In May 2011 we enhancing the current surroundings and have introduced a new pool area, HD televisions, dark gothic bespoke seating den. Creating a pub venue unlike anything else in Aberdeen. Watch your team play in stunning HD at The Still 7 days a week! Call today to book your pitch side seat and watch all the action LIVE! Watch out for our monthly live music events featuring some of the best rock, pop and party bands Aberdeen has to offer on the 1st Saturday of every month... We are delighted to welcome some of Aberdeen’s finest cover, rock and party bands to The Still on the first Saturday of every month. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for full details. On stage from 9.30pm… The Illicit Still food is lead by our Executive Chef, Dave Anderson who has a modern gastro pub menu with the old favorites and daily specials to satisfy the most discerning palate. Add to this our new pizza and children's menu and it’s easy to understand why the Illicit Still is arguably Aberdeen’s premier bar and food venue. If you are planning a special occasion such as a birthday, leaving party, family occasion, graduation, and our management team would be delighted to reserve an area of the bar and provide catering to suit your needs. A History Lesson - The Illicit Stills in Scotland: There is a link drawn between Greenock and Dundee where above exist awesome mountains, silent Lochs and empty glens, but it was not always so… To avoid payment of the ‘malt tax’ imposed in 1713 by an English parliament, Highlanders took to remote glens and hillsides, to where whisky could be made undetected. Their equipment was rudimentary and easy to dismantle to aid a quick escape from pursuing excise men or ‘gaugers’. It was reported in 1798 that the ‘industry was in a thousand hands’ and by 1823 there were 14,000 official discoveries of illicit stills. A mere fraction of those that escaped the ‘gauger’.