Park Shop

It is a deli and café that knows what matters, good coffee, good pies and good cakes, and does all three well.

Charles, who runs it, stocks food and drink, local cards and prints by local artists, a Lochnagar among them. The pies are the thing, the lamb and garlic a favourite, with cakes and a morello cherry slice, and the pastries go early. There is parking, and benches out the back to drink the coffee on.

It opens early, from half past eight, from Tuesday to Sunday, and walkers and cyclists on the Deeside Way make it a stop. Drum Castle is a few minutes away, and the riverside at Park Bridge is on the doorstep.