De Niros

De Niros sits in a tucked-away corner of Erskine Lane, a short hop off Broughty Ferry's busy Brook Street, and has built a steady following as a family-run Italian dining room in the seaside suburb. The kitchen runs a fairly traditional Italian menu — stone-baked pizzas, a long pasta list, classic mains and Italian-leaning starters — with a few signature builds that turn up repeatedly in reviews, including a Vesuvio pizza loaded with spicy meatballs, red onion and chillies, a Tuscan with olives, spinach, peppers and sundried tomatoes, and a spicy chicken pasta finished with garlic and red chilli. The dining room itself is dressed in a fairly conventional trattoria style and seats a busy weekend service. The cocktail list and the wine list are more developed than is usual for this part of Dundee, which is one of the things regulars highlight, and the small enclosed beer garden behind the building gives the place a useful summer trade. For Broughty Ferry diners it sits in the bracket of neighbourhood Italian restaurants — a sit-in venue first, with takeaway available — and tends to be busy at weekends.