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The bar at Haar in St Andrews, with wooden stools at a stone-topped counter, blue armchairs and its awards on the wall.
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Haar

Dean Banks's restaurant with rooms on Golf Place in St Andrews, fifty metres from the Old Course, with a tasting menu of Scottish seafood and produce.

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There's something special about dinner a short walk from the Old Course, and Haar is one of the best places in St Andrews for it.

Dean Banks, who grew up in Arbroath and reached the final of MasterChef: The Professionals in 2018, opened it in 2019, and since late 2022 it has had its own home on Golf Place, just fifty metres from the course. The name is the cold sea fog that rolls in off the North Sea, and the cooking is built on Scottish seafood and local produce, with flavours he has picked up in more than forty countries. The tasting menu is served at both lunch and dinner and changes with the seasons. Haar holds four AA Rosettes and is in the Michelin Guide, and there are six stylish rooms upstairs if you'd like to make a night of it. It opens on Wednesday evenings and for lunch and dinner from Thursday to Sunday, so book ahead through its website.

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Before you go

A tasting menu at lunch and dinner; book through its own site.

Where
1 Golf Place, St Andrews, KY16 9JA, fifty metres from the Old Course.
Open
Wednesday from 5pm; Thursday to Sunday 12pm to 3pm and from 5pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
The menu
A tasting menu at lunch and dinner, £69 a head.
Booking
Online through its own site, or by phone.
Rooms
Six bedrooms above the restaurant.
Access
An accessible toilet and seating.
Phone
01334 479281

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
5pm–midnight
Thursday
noon–3pm, 5pm–midnight
Friday
noon–3pm, 5pm–midnight
Saturday
noon–3pm, 5pm–midnight
Sunday
noon–3pm, 5pm–midnight

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Where it is

On Golf Place in St Andrews, fifty metres from the Old Course, KY16 9JA.

Close bySt Andrews, by the Old Course.
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  2. The dining room at Ondine in Seaton House, St Andrews, with a long marble-topped bar on one side and tables by tall windows on the other.Ondine Oyster & GrillA seafood restaurant and oyster bar in Seaton House on The Scores in St Andrews, looking over the West Sands.Under a mile as the crow flies
  3. Tables in the glass-walled dining room of the Seafood Ristorante, St Andrews, with the sea and the beach beyond the windows.The Seafood RistoranteA glass-walled seafood restaurant over the beach at St Andrews Bay, behind the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, cooking local fish with an Italian touch.Under a mile as the crow flies
  4. Golden retriever rests by "The Himalayas" putting green sign near St Andrews clubhouseThe HimalayasThe hilly putting green of the St Andrews Ladies' Putting Club, between the Old Course and the West Sands, open to the public daily April to October.Under a mile as the crow flies
  5. The Road Hole Restaurant at the Old Course Hotel, St Andrews: tables, a long banquette and tall windows looking out over the course.Road Hole RestaurantThe restaurant on the fourth floor of the Old Course Hotel in St Andrews, looking over the 17th hole of the Old Course and the West Sands.Under a mile as the crow flies
  6. St Andrews Castle, the ruined gatehouse range and tower on the green above the sea.St Andrews CastleThe ruined castle of the bishops and archbishops of St Andrews beside the sea, with a bottle dungeon and the ornate Hamilton Façade.Under a mile as the crow flies
  7. Stone archway framing the ruined tower and walls of St Andrews CathedralSt Andrews CathedralThe ruins of what was once Scotland's largest church, begun in 1160 and dedicated in 1318, at the east end of St Andrews beside St Rule's Tower.Under a mile as the crow flies
  8. St Andrews West SandsSt Andrews West SandsAlmost two miles of sand beside the golf links at St Andrews, where the opening of Chariots of Fire was filmed, backed by protected dunes.1 mile as the crow flies
Directions
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