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Ma Cameron's on Little Belmont Street, a granite front with window boxes, lanterns and its name over the door.
Aberdeen

Ma Cameron's

Aberdeen's oldest pub, on Little Belmont Street, with a snug bar dating from the 1700s, cask ales, pub food and a rooftop beer garden.

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On Little Belmont Street, a narrow lane beside the Kirk of St Nicholas, stands a low granite building with window boxes and lanterns by the door.

This is Ma Cameron's, and it is the oldest pub in Aberdeen.

The snug bar at the front opened in the 1700s, when the building was a coaching inn, and it still feels like it: a small room made for a quiet pint. Behind it the pub opens out into bigger bars, and up top there is a rooftop beer garden for the sunny days. The name comes from Amelia Cameron, known to everyone as Ma, who ran the pub in the 1930s.

There are cask ales at the bar and a menu of pub classics, from burgers and fish and chips to steak pie. The pub opens every day from eleven in the morning until late.

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Open every day from 11am until midnight, and until 1am on Friday and Saturday, in Google's current record.

Where
Little Belmont Street, AB10 1JG.
Snug bar
18th century.
Open
Daily from 11am.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
11am–midnight
Tuesday
11am–midnight
Wednesday
11am–midnight
Thursday
11am–midnight
Friday
11am–1am
Saturday
11am–1am
Sunday
11am–midnight

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Where it is

On Little Belmont Street, off Belmont Street in the centre of Aberdeen, AB10 1JG.

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  4. Aberdeen Art GalleryAberdeen Art GalleryArt up the hill.Under a mile 1 min by road
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