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A plate of toast, eggs, beans and chips at Café 83 in Kemnay.
Aberdeenshire

Café 83

A friendly village café in Kemnay by day, with tapas nights at the end of the week.

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Café 83 is on Station Road in Kemnay, a village by the Don west of Inverurie, and by day it is the village café.

The counter is full of home-baked goodies, and the menu runs through soup, sandwiches, cakes and croissants, with freshly ground coffee.

From Thursday to Saturday evenings it turns into something else: tapas nights, with small plates, good wine and cocktails. Children eat free between 5pm and 6pm, which makes the early part of the evening a relaxed one for families.

The café has a thoughtful touch for anyone who wants a glass or two: book a tapas night in advance and it will lay on a free taxi or bus to bring guests in and take them home, for groups from two to twenty-four people within about ten miles. It makes Kemnay a good stop on a day in the Don valley, with Castle Fraser and Bennachie both close by, and Monymusk's old village a few miles up the road.

A short drive awayThe FoghouseA quiet whisky, wine and coffee bar in Inverurie with over 400 whiskies by the dram.10 min by roadSee itThe front of the Foghouse on Market Place, Inverurie.
Before you go

A café by day; tapas nights run from Thursday to Saturday, with a free taxi or bus for those who book, within about ten miles.

Where
17 Station Road, Kemnay.
Tapas nights
Thursday to Saturday evenings.
Where it is

Kemnay.

Close byAround Kemnay.
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  2. Belvoir Farm elderflower, Perelló olives, baguette and salami on a checked tableclothThe Kilted Frog Delicatessen6 miles10 min by road
  3. Marshall's restaurant, timber tables in a bright room of brick and stone.Marshall's Farm Shop6 miles10 min by road
  4. The brick front of the Garioch Heritage Centre with its tall blue doors, in the old locomotive works.Garioch Heritage CentreThe story of the north-east told in a converted building of the old Inverurie locomotive works.6 miles12 min by road
  5. People outside the Forest Farm organic store, a photograph of another place filed under the Lighthouse.Forest Farm Organic Dairy7 miles10 min by road
Directions
Weathered standing stones in a circle overlooking fields and distant hillsAttractionsEast Aquhorthies Stone Circle3.0 miles over the water
The front of the Foghouse on Market Place, Inverurie.BarsThe Foghouse5.8 miles
Carved stone panels and fragments laid along a shelf against the rubble wall of Kinkell Church.AttractionsKinkell Church6.8 miles
The Brandsbutt Stone, pieced back together, its symbols and line of Ogham on the grey whinstone.AttractionsThe Brandsbutt Stone6.8 miles
The cone of the Mither Tap rising above forest and fields.AttractionsBennachie6.9 miles
Dreamy Goat Coffee's white cottage front on North Street, Inverurie.CafeDreamy Goat Coffee Co.7.0 miles
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The tall red granite Maiden Stone under Bennachie, its carving worn by weather.AttractionsThe Maiden Stone10 miles
Stay nearby

Places to stay near Café 83, and when each is next free.

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Free 2–4 NovA stone farmhouse with a gabled dormer window sits behind a timber picket fence, trees shading the drive.Home Farm
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