Breaking news
May 2021: Haar is currently not open at this location; to experience the cooking, try Haar at Home haarathome.co.uk
July 2020: plans for an Edinburgh branch of Haar are onhold, but chef Dean Banks is busy expanding his Haar at Home service and has plans to open a high end chippy in St Andrews in September 2020, which will be named HAARbour.
Harden's says
Named for a "cold sea fog on the East coast of Scotland", Haar, from MasterChef finalist Dean Banks, serves British produce, simply prepared.
Harden's survey result
Summary
“Tucked away near the golf courses in St Andrews” (by the 18th hole of the Old course) – Dean Banks moved this ambitious venue here (to the former ‘Golf Inn’) from another location in town two years ago. Ratings slipped a tad this year as views were split on its virtues: to a majority of reporters his multi-course tasting menu provides “fantastically flavoured fish and seafood with innovative textures and at sensible price too”; and “a wonderful experience at the chef’s table”. Others, though, found it “overpriced” for food that was “just OK”, not helped by a couple of incidents of “poor” or “unwelcoming” service.
Summary
“Chef Dean Banks is very committed to his outstanding St Andrews restaurant, making the most of wonderful ingredients, and giving his customers a real experience” from a tasting menu, with various options priced from £82.50. That’s the initial view on this Christmas 2021 newcomer, which Dean opened at the former ‘Golf Inn’ (by the 18th floor of the Old course) after a crowdfunding campaign to move from his former location, within a five-star hotel elsewhere in the town. The name means a cold sea fog on the east coast of Scotland.
Summary
Chef Dean Banks launched a crowdfunding campaign to relocate his well-regarded venture – formerly at a five-star hotel in the town – to this new spot, overlooking the 18th hole of the famous golf course at the former Golf Inn. Open from December 2021, it is likely to echo the surf ’n’ turf formula he adopted so successfully during lockdown with Haar at Home. Meanwhile, Dean and his team have also revived the historic Pompadour restaurant in Edinburgh’s Caledonian Hotel.
Summary
Named for a ‘cold sea fog on the east coast of Scotland’, Haar, from MasterChef finalist Dean Banks, is part of five-star hotel Kinettles. It opened too late for much in the way of survey feedback, but early reviews in the Scottish press have been very complimentary about its sharing plates cuisine.
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1 Golf Place, St Andrews, KY16 9JA
Restaurant details
Haar Restaurant Diner Reviews
"Just had their 3 course set lunch menu with chef's table snacks. very good food with attentive service. restaurant quite quiet so atmosphere a little subdued. "
"Food is outstanding and innovative accomplished by top of their league chefs. Service is a bit soulless and feels like you are a commodity rather than a guest. No maitre’d presence and waiting staff recite (very well) the dishes as if the learning is the achievement. Ambience is clinical and lack that warmth and softness of furnishing. "
Prices
| Availability | 2 courses | 3 courses |  |
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| Lunch | £29.00 |  |
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| Dinner | £89.00 | |
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| Cost | Availability | Courses | |
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| Menu1 | 82.50 | Dinner only | 5 |
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| Wine per bottle | £40.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £4.00 |
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| Bread | £0.00 |
| Service | 12.50% |
1 Golf Place, St Andrews, KY16 9JA
Opening hours
| Monday | 5 pm‑ |
| Tuesday | 5 pm‑ |
| Wednesday | 12 pm‑ |
| Thursday | 12 pm‑ |
| Friday | 12 pm‑ |
| Saturday | 12 pm‑ |
| Sunday | 12 pm‑ |
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