![]() Now read: A guide to North Berwick, Scotland All this, backed by wild sandy beaches overlooked by grassy banks, rolling into the chilly sea. The harbourfront Lobster Shack serves super-local fish, while NB Distillery bottles dry gins, citrus vodkas and dark rums. Catherine Franks, who started serving coffee from the back of an old VW camper van at Edinburgh’s Stockbridge Market, is behind cosy café Steampunk Coffee Roasters, and Bostock Bakery gained so much attention for its pastries that René Redzepi sent his assistant to learn how they’re made. In the past few years, Edinburgh’s clued-up chefs have started to sweep east to this long-forgotten corner of the country, where once-struggling High Street stores are now being turned into independent bakeries and fine-dining restaurants doing a roaring trade. Now read: The best restaurants in Cornwall: 15 seaside spots to visitĪn hour’s drive east of Edinburgh, the seaside town of North Berwick sits on a jagged bit of the Scottish coastline that sticks up and out into the Firth of Forth. Plus, Cornwall is home to possibly the UK’s most exciting food-focussed place to stay: Coombeshead Farm, where two of the UK's top chefs, April Bloomfield and Tom Adams, are aiming to be totally self-sufficient, cooking up true farm-to-fork feasts for those checking in. ![]() Meanwhile, London cooks have been quietly setting up on the Cornwall coast for a while now: Jeremie Cometto-Lingenheim and David Gingell, of Newington Green’s Primeur and Jolene, opened Fitzroy with a menu of local mussels and foraged vegetables, and North London favourite Prawn on the Lawn launched a second space in Cornwall, from where they were sourcing their fish. Some of the UK’s top chefs have deep roots here: Rick Stein put Padstow on the culinary map years ago and local chef Nathan Outlaw helms a two-Michelin-starred, ocean-front restaurant in Port Isaac. Cornish beaches can be as clear and beautiful as the Caribbean and the subtropical vegetation supplies restaurants all over the country. ![]() Best for: following the UK’s best chefs to the coastĬornwall is far enough away and difficult enough to get to from basically anywhere else in the UK that visiting it feels as though you’re travelling abroad. ![]()
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