[Closed] Gentrification - its gone too far!

Looks terrible, how you must have suffered etc etc

No avocado?

Theres something gone very, very, very wrong when the dominant element in a cooked breakfast is a tomato

+points for what looks like a slice of fried spam

Besides that is clearly not a traditional greasy spoon, the floor isn't lino the tables have 1 leg instead of 4 uneven ones and there are no red, brown and yellow squeezy containers for the watered down tomato and brown sauces and mustard. It even says bistro on the cup FFS you only have yourself to blame.

Shocking I tell you! I am slowly working my way round the local cafes getting brunches - so far I have had pomegranate seeds on eggs benedict, coriander on a fried breakfast, everything seems to be soughdough toast not nice healthy white bread
its shocking I tell you. My nearest proper greasy spoon has closed down so all I can get is hipster food. 5 other people in the cafe. 2 men - both with man buns and hipster beards!

Were those curated herbs foraged from the nearest gutter?

+points for what looks like a slice of fried spam

Square sausage mate - makes spam look edible!

No avocado?

they did have smashed avocado toast on the menu!

Get Yerself to Wetherspoons, full breakfast and a pint.

I tried to get a traditional greasy spoon breakfast

That's what ye get for living in Edinburgh, call it your penance! 😆

Theres something gone very, very, very wrong when the dominant element in a cooked breakfast is a tomato

This^^
and it looks like they have overdone the square sausage,cretins.
I do however approve of beans being kept isolated from ....EVERYTHING.

🙂

I'm hungy now... that looks great.

Bring back Little Chef. Couldn't beat an Olympian.

...

I am now pondering the Venn overlap between actual Olympians, and people who'd ordered an Olympian at a Little Chef.

Apart from the beans in a pot, the tomato pumped full of 'roids and the ball-sack poachies, that looks great

I do however approve of beans being kept isolated from ….EVERYTHING.

Agreed. The only way they could have improved it even further is by leaving the silly little bowl in the kitchen. Or not even opening the damn tin in the first place.

Vile things.

Pomegranate on eggs benedict? 🤮

I am now pondering the Venn overlap between actual Olympians, and people who’d ordered an Olympian at a Little Chef.

My guess - it's nil.

TJ, sounds great to me, sourdough is superior bread, end of.

Apart from the beans in a pot, the tomato pumped full of ‘roids and the ball-sack poachies, that looks great

you left salad garnish off the list

If you get a baguette in our local with salad instead of chips, you get strawberries, blueberries and grapes in the salad? I mean wft!

Pomegranate is the King Fruit according to the Moors of days gone past and every fruit has the same number of seeds. Enjoy that fact whilst growing a man bun, it's a brave new world!

MSP - my closest proper greasy spoon closed down last week - this was the nearest thing to a proper cafe I could find!

and the fact that it’s clean, has laminate flooring, everything painted in muted Farrow & Ball, and a bloody vine creeping up a column, didn’t hint to you maybe you’d stepped through the wrong door? 🤣

This.

Finest full grease of course is this place.

You’ve identified a number of serious failings with that breakfast. But for me the minuscule portion of beans in a little pot is the real crime. I want an island of sausage, egg and toast floating in a sea of beans.

Finest full grease of course is this place.

Not any more, sadly.

I love pete's eats.
Had a fair number of days in there when it was too grim to go outside, trying to wipe enough condensation away to see outside

Oh no it looks like they used good quality ingredients - horrendous.

I'd be happy with that, if I'd expected an interpretation of the Full Scottish, but not if I'd wanted the real thing. Needs more tradesmen shaking dust and talking to Jewsons on the mobile.

Since I read your post while my bacon was cooking, here's my lunch.
http://imgur.com/a/Gf8PsLI

Not any more, sadly.

Noooooo.

Since when and what happend?

(It's at least 10 years since I was in there...)

Looks good*, fried bread gives my the dry boak.

*apart from the deep fried tattie scone, and overcooked slice sausage natch.

every fruit has the same number of seeds. Enjoy that fact

I call fake news!

No black pudding?

