Driftwood Restaurant — Restaurant in Scotland

I’m a little bit flipping back and forth about this review.

We came here and asked for a table , getting one right away , we made our order. A large breakfast, Cup of tea, a cheese panini ,and a hot chocolate.

Sitting and waiting we notice it’s a very clean and pleasant cafe, and quite popular too , by the looks of it.

The staff, I say staff, it looked like the manager and her cook only , and the manager seemed to be running around a little bit chasing herself.

Our drinks came and the tea was nice but I just did not get the cup to drink it in, no handle and it would be something I’d only expect at home. The hot Chocolate was luke warm and weak to say the least , but certainly not anywhere near hot.

The food. The manager came to the table With the panini (which was in fact a baguette sliced open , maybe we thought that’s what they call a panini here?) but it was burnt , really burnt on the edges, in fact the manager herself even asked my partner if it was too burnt for her? Yes of course the response was. But come on if you are having to ask the customer if it’s too burnt, then surely you already know it’s burnt and should not be sent out to a customer! Later she came out with a fresh one ( by then I’d almost finished my breakfast) which had some cheese melted and some not so melted, but certainly not like a panini!

The large breakfast The hash brown was really nice and the haggis was amazing, the egg was cooked perfectly and really good. The bacon was not that good ( I’m not sure if this was just my personal taste of bacon as it was smoked bacon,or certainly tasted smoked) and the sausage was really hard and chewy. Yes I ate it all, I was so hungry I’d have eaten anything. Not a lot of choice either , a very small amount of food for a breakfast.

The price £22.05 for a large breakfast one panini that was not a panini a cup of tea and a hot chocolate. :-(

I feel they’re trying hard to achieve something better than they are providing, it’s a shame as you can see they are really trying to do this but in my opinion it’s not there yet.

Would I visit again? Sadly not as it is...

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