{"id":1996,"date":"2006-11-30T23:29:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T23:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1996.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T17:09:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T17:09:01","slug":"the-compass-bar-and-grill-leith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2006\/11\/30\/the-compass-bar-and-grill-leith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Compass Bar and Grill, Leith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous job I worked two blocks away from The Compass (44 Queen Charlotte Street, Leith, Edinburgh) for about three years, and never set foot in it.  From the outside it looks like a typical Leith drinking pub, i.e. not terribly inspiring.  It was only when I saw its entry in Peter Irvine&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Scotland-Best-Peter-Irvine\/dp\/0007165307\">Scotland The Best<\/a><\/i> guide as one of Edinburghs best &#8220;Pubs with Good Food&#8221; that I thought I should pay it a visit.  As it happens, it&#8217;s really nice inside.  Stone walls, wooden tables, comfortable chairs.  And possibly the best fish and chips I have <em>ever<\/em> had.  <\/p>\n<p>The haddock was flavourful, even after deep frying.  The beer batter was thick and crunchy, and still retained some of the taste of the beer&#8211;a delicious rarity.  (Not a strong taste, mind, but just enough to let you know that it was prepared with great care and attention.)  The chips were long, broad and thin, and cooked to perfection: not too crispy, not too soggy.  I felt like Goldilocks: everything was <em>just right<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I was having lunch with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattlittle.co.uk\/\">Matt<\/a>, and he had a lamb burger that looked delicious, too.  I&#8217;ll certainly be tempted to try some of their other dishes next time I visit The Compass, but when they have shown me fish and chip perfection, is it even worth the risk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous job I worked two blocks away from The Compass (44 Queen Charlotte Street, Leith, Edinburgh) for about three years, and never set foot in it. From the outside it looks like a typical Leith drinking pub, i.e. not terribly inspiring. It was only when I saw its entry in Peter Irvine&#8217;s Scotland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[1367,1364,1292,1363,1142,1365,1368,1291],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food_5_stars","tag-beerbatter","tag-compass","tag-edinburgh","tag-fishandchips","tag-legendshome","tag-leith","tag-pub","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}