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The Ship Inn

75/100
  • Elie, Fife
  • Gastropub and seafood
  • By the glass
  • mid-range
  • Beta
  • Assessed July 2026
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These are confidence labels. They show how sure we are that what we publish still reflects the restaurant's current practice. They are not a judgement on the restaurant; the wine and cooking are scored separately, out of 100.

  • Beta means assessed and scored, but we are still confirming some details (such as the current wine list) and the restaurant has not yet had the chance to correct any factual inaccuracy, so it is published with that caveat.
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Restaurants often change their menus. The date beside the label says when we last reviewed.

We assessed The Ship Inn in July 2026 and this review is based on the food menu and wine list at the time of the review. As menus and wine lists change, we name styles in order for the information to remain more useful as menus change. If things have slipped you can use the Vinealto Dining app including accessing an up to date reading using 'At the Table' from the wine list in front of you in the restaurant. How we assess

The Ship Inn is a village seafood pub on the Fife coast whose kitchen cooks the East Neuk's landings and whose owners have built a wine list far deeper and wider than the setting suggests. The wine programme earns its place on genuine breadth, keen and honest pricing, and a crisp, unoaked white range that answers the smoked and cured fish the kitchen does best, held back only by the lack of a Sherry and of printed per-dish pairings. It will most reward the seafood-minded drinker who wants an honest glass across every price band and is glad to find grand bottles waiting for a special night.

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56/100 Beta

The Waterfront

Anstruther, Fife

Seafood restaurant with rooms

The Waterfront is a casual seafood restaurant with rooms on the harbour at Anstruther, cooking East-coast fish, local shellfish and a broad menu of pub-restaurant favourites at seaside prices. Its wine programme is a short, commercial list lifted by a genuinely seafood-minded set of whites (Picpoul, Sancerre, Albariño and a real by-the-glass range) sold at honest prices, though it offers no pairing steer, no dry Sherry for its cured and oily plates and nothing sweet or fortified for pudding. It will most reward the diner who comes for the fish and wants a clean, high-acid white by the glass without fuss.

  • By the glass
  • ££
  • Assessed July 2026
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