New owners have smartened up this seaside pub and added six bedrooms, but it still offers a local welcome, freshly caught seafood and, at low tide, a cricket pitch on the beach
There was a dog splayed out in front of a crackling fire in the Ship Inn in Elie. We were at the seaside – in the quaintly grand Kingdom of Fife, facing Edinburgh across the Firth of Forth – out of season. Landlord Graham Bucknall poured us a generous gin and tonic (with artisan, Fife-based Eden Mill, of course – where doesn’t produce its own gin these days?).
“Sometimes there are more dogs than people in the bar,” he laughed. “You shouldn’t come here unless your name’s Lassie,” a local propping up the bar quipped. You get the gist.
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