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Tables in the glass-walled dining room of the Seafood Ristorante, St Andrews, with the sea and the beach beyond the windows.
Fife

The Seafood Ristorante

A 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.

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It's hard to beat the setting at the Seafood Ristorante, a glass-walled dining room built out over the beach at St Andrews Bay, just behind the Royal and Ancient Golf Club.

From your table the view runs right along the coast to the West Sands and beyond. Executive chef Davy Aspin and his team cook locally caught, sustainable seafood, delivered every day, with an Italian touch, from Shetland cod with squid and a bourride sauce to hand-cut spaghetti with Scottish girolles. There are oysters by the piece to start, and a seasonal lunch menu of two or three courses. It's in the Michelin Guide's pick of the best seafood restaurants in Scotland. Lunch is served from Thursday to Saturday and dinner from Monday to Saturday, and it's closed on Sundays. Book ahead for a window table, and come at lunchtime for the light on the water.

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Before you go

Lunch from Thursday to Saturday, dinner every evening but Sunday.

Where
Bruce Embankment, The Scores, St Andrews, KY16 9AB.
Open
Monday to Wednesday 5pm to 11pm; Thursday to Saturday noon to 11pm. Closed Sunday.
Lunch
A seasonal menu, two or three courses, noon to 2pm.
Booking
Online or by phone; a deposit is taken for tables of six or more.
Access
Wheelchair-accessible entrance, parking and toilet.
Phone
01334 479475

Opening hours

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Monday
5pm–11pm
Tuesday
5pm–11pm
Wednesday
5pm–11pm
Thursday
noon–11pm
Friday
noon–11pm
Saturday
noon–11pm
Sunday
Closed

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Where it is

On Bruce Embankment below The Scores, over the beach at St Andrews Bay, KY16 9AB.

Close byThe Scores and the West Sands.
  1. Illuminated display panels line a dark museum gallery with glowing floor exhibitsThe R&A World Golf MuseumThe museum of golf at St Andrews, beside the Old Course, telling over 400 years of the game through thousands of objects, with a putting green inside.Under a mile as the crow flies
  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. The bar at Haar in St Andrews, with wooden stools at a stone-topped counter, blue armchairs and its awards on the wall.HaarDean 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.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. 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
  6. 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
  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.Under a mile as the crow flies
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