1800s. It boasts a number of public areas. Dining at the Burnett is flexible, enjoy a simple home cooked bar meal or a more formal approach in the Restaurant.
Takes us as you find us pub on busy junction with some Nuart on the concrete "beer garden" gate. No longer has a tie with Belhaven/Greene King.
A family owned pub in te heart of Inverurie.
Small pub and live music venue.
Pub and wine bar in heart of town.
Believed to be closed for conversion to flats (TBC).
Located on the Castlegate beside the Mercat Cross, it has a gold postbox from the Olympics outside. A basic keg-beer and lager boozer frequented by locals.
Cigars, Ale, Scotch and Coffee, the only pub we know with it's own humidor. A large range of craft beers from the wall menu. A huge range of whisky and siphon coffee also available.
Located on the Castlegate beside the Mercat Cross. A basic keg-beer and lager boozer frequented by locals but with a very strong darts team.
Converted from two adjacent buildings this large, high-ceilinged, two roomed pub has an impressive exterior giving little clue to the basic brightly lit public bar within. Strong local drinking clientele with pool and darts. No longer sells any real ale.
The Central Bar is a busy locals Pub in the Aberdeen suburb of Woodside. The Pub is busy throughout the week as it engages with the local community, with pool and darts teams playing here during the week, as well seeing customers enjoy live sport on TV.
The Cheers bar used to sell beer but stopped in 2017 due to lack of demand.
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