The Best Restaurants Near Amuse by Kevin Dalgleish, by the Record

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A brightly painted bottle shop and restaurant tucked just off Aberdeen's main drag, with an all-Italian wine list and sharing plates that roam a little beyond the boot. The menu is short and affordable, the food punches with hearty, well-matched flavours, and the team knows the wine well enough to make ordering feel easy. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which around here counts for something.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Wood panelling, simple tables, and a menu built around pommes anna and crème brûlée: Café Bohème wears its French bistro look without irony. Tucked down a city centre side street in Aberdeen, it's the kind of place where the classics are taken seriously but the kitchen doesn't stop there, folding in enough modern technique to keep things from feeling like a museum piece. The team runs it with evident warmth.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A family restaurant in a small Angus village where one family member cooks and another works the room, and the arrangement has been going long enough that it feels like a calling rather than a business plan. The cooking is modern Scottish, technically confident, and leans hard on local produce. Five bedrooms mean you can stay the night, which, given the distance from anywhere, is the sensible move.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant