Grampian Restaurant Guide

Pizza Express - Aberdeen

Pizza Express remains a hugely popular bedrock of casual eating. Its popularity is testimony to the fact that across the country, they have restaurants where you will always be guaranteed a good nosh, with children's tastes being well catered for.

• Address: 402 Union Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1TQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £21.00

Prime Cuts - Steak and Lobster House, The

Aberdeen is the the home of Aberdeen Angus, hence at Prime Cuts you get the very best that they can find, dry aged for a minimum of 28 days; consequently, they state that they don't have steak knives as the meat is so tender and rich that they're not required! Plus they are by the North Sea, where arguably you find the best lobster in the world, put the two together and that's what they do best at Prime Cuts.

• Address: 21 Crown Terrace, Aberdeen, AB11 6HD (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Scottish, Steak
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £20.00, Dinner: £40.00

Priory Restaurant

It is appropriate that in a house set up by the Knights Templar to provide hospitality for those on their way to the Holy Land such excellent provision should continue to be made for the happiness of the inner man.

• Address: Maryculter House Hotel, South Deeside Road, Aberdeen, AB12 5GB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European, Scottish
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £41.00

Restaurant 55

Awaiting a review.

• Address: 55 High Street, Elgin, IV30 1EE (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Organic, Scottish, Restaurant
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £12.00, Dinner: £28.00

Restaurant at Aberdeen Patio Hotel

• Address: Beach Boulevard, Aberdeen, AB24 5EF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): International
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £30.00

Restaurant at Archiestown Hotel

• Address: Archiestown, nr Rothes, AB38 7QL (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Bistro, French, Scottish
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £21.00, Dinner: £38.00

Restaurant at Balgonie Country House Hotel

I find myself visibly cheered by any hotel which says that its dining room is its heart - and clearly means it. A well-presented Edwardian house on Deeside it looks every bit the part. Time was when Scotland was something of a gastronomic desert, but those days are long gone and Balgonie is well to the fore in this movement.

• Address: Braemar Place, Royal Deeside, Ballater, AB35 5NQ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern, Scottish
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £25.00, Dinner: £55.00

Restaurant at Darroch Learg

When the Monarch made it clear that Balmoral was her preferred Scottish redoubt it naturally became fashionable for others to follow suit and a veritable rash of large, comfortable and suitably baronial country houses began to appear on Deeside.

• Address: Braemar Road, Ballater, AB35 5UX (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern, Scottish
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £34.00, Dinner: £58.00

Restaurant at Glen Lui Hotel

Glen Lui is closed during February.

• Address: Invercauld Road, Ballater, AB35 5RP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Scottish
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £12.00, Dinner: £30.00

Restaurant at Invercauld Arms Hotel

• Address: Braemar, AB35 5YR (Map)
• Cuisine(s): British
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £28.00