A NEW festival is arriving on Belmont Street aimed at showcasing the street’s home of cafe culture, despite the closures of two businesses in the area.
Toucan are to relocate back to Rosemount less than a year after opening in the city centre, while Tango Turtle, on Little Belmont Street, is shutting up shop.
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But there’s high hopes that the Belmont Street Bash will bring more people into the city and onto the popular street, which, along with Little Belmont Street and Gaelic Lane, is home to more than 25 businesses.
The event, taking place in the middle of Aberdeen Restaurant Week on Saturday, September 7, will feature music, arts events, literature and outdoor yoga.
The day is being organised by The Collective on the Cobbles, a group of 30 businesses in the area aiming to improve things on the street.
Owners and managers of the streets most successful businesses, including Sibera, Books & Beans and pub chain Greene King (which operates the Wild Boar, the Old School House and Ma Cameron’s) are all part of the collective.
The Belmont Cinema, which is earmarked to reopen next year subject to fundraising, will also open up for the first time since its sudden closure in 2022 to give film buffs a chance to look inside the venue before it’s renovated.
John Wigglesworth, who owns Books & Beans, told the Press & Journal that the collective wants to “pour energy into making the city centre a fun place to be”.
