The Sunday Times
Chitra Ramaswamy swooned over “possibly the best plate of my life” at this restaurant beside Bruntsfield Links – “where golf has been played for 700 years” – from Rachel Chisholm and her partner, chef Phil White, whose hit café and wine bar Margot is almost next door.
She described LeftField as a place of “confident minimalism” with a “bold and considered approach”, serving mostly seafood along with “hyper-seasonal” ingredients.
And the dish? A thick fillet of hake with cockles and beurre blanc studded with Arenkha caviar (an affordable, sustainable substitute made with smoked herring) – “a LeftField favourite and I can see why with its smoky, citrussy, saline profile. On the side? New potatoes roasted in reckless amounts of butter, squashed ever so gently and persuasively in the most Bruntsfield of ways, before being rained upon by truffle and very nutty Rainton Tomme cheese. Jesus.”
Chitra Ramaswamy - 2025-05-25
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