Breakfast table

 

    Having been to look round the new John Hope Gateway building at the RBGE we planned to try the restaurant at the first opportunity, and as their breakfast menu looked particularly tempting, scarcely had the doors opened yesterday when we were there.

   The table at which we sat was inscribed 'Elm (ulmus glabra)', the Wych elm or Scots elm; a neighbouring one was Ash, another Sycamore, and so on, the timber for the furniture all coming from trees felled in the four gardens (Edinburgh, Logan, Dawyck and Benmore) which make up the RBG

That was the table, but what was on it?

 

Scotch pancakes, Ayshire bacon, maple syrup, and good coffee.

A. A. Gill says in Breakfast at The Wolseley, "Breakfast is a meal apart...It doesn't have courses or an order; it isn't prescriptively sweet or savoury; there is no generally accepted sense of its length or constituent parts. It's bespoke, tailor-made to you: a private meal or habit. Breakfast is the most personal and idiosyncratic construction .... It is the most intimate of meals, a euphemism, a glance and a sly smile."

Doesn't that make you view it in a whole new light?

(For The Wolseley itself, click here).

Comments

[Jennifer]

Looks like a really neat place and the breakfast looks scrumptious.

[Fran]

My mouth is watering! Pancakes, bacon and maple syrup are my favourite "eat out" breakfast.

[Antonio Scopare]

Oh God...awfull...how can you eat pancakes, bacon and maple syrup together? Disgusting....

[Donna]

This looks like a delightful place to start the day. The scotch pancakes look particularly good. Do you make these at home, and if so how are they made? I have often wished we had visited the RBG when we visited your fair city, but unfortunately time would not allow.

[Nan]

What a great, great thing making the tables from the trees. Just wonderful. And I love breakfast. Bread, pancakes, French toast, cereal are all my favorite foods.

[Cornflower]

I've just put up a link to the recipe today, Donna!