Eating Ferry eatery provides ideal evening meal

AFTER moving into a flat in Broughty Ferry, I felt it was only right to celebrate the occasion with a trip to a real institution in the area.

The Ship Inn has been in situ since 1847, originally a spirit dealer, and it remains a popular haunt for plenty of people throughout the week.

After their (much needed) help with the move, I decided to treat my mum and dad to a Saturday night meal and when I called to book there were two choices – 5.30pm or 8.30pm which gives you an idea of just how popular this place really is.

We opted for the later time and strolled down – well, forced our way down as the shore breeze blew into our faces – after the final bag had been unpacked.

I thought things would be dying down by the time we arrived but we weren’t even the last table to be seated, as every single table in the small dining room filled up with happy punters.

With a wonderful view of the River Tay from the window of the restaurant, it was a fabulous setting for a meal on a Saturday night and I was well impressed straight away.

The menu is simple but effective and I always feel it’s cheating if you go to a place so close to the sea and don’t have fish in some way, shape or form.

And I also did something I always try to do when out for dinner and plumped for two options from the specials menu.

My starter was chorizo, black pudding and potato – all I can say is I hope it’s added to the main menu sooner rather than later.

It was absolutely excellent and worked perfectly together with generous cuts of chorizo, along with the soft fried potato and the melt in the mouth black pudding. A real 10/10 starter. My mum and dad didn’t want something too fullon to start so shared the trio of Greek dips.

It included hummus, as well as olive and anchovybased tapenade and baba ganoush, which is mashed aubergine.

They loved it and lathered their pitta breads in