This is an outrage!

every fruit has the same number of seeds. Enjoy that fact

What a load of shite.

Just as well it's lunch time, that's got me salivating. Go on give us the address, that's worth naming and faming.

I see you took your own mug 😛

Potato farl? That would make up for the other sons for me 🤤

Can you just post details on my "things to do in Edinburgh" thread, I draw the line at coriander on a fry up. I draw the line at coriander on anything, to be fair

What is the world coming to.

“Square sausage”! Honestly ye ken nihin. It’s ****ing Lorne, ken!

An fits at green shite on top, eh?

Ye bams are getting fit ye deserve!

No black pudding?

This is an outrage!

No - black pudding is the outrage - its not a foodstuff. ( I actually asked for no black pudding - disgusting stuff)

boudin noir however............

It was in "the clock on the shore"

Love square sausage. I know I’m on holiday when presented with a Calmac breakfast complete with square sausage.

At least your beans weren’t “deconstructed” though. Sign of peak hipster ****tery.

What on earth are deconstructed beans?

Also, surely boudin noir is black pudding? If you don't like black pudding you've probably just never had the good stuff.

Potato farl

Tattie scone!

I was being slightly facetious @grum, though there is definitely a trend for deconstructing recipes and, as far as I can tell, save the chef time as you have to finish putting the meal together on their behalf. I guess the nearest for deconstructed beans would be a plate of warm plain beans with a puddle of tomato sauce next to them. Mmmm, tasty.

Oh no it looks like they used good quality ingredients – horrendous

Like hot dogs, pies and kebabs, any self respecting breakfast should be made mainly from ‘lips’n’arseholes’

If you get a baguette in our local with salad instead of chips, you get strawberries, blueberries and grapes in the salad? I mean wft!

How do you even know that... who was presented with Baguette + Chips or Baguette + Salad and then admits to skipping the chips. This country is going to the dogs.

black pudding is the outrage – its not a foodstuff. ( I actually asked for no black pudding – disgusting stuff)

they probably heard that and decided your taste was wrong so put the corriander on top just for a laugh...

It is Grum - I was trying to make a joke about how its only acceptable with a posh name now we are gentrified!!

Indeed it was No beer!

Could be worse TJ, at least it's on a plate rather than a slate or reclaimed driftwood or a pint mug or something.

If you don’t like black pudding you’ve probably just never had the good stuff.

Could always tell a good one, by how it tasted "raw" **
Always used to turn the wifes stomach when she saw me doing so 😉

** yes I know it's cooked during production

Never got the love for Pete's Eats. Pint of tea? Only to disguise the long wait for very average food. Usually the server would have their thumb in whatever you ordered, and would invariably drop some onto the floor or spill it onto the table. You would not send it back, as that would mean another hours wait. Only saving grace was reading the wierd ads on the wall, or walking down the road to the little bakers to get a snack whilst you waited. I managed once to do a whole circuit of the town, including doing a bit of shopping, before our food arrived.

Love the idea of a fry up in a pint mug!

MSP +1 that ain't no greasy spoon, try harder..

My nearest proper greasy spoon has closed down so all I can get is hipster food

I'd say that was more to do with the grease spoons being rubbish, than gentrification. A business doesn't just go bust. We have a local(ish) posh cafe, fig and favour, which is lovely but I do object to paying £1.50 for a ramkin of heinz beans to add to my breakfast. Greasy spoons have their place (friday late morning/lunch time usually) but good food get my vote nowadays (CSON's in Ludlow & Shrewsbury.. I'm looking at you)

Since when and what happend?

Not been in for a few years now, but the quality was down, the waits were longer etc. I can still remember the glory days though.

Try getting a veggie full breakfast without it looking like a masterchef artwork.

Anything served to me on a slate or in a mini tin bucket gets sent back.

I'm with you on that one Brads

Must be Morningside...

Anything served to me on a slate or in a mini tin bucket gets sent back.

And comes back adorned with extra knob cheese.

