For the last word in corporate and private entertaining, the Barn & Bushel restaurant & function suite at Thainstone Centre offers you the very best in quality, service and surroundings.   The unique design and ambiance of the Barn & Bushel provides you with the facility to wine and dine your most valued clients.

The restaurant is available for private parties of 30 to 100 with menus tailor made to your requirements.

We regularly hold 'Taste of Grampian' evenings featuring the finest local produce available. Taste of Grampian operates every Saturday evening from 6.45pm onwards. Our current Taste of Grampian Menu will give you a flavour of what's on offer.

If you are interested in hearing when our menu changes, register for an email update here.

Whatever your choice, you can be sure of the opportunity of dining on exquisite food using Grampian's Finest, prepared by our team of highly skilled and talented chefs. Added to this the sumptuous surroundings and ambience of the Barn & Bushel combine to ensure an all round quality experience that any other establishment in the North East would be hard pushed to match.

The Barn & Bushel is also ideal as a conference and meeting facility. The Barn & Bushel can accommodate up to 130 delegates theatre style and up to 50 classroom style. With up to the minute, digital presentation technology available and traditional audiovisual equipment packages you can be sure of getting your message across in a professional and stimulating manner.

To enquire about booking the Barn & Bushel, please complete our enquiry form here

Fair deal for wine lovers at the Barn & Bushel

Discerning diners at Thainstone Centre's prestigious Barn and Bushel restaurant have welcomed the introduction of a novel approach to pricing wine which is de-mystifying the traditional restaurant wine list - and giving diners a better deal. Most restaurants add a set percentage to the purchase cost of wine to cover their overheads which means the more expensive wines generate a higher margin than cheaper wines.

But the Barn and Bushel's extensive wine list - featuring top vintages from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Argentina and Chile - shows the actual cost price to which a standard service charge of £8.00 per 75cl bottle (including VAT) is added irrespective of the cost of the wine.

We believe ensuring total price transparency is a fair and novel way of opening up our wine list to all our diners, says Highland Cuisine General Manager, Mark Poole. Nowadays the public can access a huge range of wines from all over the world on supermarket shelves. Access to these wines should not be restricted when eating out by unacceptably high mark-ups on wines featured on restaurant wine lists.

The price listed on the Barn and Bushel wine list is the exact price - no more, no less - which Highland Cuisine pay to their wine merchant.

And Mr Poole has no objection to diners bringing along their own wine, subject to the standard service charge of £8.00 per bottle.

The service charge does not apply to the Barn and Bushel's four featured house wines from the 122-year-old Santa Rita winery in Chile which sell at £13.00 per bottle.

The Barn and Bushel's Saturday night Taste of Grampian dinners and Sunday carvery lunches are becoming increasingly popular and attract large numbers of diners every week-end. The restaurant is available for private functions and conferences at other times.

View our wine list here

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