The Times
Chitra Ramaswamy enjoyed lunch at “one of the best tables I’ve sat at this year. No, any year”, perched on a cliff edge overlooking the North Sea. The café – “six niftily put-together shipping containers, plus a newly converted horse trailer outside for ordering takeaway” – was opened in 2018 by Jo and Stuart McNicol as a farm diversification project, employing local staff and using local, seasonal, sustainable produce.
It’s “brilliantly done”, too, with Korean panko-fried chicken bo ssam “as crunchy as you’d find in the best hipster fried chicken pop-up”, while equally good chicken Milanese arrives accompanied by “a side of giant chips, skin on, dusted with plenty of paprika and drizzled with aioli – exactly what you want, but rarely get, when you order patatas bravas”.
Chitra recommends arriving via the coastal path from North Berwick, less than an hour on foot, to savour the “jaw-dropping” location and build up an appetite. If that’s not possible, there’s both a spacious car park and a local bus service to drop you at the door.
Chitra Ramaswamy - 2024-12-01
