Opening hours

Monday - Friday: 8.00am - 4.00pm
Saturday- Sunday: Closed

Takeaway free food service times

Monday - Friday
Breakfast rolls: 8.00am - 9.30am
Monday - Wednesday & Friday
Evening scran: 4.15pm - 5.00pm

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Sit-in free food service times

Mixed supper
Thursday: 4.15pm - 6.00pm

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UNION STREET COFFEE SHOP
516 Union Street
Aberdeen
AB10 1TT
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Our Menu

Enjoy freshly prepared breakfast, lunch, sweet treats and drinks.

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Pay it forward

You can pay it forward for someone experiencing homelessness.

Pay it forward

Top-notch barista-made coffee. Banging baked potatoes, salads, bagels, toasties, pastries, cakes, and smoothies. Free meals and support for people experiencing homelessness.  

Social Bite Aberdeen is a much-loved independent coffee shop that directs 100% of profits to ending homelessness. We’re known for our friendly neighbourhood atmosphere, great value fresh food, and positive impact in the local community.

we can also come to you

Social Bite offers convenient home and office food delivery, as well as a hireable coffee cart for events, bringing great food and coffee with a social purpose straight to you.

Home & Office delivery

Customers can order freshly prepared, nutritious meals straight to their doorsteps or workplaces combining great taste with a positive social impact.

Hire our coffee cart

Our coffee box will arrive fully staffed with our professional baristas, ready to serve your guests with great coffee, good food for a good cause, and a friendly smile.

An Aberdeen institution

We’ve been changing lives in Aberdeen since 2015, serving over 170,000 free meals to people experiencing homelessness in the last decade. 

Right in the heart of the city, our Union Street coffee shop is a welcoming, intimate, inclusive space, loved by locals and visitors alike. It’s run as a social enterprise, and is part of one of the UK’s leading homelessness charities. In 2020, Catherine, Princess of Wales paid us a visit as part of her work on early childhood and homelessness, and even helped prepare some of our delicious wraps. 

At Social Bite Aberdeen, community is everything. There’s no “us and them” — it’s only “us”, always.  

Really lovely staff and super friendly and welcoming to me and my puppy! He’s now a regular visitor and we enjoy popping in for chats and delicious food, also amazing coffee!

Mary, Google review
Andy's story

“The first thing I got from Social Bite wasn’t a meal. It was a hug.”

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