Moonfish Café, Aberdeen: ‘A crowd-pleasing menu’ – restaurant review

Moonfish Café, 9 Correction Wynd, Aberdeen AB10 1HP. Lunch starters £9.95-£10.95, mains £14.95, desserts £8.50, two-course dinner £30, three courses £38, wines from £22

In the very oldest of cities, the dead are never far from the living. Here at Moonfish Café in Aberdeen, the view, across a narrow, cobbled lane, is of the 12th-century Kirk of St Nicholas, a brooding edifice in the city’s familiar palette of wintery greys. It is surrounded on three sides by a graveyard filled with those who built this city: the men of God and the men of mammon and the men of politics, and it is mostly men. Among this monochrome diet of moral rectitude is a flash of colour: the grave of one John Henry Anderson, a 19th-century magician given the stage name the Great Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott.