Assembly

Intelligently and subtly designed, Assembly feels like a model for the modern bar/café/restaurant, not simply another example of the form. The carefully prepared meals are the highlight though, large and tasty with fresh ingredients, astonishing considering that nothing on the menu is over £4.95 (apart from additional toppings for the gourmet burgers). For the cost of a pub meal or a takeaway fish supper, you get the service, surroundings and atmosphere that usually inflate an already over-priced menu in other restaurants. Personal favourites are the Fresh Battered Haddock with Chips, Peas & Tarte Sauce and the Sizzling Platter Fajitas served with Sour Cream. Then there are the specials: From 5pm – 8pm every day you can get two large dishes and a bottle of house wine or a pitcher of Tennents or Bellhaven for £14, and several drinks are also 2 for 1 every day between 5pm and 8pm. Also worth mentioning is the entertainment schedule which features some of the city's best DJ talent played chilled, groovy tunes. [Xavier Toby]