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The 5pm Dining blog always likes to keep an eye on what’s happening on the restaurant scenes of Dundee and Aberdeen.

The last few weeks have seen some action with Dundee’s Castlehill Restaurant opening on Exchange Street and La Stella in Aberdeen becoming The Adelphi Kitchen.

We blogged about Castlehill and its talented young chef Adam Newth back in January and STV’s interview with him is still online here.

The new venture opened in February and its menus are online here.

If you’re buying then we would like to start with the seared scallop with braised pork cheek, parsnip and hazelnut followed by the Campbell’s of Linlithgow haggis with confit lamb shoulder, neeps and tatties. Thanks.

Cook dirty

Moving up the coast to Aberdeen, La Stella has become The Adelphi Kitchen.

If La Stella focused largely on using great Scottish produce to make innovative, creative dishes, then The Adelphi Kitchen is more about the simpler pleasures of smoked or BBQ meat and top quality seafood.

The management have installed a smoking cabinet and charcoal pit. Cooking dirty, or directly on top of the charcoal, is one of the key selling points of the new restaurant.

Look out for local beef which has been dry aged for forty days or more; beef short ribs; the house burger and an array of North Sea langoustines, Peterhead crab claws and Shetland mussels.

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