Must be Morningside…

Nope - sunny leith

We ate out last night whilst on our Scotish holiday.
Speciality starter was deep fried battered black pudding.
It arrived neatly spaced between a dipping sauce and a medley of salad leaves

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Salad was left on the plate as the dog wouldn't eat it.

Had a home cooked bacon, mushroom, black pudding and runny fried egg bread cake for breakfast this morning just to restore my faith

And comes back adorned with extra knob cheese.

Maybe where you live but I'm from a civilised area.

Love the idea of a fry up in a pint mug!

There's something wrong with you, boy.

It arrived neatly spaced between a dipping sauce and a medley of salad leaves

No it didn't. The dipping sauce is neatly spaced between the black pudding and a medley of salad leaves. Unless you rearranged it before taking the photo.

Details, Tracey, details.

(-:

And comes back adorned with extra knob cheese.

Maybe where you live but I’m from a civilised area.

Seaside town of Smegness?

No – black pudding is the outrage – its not a foodstuff. ( I actually asked for no black pudding – disgusting stuff)

/banned

boudin noir however…………

Ah! Give it a fancy French name and some how it’s magically different.

No – black pudding is the outrage – its not a foodstuff. ( I actually asked for no black pudding – disgusting stuff)

Actually I'd ban you for that as well. I'm a bloody veggie, but jeez I could murder a black pudding roll with broon sauce.

Bring back Little Chef. Couldn’t beat an Olympian.

Dad and I went to the 1968 British GP at Brand's Hatch and on the way back stopped at a Little Chef on the A1 near Peterborough. It was like stepping into paradise.

Now I know poached egg is a bit out there on a fry up but I reckon the best fried breakfast I ever had was on a farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Bacon and sausage from their own pigs, poached egg from the hens running around outside. Magnificent.

Speaking of caffs, I think the best would be a toss up between Sid's (beloved of Troglodytes) and the Lover's Leap in Stoney Middleton before it became an Indian Restaurant ("Full set an' a pint o' tea"). It's be a long time though.

I want an island of sausage, egg and toast floating in a sea of beans.

Be honest, you just came here for an argument didn't you?

TJ, City Cafe on Blair Street is your friend here. They'll sort you out with a proper breakfast.

Beans have no place on a breakfast, unless you're some kind of deviant.

If they must be present then under no circumstances should bean juice ever come into contact with the egg. A sausage dam can be used to prevent this from happening

The best bit of any fry up is saving a bit of toast/fried bread for the mop up of fatty, juicy, eggy, plate soup at the end. Man, I want a fry up.

Does anyone have contact details for Binners? I think his account has been hacked.

Only a matter of time before someone mentions the cafe at Grindleford station, their breakfasts and the (now retired) miserable sod who used to run it…

Beans have no place on a breakfast, unless you’re some kind of deviant.
If they must be present then under no circumstances should bean juice ever come into contact with the egg. A sausage dam can be used to prevent this from happening

Placing the egg on a substantial trivet of fried bread (artisan sourdough / olive oil is ideal) also helps avoid contact if that is an issue.

Binners loves his artisan foodstuffs...

Only a matter of time before someone mentions the cafe at Grindleford station

It'll never happen.

TJ - could be worse...
https://twitter.com/wewantplates

If that doesn't fire up your taste buds, try the hipster menu crafter...
https://charlieharvey.org.uk/page/hipster_menu_crafter

brads
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Try getting a veggie full breakfast without it looking like a masterchef artwork.

Next time you are passing Penrith try the Rooster Cafe just off J40. Once they get past the panic of finding the veggie ingredients you will get the full greasy slap up

every fruit has the same number of seeds

Pretty sure a peach doesn't have the same number of seeds as a melon.

Binners+1

I do however approve of beans being kept isolated from ….EVERYTHING.

I thought that was just me with that issue. Beans must always be segregated.

Petes Eats is pretty rubbish these days best head to Caban instead.

Beans have no place on a breakfast, unless you’re some kind of deviant.

I’m old enough to have no shame. The satisfaction of breaking a runny yolk so it slides and congeals amongst a pool of beans… 😋