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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

Mara

74/100
  • Aberdeen, Aberdeen City
  • Italian-leaning small plates, wine bar and bottle shop
  • By the glass
  • Mid-range
  • Beta
  • Assessed July 2026
What's this?

These are confidence labels — how sure we are that what we publish still reflects the restaurant's current practice. They are not a judgement on the restaurant; the wine and cooking are scored separately, out of 100.

  • Beta — assessed and scored, but we are still confirming some details (such as the current wine list), so it is published with that caveat.
  • No label — a fully confirmed entry.
  • In development — not yet a review; it appears so you can see where coverage is coming.

Some restaurants change their menus often, and we cannot always keep pace. The date beside the label says when we looked.

We assessed Mara in July 2026 from the menu and wine list as they stood then. Dishes and bottles move on; how to drink well here changes far more slowly. We name bottles from the list we saw and say what to reach for by style, so the advice outlasts the list. Once you are seated, At the Table in the Vinealto app reads the list in front of you.

Mara is an all-Italian wine bar, small-plates kitchen and bottle shop in Aberdeen's West End, where the food is built to be grazed with a glass in hand. The wine programme achieves real mutual elevation through a coherent regional Italian list, an unusually generous two-size by-the-glass offer and a Franciacorta block that answers the hardest plates, held back from more only by unshown vintages and the absence of any organic thread. It will most reward the curious drinker who wants to graze Italian small plates and work through a serious by-the-glass list without committing to a bottle.

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