The Distiller's Lounge

You'll find yourself on Aberdeen Walk in the quieter stretch between the seafront chaos and town centre proper, pushing through a door that feels like it actually means something. The Distiller's Lounge takes its drinks seriously—this isn't about Instagrammable nonsense, it's about knowing what they're doing with spirits and actually caring how they end up in your glass. The room itself has that warm, lived-in quality you want from a proper bar, the kind of place where the staff remember faces and the conversation doesn't get drowned out by commercial house music pumped to eleven.