HATCH, a “new contemporary dining concept” from the team behind The Adamson in St Andrews, will open on Monday, April 26. The new restaurant on 129 South Street in the famous Fife seaside golf and university town will offer a varied menu of modern cuisine with an avant-garde twist and an emphasis on unique small plate dining . HATCH specialises in small plates, excellent wine, and creative cocktails . Food will be prepared with seasonal ingredients sourced from local suppliers and will be “fresh, vibrant, and full of tantalising flavours”. Dishes include miso salmon with broccoli and candied cashews; glazed ox cheek, and a rhubarb and custard dessert are among the menu s highlights. Drinks come in carafes such as Silver Monk, a Harissa Margarita cocktail, and wine flights are available for guests to share.
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Itâs 2015 and Mourad Mazouz â the Algerian-born restaurateur and author of ventures as varied as the Basque bistro Au Bascou in Paris, the high-kicking Moroccan extravaganza Momo and sensual, multilayered Sketch in London â reads a piece in
The New York Times about the gradual disappearance of the American diner.
A few years later, Mazouz decides to breathe new life into the countertop-and-booth-seating aesthetic seen in almost every American high-school movie by launching Mo Diner. The narrow site beside his recently refurbished and reinvigorated Momo restaurant, in Heddon Street (where 1990s It girls used to play with Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise and Madonna), is the perfect location: a deep, narrow railroad car of a space. I visit just before restaurants close â and in the bleak weeks afterwards feel lucky to have gone.