The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Vandal & Co joins foodie haven
Exchange Street in Dundee, down near the waterfront, has been building a reputation for itself in recent years as a foodie haven.
Fine dining restaurant Castlehill formerly took up residence and city favourites The Selkie, the Flame Tree Cafe and The Cheesery are still serving up some of their fine fare in the area.
After Castlehill closed in December 2019 the restaurant site lay empty for more than a year.
Now, however, it will be getting a new lease of life in the guise of new kid on the block Vandal & Co, which is about to open its doors.
In charge of the street’s newest foodie offering are Jonnie Armitage and his business partner Corey Buxton.
An idea that the making has for been in a few months, Jonnie and Corey decided to turn their dream of running a restaurant into a reality.
Jonnie said: “It came to be via me and my business partner Corey.
“We’ve been working in hospitality for a number of years and we felt it was the right time to form a management team.
“The name Vandal & Co just came about from playing around with words and trying to come up with a restaurant name that was non-specific to the type of food that we wanted to sell.
“It’s very easy to name your restaurant after an Italian restaurant or an Asian restaurant, but we feel that we’re going to offer more than one specific type of food.”
Jonnie added: “A lot of people have been asking what kind of food we will be serving and we’ve been struggling to give an answer. In our minds, what we believe it to be is, without trying to sound ‘on-trend’, we’re first and foremost a British restaurant. If you look at the British culture and the history of us as a nation, what we do is embrace different styles and different trends of food.
“So everything from British-Asian fusion and a little bit of American thrown in with burgers and wings. We’ve also got some French-style food that we’ve put our Vandal & Co twist on.”
They will also be catering for all sorts of dietary requirements, including vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free and vegan.
Vandal & Co will be open every day from April 27.
More information can be found on their Facebook page – facebook.com/ Vandalco