The bar & restaurant above Aberdeen
A Year Above
Aberdeen
Good food · good drinks · good music · great view
Everything worth coming up the stairs for, from the lights going on to the lights going on again.
Every Sunday
Spanish Sundays
& Sunday Sessions
Sharing roasts from 1pm. Chilled records from our resident DJ from 2pm. Nobody in a hurry.
Friday & Saturday
Vinyl Nights
Records from 9pm — kept easy — under the Taittinger mirror ball, city out the window.
Thursday – Saturday
Aperitivo Hour
5–6.30pm. A spritz and something small to pick at, before the night properly starts.
The Programme
Month by month, in the order it arrives
Nov
2026
Switch-on Sunday 15th
Christmas Lights Festival
The parade comes down Union Street and finishes underneath our windows. Book a table and watch the whole thing from up here.
Fri 27th
Christmas Opens
The parade comes down Union Street and finishes underneath our windows. Book a table and watch the whole thing from up here.
Dec
2026
All Month
Christmas Parties
Sharing feasts, festive cocktails and records Thursday to Sunday. The whole room, if you want it.
Thu 31st
Hoggers
A feasting menu, then take the bells with us — fizz at midnight, groovy tunes till late, and the city lit up below.
Jan
2027
Mon 25th – Fri 29th
Burns Week
Five nights of whisky cocktails and Scottish small plates. Burns, with a Spanish accent.
Feb
2027
Thu 4th – Sun 7th
Spectra
The city’s light festival takes over the streets for four nights and we are sitting directly above it. Best seats in the city, and they go fast.
Sun 14th
San Valentino
Feasting for two, the Sunday session playing quietly in the room, and a few love songs mixed in.
Mar
2027
Sun 7th
Mother’s Day Long Lunch
The whole family round one table, nowhere else to be, and mums choosing the records.
Apr
2027
Thu 22nd
Sherry & Jamón
Downstairs in the deli from 7pm. Fino, manzanilla, and a Pata Negra leg carved in front of you.
Fri 23rd
Tanqueray Terrace
The terrace goes out for the first time this year — gin, tonic, the view, and vinyl playing until the sun finally goes.
May
2027
Sun 2nd
Margarita Fiesta
May Day weekend and the loudest Sunday of the year. Agave, margaritas, tacos meeting tapas.
Aug
2027
Miami ’85
August bank holiday weekend, and nobody is working Monday. All white, all eighties — espresso martinis and vinyl till late. Limited VIP tickets also available.
Sep
2027
Thu 30th
Taste of Spain
Downstairs in the deli — a wine flight across Spain with tapas built to match it, hosted by someone who has walked the vineyards.
Oct
2027
Sun 31st from 6:30pm
Halloween
Feasting dishes to share and the good tequila — Don Julio 1942 over ice and a paloma worth the name — records and a fair bit of theatre.
Nov
2027
Switch-on Mid Nov
And the lights come on again
Same window, same parade, one year of practice.
Come up the stairs
Tables go quickly for the lights, Hogmanay and the May Day fiesta. The rest of the year, walk in and see what is playing.