99 Bar and Kitchen, Aberdeen

The week before last Ben and I went out for dinner with our flatmates. Now I'm always excited for a meal out, but this time I was particularly excited, because this was where I'd been promised to be taken for Valentines Day, but plans (*cough* badminton match *cough*) changed, and it took us until July to get to the same place! 

I am delighted to say that 99 Bar and Kitchen was absolutely worth the wait! We started out with cocktails for the girls, gin for Anna and rum for me. I'll be honest, the way they looked would have been enough to impress me (such a pushover for cute) but they completely followed through with the taste.

We were just as happy when the food arrived. We shared nachos piled high with cheese and homemade salsa, with guac and sour cream on the side. The salsa was the highlight, simply because it was so fresh.

The mains were just as delicious, and equally as well presented, as the cocktails. We particularly enjoyed the homemade tomato sauce in the teeny tiny mason jars!  At the table there were two beef burgers, one veggie burger and one steak sandwich.

We had a veggie burger, two beef burgers and a steak sandwich at the table. The burgers definitely had the edge on the steak sandwich, except in one small factor - the sides. The steak sandwich came with vegetable crisps, which were homemade, and absolutely to die for! I'm a little bit addicted to Tyrells vegetable crisps, and I really just expected a pile of those (and probably would have been relatively happy), but the homemade ones were really something else. I think I'm going to have to look into making them myself.

Close up of the crisps!

We finished off with sticky toffee pudding, and even more cocktails. Pleasingly, my last cocktail could have come straight off a valentines day menu!

You can find 99 Bar and Kitchen at 1, Back Wynd, Aberdeen, and they have lots more information on their website just here. If you're ever in the Frozen North I highly recommend it, even if it's just for a drink. The staff are really friendly, they have their own menu of special cocktails, but will also make you anything you can dream of. Perfection!