Mentioned on Off The Ball on Sunday 21st Feb

Thanks to Graham Speirs who mentioned us as serving him ‘the best cod he has ever had in his life’ , on Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan’s Sunday radio show on Radio Scotland.

Available on BBC iPlayer until 2.00pm on Sunday 28th February. Quote occurs at 39 minutes 30 secs.

Link here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r5c4l/Off_the_Balls_Sunday_Supplement_21_02_2010/

Wine Tasting

Title: Wine Tasting
Location: The Seafood Restaurant, St Monans
Description: Featuring the wines of Inverarity Vaults and hosted by their Director, Tarquin de Burgh, a 4 course tasting menu with specially chosen wines for £65 per person.
Start Time: 19.00
Date: Friday 26th March 2010
End Time: 23.00

To download the menu, click here:

Wine Dinner Menu 26Mar

For those wanting to come, please email reservestmonans@theseafoodrestaurant.com [click the burgundy tab saying 'Email St Monans' at the top of this page] and book your places. As ever, these events prove to be very popular due to their fantastic atmosphere so book early to avoid disappointment.

Please add your email address to our Mailing List on our Home Page to receive advance notice of these events and attractive offers too.

The Seafood Restaurant on Youtube

Click on the link to see a Japanese-filmed clip of Craig Millar in the kitchen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8_AxWdiRU

New Menu formats!

In recent weeks we have been pursuing a sustainability direction with regards to our fish and shellfish supplies, and we felt that it was a good time to review our menu formats. Instead of providing a main Table d’Hote menu and a Set Winter menu together, we have streamlined it to just the one menu. We will highlight one starter, one maincourse and one dessert which will provide you with your Set Winter menu, at a price of £14.95 for a 3 course lunch in either restaurant, and  for a 3 course dinner £19.95 in St Monans or £25.00 in St Andrews throughout the winter months (1st October to 31st March).

We can now proudly say that all our fish and shellfish is sourced from sustainable fisheries, whether from designated areas of wild fish stocks, or by sustainable fishing methods such as scallop diving or lobster creeling, or by farming methods which adhere to strict RSPCA Freedom Farm standards. We have worked extremely hard with our suppliers to ensure that we take no part in the further degeneration of wild fish stocks.

Protect the Chagos Islands with a marine reserve

The Chagos archipelago is a very special and rare place – a relatively unpolluted and undisturbed part of the Indian Ocean, with its islands, reefs and waters still teeming with life. Protecting this area would be a major contribution by the UK to global marine biodiversity conservation.

The Chagos archipelago is home to the largest coral atoll in the world, and is the most biodiverse marine ecosystem under UK jurisdiction. The CEN urges the UK Government to declare the Chagos archipelago and waters, out to its 200 mile Environmental Preservation and Protection Zone, a full no-take marine reserve in which extractive activities such as fishing would be prohibited.

We encourage people to support the designation of the Chagos as the world’s largest protected area, and by doing so, help preserve one of the most unspoiled marine environments left on Earth.

Please follow this link and sign the petition.

http://www.protectchagos.org/

Sign up to the 10:10 campaign. We have.

“10:10 is an ambitious project to unite every sector of British society behind one simple idea: that by working together we can achieve a 10% cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010.

By signing up to a 10% target we’re not just supporting 10:10 – we’re making it happen. In our homes, in our workplaces, our schools and our hospitals, our galleries and rugby clubs and universities, we’ll be backing each other up as we take the first steps on the road to becoming a zero-carbon society. It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of a huge problem like climate change, but by uniting everyone behind immediate, effective and achievable action, 10:10 enables all of us to make a meaningful difference.”

Not only are we, at the Seafood Restaurants trying to reduce our carbon footprint, but also we are trying to reduce costs. A win:win situation!

Check out the 10:10 website here. www.1010uk.org

Take a friend for a fiver!

The Seafood Restaurant, St Monans, is participating in the Financial Times’ eating-out campaign, which runs from Saturday 16th January to Friday 12th February inclusively.

To benefit from this offer, you, the customer must:

1. Quote “Lunch with the FT” when you make your reservation.
2. Bring 3 tokens per couple/pair to the restaurant. The tokens are available in the Financial Times (1 per day and 2 at the weekend)

Then we will half your food bill according to the number of vouchers/diners there are, and then add £5 to the cost. All drinks are charged as normal. This offer is valid only with our main menu and not our already discounted Winter Set Menus.

These promotions can be very popular, so please call early and reserve your table on 01333 730 327 or reservestmonans@theseafoodrestaurant.com

WSET Level 1 success

Congratulations to Lukasz Lysiak and Pieter Kruger, front of house staff at The Seafood Restaurant, St Andrews, for passing their Wine and Spirit Education Trust Level 1 exams. We are delighted that both Lukasz and Pieter will be more able to advise our clientelle on the wine list, and this achievement sits perfectly in our efforts to be known for superlative wine service. The Level 1 Founcation Certificate is a 2 day wine and spirit course which provides basic wine knowledge as well looking at how to match food with wine. More information on WSET can be found on www.wset.co.uk

Thanks to Inverarity Wines, one of our major wine suppliers, for providing our staff with the WSET course and training. Contact www.inverarity-vaults.com or 01899 308 000

Opening Times over the Christmas period

St Andrews

St Andrews will be open and serving lunch and dinner 7 days a week as per usual over the Festive period with the exception of Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day closing (25th & 26th December and 1st January).

Back open on Saturday 2nd January for those on a healthy walk down by the West Sands beach.

St Monans

St Monans will be open and serving lunch and dinner 5 days a week Wednesday to Sunday as per usual over the Festive Period with the exception of Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day closing (25th & 26th December and 1st January) and will be OPEN on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th for lunch and dinner.

Back open on Saturday 2nd January for those on a healthy walk down by the harbour and shore.

G20 Conference in St Andrews

The G20 Group will be hosting an additional conference to their Pittsburgh meet earlier this year, in St Andrews, Scotland on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th November. Due to the ministers and their entourage being in town, but also heightened security and the suggestion of demonstrations, please bear in mind the potential for an increase in traffic and minor disruptions.