The Times
Chitra Ramaswamy found another winner, the “buzziest new opening in Dundee”, a city “which gets cooler by the year”. Eastfield is the first solo venture from Harris McNeill, previously head chef at Ballintaggart Farm in Aberfeldy, and “hovers in the hip zone between café and casual restaurant”
Open only during the day with the occasional BYOB dinner, it is an ultra-minimalist operation with no website, no phone number and no bookings, just an Instagram account and a “concise, hyper-seasonal menu, chalked on a blackboard” and served on vintage crockery.
“You can’t order badly here. It’s all good”, Chitra advised – but three items stood out: flatbreads “browned from a hot pan, smelling like a pancake, glistening with melting butter, stupendously squidgy”, which you find yourself thinking and blabbering about days after eating them; Welsh rarebit with Isle of Mull cheddar that is “lunch of the gods”; and an “already legendary Guinness cake, moist, yeasty and very grown-up”.
Chitra Ramaswamy - 2024-10-06
