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Inside BEINN in Dufftown, a long room lined with white shelves of books around a table on a rug.
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BEINN Coffee & Books

A coffee shop with a bookshop behind it on Balvenie Street in Dufftown, open every day from eight.

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Welcome

On Balvenie Street in Dufftown, BEINN is two good things in one.

At the front is a coffee shop with a green-panelled counter, and behind it, through the back, a bookshop lined with white shelves that stretch the length of the room.

Visitors praise the coffee, and it makes a fine start to a day of distillery visits. The bookshop is small, but it is packed with books across many different genres, and there is a table in the middle and a rug underfoot, so it is an easy place to lose track of time.

BEINN opens every day of the week from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, so it suits an early coffee as well as a quiet browse in the afternoon.

Close bySidings CafeA cafe in railway carriages at the station.2 min by roadSee itSidings Cafe
Before you go

Open every day, 8am to 4pm, in Google's current record.

Where
6 Balvenie Street, Dufftown, AB55 4AB.
For
Coffee and books.
Open
Daily from 8am.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
8am–4pm
Tuesday
8am–4pm
Wednesday
8am–4pm
Thursday
8am–4pm
Friday
8am–4pm
Saturday
8am–4pm
Sunday
8am–4pm
Where it is

On Balvenie Street in Dufftown, AB55 4AB.

Close byDufftown.
  1. DufftownDufftownThe whisky town around it.Under a mile1 min by road
  2. Glenfiddich DistilleryGlenfiddich DistilleryThe distillery on the edge of town.Under a mile3 min by road
  3. Dufftown station sign mounted on a wooden shed with railway carriage alongsideThe Keith & Dufftown Railway1 mile2 min by road
  4. Ruined stone castle atop a grassy mound beneath a cloudy skyAuchindoun CastleThe lonely ruin of a 1400s stronghold high on a hill above the glen near Dufftown, free to wander.3 miles5 min by road
  5. Speyside CooperageSpeyside CooperageA working cooperage near Craigellachie, making and mending whisky casks since 1947, with a viewing gallery above the coopers at work.4 miles6 min by road
Directions
Sidings Cafe, MorayshireRestaurantsSidings Cafe0.9 miles
The Fiddichside Inn's name is painted in red across its whitewashed chimney gable.BarsThe Fiddichside Inn4.7 miles
A cast-iron arched bridge with castellated stone towers spans a rocky river gorge, pine-covered cliffs rising on the far bank.AttractionsCraigellachie4.8 miles
Concrete trig point overlooking layered hills at sunsetWalksBen Rinnes5.9 miles
War memorial with poppy wreaths in front of a stone church towerRestaurantsAberlour Hotel6.2 miles
Cardhu distillery building with pagoda roofs and red door under grey skyAttractionsCardhu Distillery12 miles
Long spinning frame with wound bobbins fills a stone-walled mill roomRestaurantsKnockando Woolmill13 miles
The Inveravon Pictish stones in their lit porch at the church, grey slabs carved with an eagle, discs and a crescent.AttractionsInveravon Pictish Stones13 miles
Turreted grey castle with ivy-covered wing and yellow flag against a blue skyAttractionsBallindalloch Castle and Gardens14 miles
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