The Gardener's Cottage Edinburgh
The Gardener's Cottage couldn't have a more appropriate name, as it sits right in the middle of Royal Terrace Gardens in a cottage. It is truly a tiny, quaint place. I wanted to have one nice meal while we were in Edinburgh and it was perfect. And there were vegetables(!), which I had been missing a bit on some meals earlier in the week...
The menu is prix-fixe multi-course and the tables are communal. We had seven courses since we were there on a Saturday night, some nights have a five course option. They were also very accommodating of allergies.
After drinks and bread, the first course was a tapioca puff with ham and a polenta cube with apple. Both were really yummy.
Next up was garlic, spinach soup with whey foam and toasted almonds and sprinkled with mysterious powder (or if we were told what it was, I never caught it, which is possible with the Scottish accent...).
I had a great view of the tiny kitchen from my table. And I pretty much spent the whole night watching the action. The fish course was Sea Bream with really yummy potatoes.
After seeing lamb and sheep all week, this was the first opportunity to eat any, lamb with broccoli and broccoli puree.
And a cheese plate.
A palate cleanser of rhubarb sorbet with white chocolate mousse.
Dessert was ganache with honeycomb and sea buckthorn sorbet. I've never eaten sea buckthorn before and it was either sweet or sour depending on which order we tried it. The ganache was super chocolatey.
And finally, petit fours - chocolate and apple.
