Hannah M.
Yelp
Originally, we had planned to head to a cheese place, I can;t remember the name, but it was shut, it was raining, we were hungry, and this place looked good.
We were seated immediately, by friendly french staff, not a scottish accent in earshot within the servers, which threw us right off!
The decor was lovely, wood, cotton, linen, adorable vintage posters, and bottles and bottles of wine on show, we ordered a red, Malbec if I remember rightly, and it was lovely. I'm no wine critic, and I've stolen someone I used to know's philosophy on wine matching;
"Do you like the wine?"
Definitely, yes...
"Do, you like the food?"
Here? Even more than the wine!
"Then it matches!"
And the food! We were brought choices of fresh bread, which smelt amazing and were hard to pick from! Yum And we ordered up.
My picks were;
Savoury cheese mille fueille (autocorrect harassed me on that one!)
Black pudding parmentier
Tarte Au Chocolat, with creme anglaise and salted caramel sauce.
My starter was gorgeous, the pastry itself was even rich and cheesy, it was a little bit of a wobbly stack, packed with caramelised onion chutney, it was lovely, and hard to eat politely, without scattering shards of flaky pastry across the oh so french striped tablecloth.
My main, I am actually going to attempt to cook for my partner next week when he visits, it was so good. Very hot, so don't dive in too eager, but it was seasoned perfectly. I find that often, already very herby/peppery things such as haggis and black pudding have too much thrown in with them. And although black pudding is quite a dry thing in itself, this was wonderfully moist.
I'm not always a chocolate pudding person, but I was drawn in by the creme anglaise and salted caramel, it was so lovely, rich and dar without being bitter, the anglaise was perfect, and not over sweet with the salted caramel on top.
Everything about this place was lovely, and I'm not surprised they have michelin stars displayed on the door. I will be back!