Common Sense Coffee House & Bar is located in the heart of Aberdeen, serving visitors to Union Terrace Gardens and theatre goers throughout the year. Good food - great coffee - it just makes sense.
Common Sense Catering is your direct delivery service for catering. From breakfast, business lunches to catered events, we can provide the service you want, when you want it.
Common Sense Catering is your direct delivery service for catering. From business lunches to catered events we can handle functions for large parties.
Our Story
We want to create spaces and services that are based on being inclusive, quality-driven, imaginative, practical, and fun.
We believe that is what most people look for, just plain and simple common sense. That is our approach, and therefore becomes our name.
Common sense endures as a concept and is accepted to mean good sense in practical matters. It is defined as sound judgment concerning everyday matters; a basic or common ability to best understand and judge the quality of a thing, place or idea in a manner that is shared by (nearly) all people.
Common Sense Approach
Did you know that Thomas Reid, the northeast of Scotland most famous enlightenment philosopher was a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, and a Church of Scotland minister before being given a professorship at Kings College in 1752. Reid wrote ‘An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense,’ published in 1764, and established the Scottish School of Common Sense.
Enjoy the sunshine on the terrace this summer
The Common Sense Coffee House and Bar is somewhere to relax, somewhere that soothes and – most of all – an inclusive space for enjoyment, whether alone, with family, with friends, with loved ones or starting new relationships. Open for all to enjoy, family and pet friendly.