Overlooking the Old Course, Haar was opened just before Covid hit by Dean Banks, Masterchef: The Professionals finalist, who crafts tasting menus worth tasting, awash with local produce. His smoked St Andrews Bay lobster is sublime. This is St Andrews, though, so no resting on laurels: as the “Big Hoolie” finally calms down, attention turns to Banks, who opens a new gastro bar that night called Dune. It welcomes with an evocative sign: “Where the sea hits the sky”.
With such a revered spire-studded skyline to preserve, developers don’t have the option to reach for the skies. Instead they’ve gone west. St Andrews West is a new development that will eventually see hundreds of new sustainable homes, with retail, healthcare and leisure swirled into the mix. The first phase is already open.
Were St Andrews just all glitzy and new it may not have caught the eye of Woods and Timberlake. They are keen on reinventing the B-listed art deco New Picture House as their latest upmarket T-Squared Social sports bar. It seems there is a limit, though, to the local tolerance for change at any cost, with a palpable backlash as we go to press against the redevelopment of the much-loved cinema. And talk of a petition, too.
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Publish date : 2023-11-30 03:00:00
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