Grill

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Aberdeen & Grampian - Aberdeen

Three star - A pub interior of exceptional national historic importance

Listed Status: B

213 Union Street
Aberdeen
AB11 6BA

Tel: (01224) 583563

Email: info@thegrillaberdeen.co.uk

Website http://www.thegrillaberdeen.co.uk

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thegrillaberdeen

Real Ale: Yes

Nearby Station: Aberdeen

Station Distance: 400m

Public Transport: Near Railway Station (Aberdeen) and Bus Stop

Bus: Yes

View on: Whatpub

A beautifully appointed pub lies behind an austere exterior in an early 1830s grey granite terrace. It was a restaurant from the 1870s but was turned into a pub in the early 20th century. Having been acquired by a Mr John Innes in 1925, it was refitted the following year under architects Jenkins & Marr. This mainly stand-up bar retains its very fine fittings from that time including a wonderful long mahogany gantry with three glazed cabinets, made, like all the woodwork, by a Mr G. Fordyce of Archibalds. The counter carries the letter ‘G’ along its various sections and has a continuous brass match-striker from the good(!) old days of smoke-filled pubs. The walls are covered in mahogany veneer and the tables, with cast-iron bases, are inscribed with the name of the pub. The plasterwork ceilings are striking with a huge oval at the front and a circular feature at the rear, the craftsmen responsible being named as Messrs R.Watt and G. McGilvery. This was a gents-only bar until the Sex Discrimination Act came into force on 1 January 1976 and ladies’ did not get their toilet until as late as 1998 when the gents’ underwent a sex-change.
Occupying the ground floor of a typical grey granite three-storey terrace property of the early 1830s, this was a restaurant and dining rooms from the 1870s. It retained the name of The Grill when remodelled by architects Jenkins & Marr, and turned into a pub in 1926. The mainly stand-up bar retains its fittings of that date, including a fine mahogany gantry with three glazed cabinets. The pub has two ceiling sections with moulded plasterwork - the front, oval in shape; the rear, circular. The long bar counter has a number of badged sections on the front each with a letter 'G' and a brass match-striker all along it. The walls are covered in mahogany veneer and the tables with cast-iron bases are inscribed 'The Grill'.

As this was a strictly men-only bar until the Sex Discrimination Act came into force on 1 January 1976, there was no ladies' toilet until 1998 when new gents' facilities were added downstairs and the former gents' WC revamped into the ladies'. (The nearby Bridge Bar, another 'men-only' bar, still has no ladies' toilet and there is a sign on the door to warn customers of this fact!). The Grill carries over 300 single malt Scottish whiskies on sale - ask for the informative menu.
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