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The dining room at the Shoregate in Crail, with wooden tables and wishbone chairs on a herringbone floor and big windows onto the street.
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The Shoregate

An inn on Crail's High Street with a modern dining room, a stone-walled bar in an old smokehouse and four bedrooms, open Wednesday to Sunday.

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Crail is one of the prettiest villages in the East Neuk, and The Shoregate gives it a restaurant to match.

It's an inn in the middle of the village, in an 18th-century building that has been a hotel since around 1890, and it reopened in 2022 after a restoration that took two and a half years. There are two sides to it: a bright, modern dining room at the front, and a traditional bar at the back in the old smokehouse, with stone walls, pews from an old chapel and a real fire. Head chef Craig McAllister cooks a seasonal menu from East Neuk produce and changes a dish or two every month, and The Shoregate is in the Michelin Guide. Children are welcome everywhere, and dogs are welcome in the bar. It's open from Wednesday to Sunday for lunch and dinner, with four lovely bedrooms upstairs, and the 95 bus stops right outside the door.

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Before you go

Lunch and dinner from Wednesday to Sunday; reservations recommended.

Where
67 High Street North, Crail, KY10 3RA.
Open
Wednesday to Sunday from noon; closed Monday and Tuesday.
Food
Lunch 12.30pm to 3.30pm in the bar, the dining room or outside; dinner 6pm to 8.30pm in the dining room.
Booking
Online through its own site; a card secures dinner bookings.
Children
Welcome, with a high chair and a children's menu on request.
Dogs
Welcome in the bar, not in the dining room.
Access
Flat entry to the dining room, a ramp to the bar and an accessible toilet.
Getting there
The 95 bus stops outside.
Phone
01333 451815

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
noon–11pm
Thursday
noon–11pm
Friday
noon–11pm
Saturday
noon–11pm
Sunday
noon–10.30pm

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Where it is

On the High Street in the middle of Crail, a short walk up from the harbour, KY10 3RA.

Close byCrail and the East Neuk.
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