FOOD & DRINK

Traverse changes track

It's all change at the incredibly popular Traverse with a facelift for the bar and cafe, which List readers have often voted their favourite drinking haunt. \'-.’o."ds Jonathan Trew

Havmg surwved frve years of wear and tear wrth lrttle more than a c0uple of Ircks of pdlni to cover Its modesty, the Traverse bar and cafe has had somet‘nrng of a makeover. Along wrth Its new iook, the Traverse Is takrng over management of Its own cafe and has developed a new menu wIth the help of restaurant consultant Jan Leehouts‘ LeehOuts IS an old hand at revamprng theatres' catenng facmtres Seven years ago he got stuck In at the Tron In Glasgow and he IS also responSIble for the bar/cafe at Dundee Rep. GoIng

back further Into the mlSIS Of trme, he helped Ron McCulloch develop the Oblomov bars whrch f|0unshed a few years ago In both Glasgow and EdInburgh,

The concept behrnd the Traverse's

new cafe IS based on the three drfferent types of pubs cum cafes, whrch exrst In Leehouts' natIve Holland. ’There IS the eet cafe where people go to eat restaurant-qualrty food at reasonable prrces,’ explarns

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The Traverse: neat seats and eats

Leehout 'Then there IS the bru/n cafe where peOple go to eat, dnnk, talk and read the papers Frnally, there are the grand cafes whrch have a :Imeless reputation for gualrty What we've done here IS to take the best elements

of all three types of place. That way we hope to take away the barrrers \Nthh often prevent the general pUbllC from usrng theatre bars and cafes \\ hen they are not seemg a show We arm to be busy all the time, not Just when there IS a show on '

WIth thIs In mind, the weekly changing menu at the Traverse IS deSIgned to frt all needs from grazmg on the hoof to szt-down drnners and IS avarlable at present noon—8pm Coffee and croIssants are on sale from 10 30am and the kitchen may open later In the future If demand rs SuffICIent As well as SOups, frlled baguettes and daIIy specrals, Leehouts has cherry-prcked hrs faVOurIte dIshes from arOund the globe Bratwurst wrth potato salad rubs shOulders wrth Indonesian chrcken satay whrle dIshes Such as deep fried haddock In an

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