The Cottage Cafe Bistro — Restaurant in Scotland

We saw this place a few times when passing on the bus to LARGS & decided to call in on Monday 27th June 2022. You enter round the back of the building & it's a nice area to behold with a few outdoor wooden tables & seats. The all day full breakfast was lovely even though the top area of my link sausage was a bit overdone but didn't spoil the taste & the tattie scone wasn't all soggy with grease. My chicken soup wasn't at all watery but could have been a bit warmer, but I gess with creme in it, it shouldn't be too hot 🔥 anyway. They do good quality tasting Porellies ice cream BUT it ain't as good as the Esplanade café. That's best tasting ice cream for miles & miles around. PS. Watch out for the crack in the toilet 🚽 for the disabled if u have to sit on the seat. Returned again on Friday 16th September 2022 with my friend & I had the Chicken soup BUT I don't think it had cream in it when I done my last review & there was none in it this time. I asked for it hot & it came that way BUT it had a slight greasy coating on top yet the soup tasted real good with bits of chicken🐥in it & the slightest greasy coating on top would no doubt help lubricate my arthritic joints. My stake pie was very good & there were NO bits of tough or fat meat in it & there was a lovely tasty piece of puff pastry on top, there was plenty of thick gravity but a wee bit too strong tasting for me & the brussel sprouts weren't too bad either. I was a bit disappointed with the mashed tatties, they were a bit too dry & only luke warm. I was a wee bit disappointed that there was NO custard left to accompany my Carmel apple betty, but I got a choice of ice cream, skushie cream (aerosol) or pouring cream. I opted for the later. Still it was a most enjoyable afternoon out & so far the staff were easy to converse with & I was told that there was a new toilet 🚽 seat fitted just after I last reported it...

My brother introduced this lovely bistro to us a couple of years ago. He used to take his Wife who had MS to visit all the time. Sadly we were visiting Greenock for her funeral this week. We were staying at Gleddoch house hotel but opted out of eating breakfast there to eat here. The staff were very friendly both to us Humans and our little dog, there is even a doggy menu which on this occasion resulted in our Willow being hand fed a couple of link sausages! There is always a nice atmosphere in the place and it will continue to be a go to for our trips...

was in for lunch with my friend, we ordered two Calzone omelettes, with cheese, ham and mushrooms. only brought 1 and had to wait on another one, when we realised there was no cheese. so had to wait again for this to be fixed. when paying we were told we got a bit of money taken off for mistake but we were actually overcharged. we used to get this regularly and it always came with salad. the price has now went up and comes with no salad. really...