The counter
One kitchen, twelve seats, and a menu that changes when the boats and the garden do.
Tove Merrin cooks every plate at the counter, a metre from where you sit. There is one sitting a night and one menu, so the kitchen can cook each course at the moment it is ready to eat.
Tonight, autumn
Three of this week’s courses, and where each part of them comes from.
The evening
How three hours at the counter run, ticket by ticket.
TICKET 01
18:45
Doors
Take your seat at the counter. Snacks and a glass of something cold while the kitchen sets the pass.
TICKET 02
19:00
First course
All twelve plates of the first course are fired together, so the whole counter eats at once.
TICKET 03
20:30
Dessert
The pastry section takes over the pass. Sorbet is shaped with a hot spoon as each plate goes out.
TICKET 04
21:45
Last pour
Coffee, a small sweet and the menu to take home, signed by whoever cooked your fish.
Find us
14 Coburg Street, Leith. The door with the brass hand, next to the chandler.
Ten minutes on the 16 or 22 bus from Princes Street, or a walk along the Water of Leith. Tell us about allergies when you book and we will plan around them.
The counter, from above
12 seats
Kitchen and pass
Seat 7 faces the pass. Ask for it when you book if you want to watch every plate go out.