This buzzy conservation area was once the preserve of Dundee’s jute and jam barons, who built enormous sandstone homes up and down Perth Road. Now it’s where you’ll find one of Scotland’s best high streets with an independent record shop, a vintage store hosting pop-up gigs and — whisper it — possibly the one good restaurant in the city, the trendy taco joint Màs, where only the especial beef birria quesadilla tops£10.
For years Emily Dewhurst gazed longingly over the River Tay to the West End from her home in rural Fife. In 2007 she decided to relocate. “There were no buses and it was a hassle with little kids,” Dewhurst, the founder of Kitchen Press, a cookbook publisher, says.
“I love the setting of