Cookie Restaurant Review

Cookie http://www.cookiescotland.com/ is a newish restaurant in walking distance from my flat. I've been passed and it looked nice so I was keen to try it and suggested Kiki and myself go for breakfast when she was staying at mine last weekend.

Initially we thought it was closed as there was no one inside except staff but we checked the opening times on the door and it opens at 10am on a Sunday and this was now 11:30. Open an hour and a half and the waitress seemed surprised, nay, horrified when we entered and when we asked if we could sit anywhere she asked in a panicked way if we were just having coffee.We said we were hoping for breakfast and were duly seated and given a rather unclear menu. 'What is a stornoway stack?' Kiki asks 'Scrambled eggs' says the waitress 'no it's not' she then says 'what is it?' she asked the chef who tells us that it is french toast, stornoway black pudding and a poached egg.

Waitress: 'The black pudding is lovely'
Kiki: 'Well we're both vegetarian'
Waitress: 'oh, well it's really lovely'
Me: ' It doesn't matter how lovely it is, we are still not going to have it'
Waitress: 'Oh but it's really nice'

She brings us some water and we peruse the menu a bit more - highlights include 'Jams at £1.50 which I hope means a whole jar.

Then we are asked to move to another table in the entirely empty restaurant as the one we are sitting at is reserved from 12:30. ridiculous but we had already whispered to each other that we had been sat at the worst table in the place so we moved.

Then we decided that the menu was over priced and offered a poor choice for vegetarians so we decide to just have coffee and go to tapa http://www.tapabakehouse.com/ for  a full veggie breakkie instead.

We order our coffee (It was very nice btw) then a man comes over to remove our cutlery and grumbles that he thought we were eating what was wrong? Kiki says 'you don't have much choice for vegetarians'

Man- almost shouting: 'The risotto is vegetarian'    which frankly proves our point that there is not much for vegetarians.

I say 'we wanted breakfast though'  I mean who eats risotto at 11:30? why would we pay to go somewhere where we are told what we are to eat when tapa just round the corner has several choices? Why were we pretty much told it was coffee only and grudgingly allowed breakfast when risotto was almost forced upon us?

why why why?