Eastfield, Dundee

"Food on plates and coffee in cups" is new Dundee café Eastfield’s Insta bio statement. It gets across the simplicity offered by owner Harris McNeill – the former head chef at Perthshire’s foodie destination Ballintaggart. But his interpretations of the season’s highest quality ingredients speak for themselves.

“I’m very relaxed so hopefully this comes through?” checks Harris McNeill. It’s a preface to his answers about Eastfield, his new café with a forest-green frontage, “jammed between the university and the top of Perth Road” in Dundee. Chalkboards propose breakfasts, lunches, small starters and mains, but the menu changes daily, weekly and monthly because the former Ballintaggart head chef talks to his “amazing suppliers to see what’s best and what’s delicious”. There will always be some sort of pasta, though: “I love the simplicity of it, but how a few ingredients can be so complex. I love the imperfection of it.” It is, says Harris, “just like Eastfield.”