Tell me your favourite (and open Sundays) places for (a) brunch or (b) coffee & cake in North Berwick please. ((b) is the "didn't get out of bed early enough" plan.)
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Posted 6 years ago #
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I have been to exactly one coffee shop in North Berwick, but it was pretty good, if a tad hipster. Open 10-5 on Sundays.
https://www.steampunkcoffee.co.uk/
No bike racks marked on OSM, but I'm pretty sure I parked mine just off the High St.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Seabird centre is good for food and views
Posted 6 years ago # -
Steampunk is the Fietsclub Balermo cafe of choice in north Berwick. I like the lobster cafe within the harbour walls. I eat chips. It sells prosecco by the gallon but I stopped drinking prosecco when it started tasting like what I imagine cat's pee tastes like. Not in the walls themselves but perched on the ledge on the inner side of the walls. Not sure it is open winter?
Posted 6 years ago # -
Cheers. Tempted by idea of lobster & chips but suspect it'll be Steampunk or Seabirds... (ETA: oh, Steampunk are the ones who also operate out of that mustard coloured VW Van at Stockbridge Sunday Market.)
(The Steampunk & Seabird is probably a really hipstery pub.) (Now thinking up cafe names for the cake shop I will never run. The Gallus Gannet?)
Posted 6 years ago # -
I have never used the Drip but suppose we must, if not already there, be nearing saturation in Edinburgh as far as coffee shops go.
Given what some people seem to like drinking I don't think the excellence of a shop's coffee is really a reassurance on survival in the current market, alas.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Re that EEN article: Bon is a nice place and the cakes are better than the over-sweetened bling from nearby Mimi's.
Posted 6 years ago # -
When did 3.5 yrs become an era??
Posted 6 years ago # -
“When did 3.5 yrs become an era??”
Whenever short attentionspanners began drinking too much coffee...
Posted 6 years ago # -
Seems to a new cafe in Innerleithen between No 1 and Loulabelles (ex whistlstop).
Also a big sign pointing towards a Sunday cafe in Heriot direction at the junction on the road through the Moorfoots.
Feedback welcome as I didn't investigate either on this occasion
Posted 5 years ago # -
@amir, we had good lunch in cafe east of no 1 lot of pine inside. Good photos of the Tala Wall etc. Took 18 of us, we had booked ahead. Excellent value, friendly staff. Maybe the one you mean or maybe not.
Did not know about the Heriot cafe, just open Sunday's?
Apple pie in Carnwath to have tearoom and garden, opening late July. Audrey the owner is Spiro cyclists as we do not hang about. She has massive slabs of key lime pie for two quid. Too much for me but had wee rhubarb pie today that hit the spot.
Posted 5 years ago # -
massive slabs of key lime pie for two quid
I like the sound of that! Now I am even more tempted to make a detour on my way home.
Posted 5 years ago # -
@bill, if anything, too big. Also new Pavlova but it is for a family of six
Posted 5 years ago # -
@gembo there is no cake/pastry/dessert that is too big for me.
I prefer Pavlova when it's freshly assembled so I think I will stick to my homemade ones.
Do you need to lock the bike when you go in for the cakes or it is safe?
Posted 5 years ago # -
There is a hand rail that goes up the steps along past the door and back down the other steps. Think Trapezium. Room for maybe 6-8 bikes. I just hang the bars over the handrail as you can see it from the table. Never been any issue though when they open up next door this might start to become a concern? Will ask about this as a factor in the cycle garden being created.
Opening hours are something like 8-4 Mon to Sat and 9-3 Sun.
Posted 5 years ago # -
The Juniper Green police box is open as a coffee and waffle place now. Getting good reviews from locals. Open early (like about 7.30) till 3 ish. Owner is a bit eccentric!
Posted 5 years ago # -
Poirot
Posted 5 years ago # -
@ Amir - yes I also saw that Sunday Café sign pointing towards Heriot. I was too tired to investigate.
@ Gembo - Talla wall yesterday - what time? I struggled up around 1145.
Posted 5 years ago # -
@iainmcr, did not cycle it was merely reminiscing about the photo of it in the pine cafe of inners
Posted 5 years ago # -
We tried the cafe in Heriot's Macfie Hall today. It was very good. Limited offerings but done well. Includes soup, baked potatoes and toasties. And of course cake. Cheap, perhaps overly cheap given that they're raising money for a refurbishment and extension of the hall. Definitely worth trying out and supporting. And the location is superb
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@amir, Aye, have been eyeing up that Sunday cafe
Posted 5 years ago # -
I tried the relatively new cafe in Gullane today: Cherish Tearoom. Definitely recommend it. Both coffee and cake were great.
Posted 5 years ago # -
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Cycling UK's Cyclist Café of the Year in Scotland award goes to....“
Posted 5 years ago # -
As visited by the CCE Tweedbank outing crew. Nice food and free coffee refills.
Posted 5 years ago # -
What's the best Marchmont / Tollcross area cafe for laptop time? I need a seat with a back (not a horrible stool / perch), good WiFi (i.e. not TheCloud which my work laptop won't talk to), tables of decent size that don't wobble, reasonable peace, and fancy tea / decent coffee.
Cake a bonus.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Several years ago I would have said Black Medicine but they're back to just their original site with the Marchmont and Barclay branches sadly gone. Cakes are very definitely a bonus there, particularly the enormous chocolate muffins.
Posted 5 years ago # -
@unhurt, would the Filmhouse Cafe-Bar be stretching the boundaries of Tollcross too far?
(...and if Wifi slurping is sometimes problematic, it's worth looking into changing your mobile phone tariff to one which has a reasonable data allowance and which allows tethering, to avoid that particular problem. If you are on an older tariff, data allowances have become a lot cheaper recently.)
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