Scottish Borders
The Bantry

The Bantry

20/24 High Street, TD14 5EU, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom

Coffee • Cheese • Panini • Chocolate


"27th July, popped into the place to ask when they opened in the morning. Sign outside said breakfasts served. Female informed us 9am for opening. 28th July, 9.10am I visited the place on my own waiting for my friends. Went in and thee female asked me if I was wanting something to eat, I replied yes and she informed me 'it will be a good wee while before you can get anything ' without actually looking at me. I said are you open, female 'yes we are but nothing is switched on '!!!!! I ordered my lot from a fairly benign young man and waited for my friends. I had a roll and fried egg and tea. It was alright but you cant really go wrong with that but it was ok. My friends arrived and took their places and ordered, my dear friend ordered 2 poached eggs with toast. And a separate helping of toast. His breakfast came and the most unusual poached eggs any of us had ever seen were on the plate. Flat, exactly like fried eggs. My friend returned the plate to the counter and asked again for poached eggs. Oh hell. This female horror show arrived and rudely informed my friend, all of us and another party in the place 'they are poached, I poached them myself in the microwave with water ' her tone, body language and behaviour was unacceptable on all levels. 'I 'll make you them the old fashioned way but it 'll be a good ten minutes ' A horror of a person, horror. They were told to forget it and all of us, six people, left. Prior to leaving my friends wife spoke to the horror, more so to explain why her husband had left. The horror, rude, ignorant and abruptly stated 'when you 're cooking for 50 people that 's how it 's done. She was in formed only one person, not 50, had asked for poached eggs. At this the benign adolescent piped up 'that 's my mother ' slamming the till as my friend paid for her half eaten scrambled eggs which was still on the table. Well that just tells you everything. A despicable individual without any courtesy, manners or social skills to be honest. GO ELSEWHERE. An amazing weekend we had spent prior to that incident. Everywhere we went and everyone we met could not have been more obliging or friendly. Amazing food in The Contented Sole, Oblo, Ebbcars. You have been warned, dont come crying to TripAdvisor after she turns her horror show on you."

Contented Sole

Contented Sole

3-4 Old Quay Harbour Road, Eyemouth TD14 5HS, United Kingdom, Scottish Borders

Pub • Steak • British • Scottish


"Absolutely abysmal experience. Creaky floorboards and a narrow gloomy staircase leading up to the restaurant. Not to mention the fact that the crappers were right beside the dine in area so the stench of logs was pungent throughout the whole joint, completely ruining the entire atmosphere. Come the drinks, My vodka n' Coke had about 2ml of vodka in it. At first I didn't even think they'd added any in, genuinly just absurdly shocking amounts of vodka being added in. Next, the food, we'd ordered 3 plates which took 53 MINUTES TO ARRIVE and in that time we'd witnessed 5 other tables of people arrive AND recieve their food before us. My eventual steak was cooked medium well even though id asked for RARE!!! which i think was done to hide the fact that it was both frozen and showed signs of rotting as it tasted like meat flavoured sand paper. The caustic meat had riddled me with severe food poisoning which then lead to crohns disease. What I had to accommodate my rotting cow arse was half a bag of brids eye frozen peas dumped on the side coming straight from the microwave with a pool of defrosted ice to go underneath it, 4 frozen garlic mushrooms, 2 half decent onion rings and just to rub salt in the wound, 2 mouldy rings. The chips were okay but all in all, come to Contented Sole if you want to test your immune system against corrosive decomposing food"

Simply Scottish

Simply Scottish

6-8 High Street, TD8 6AG, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom

Steak • Vegan • Coffee • Scottish


"we called for lunch well known that it was a regular place, not a veg / vegan only eat. After a dame was shown in a few minutes on a table, she returned and asked if we wanted menus. I looked like a thought reader or a bright watcher. we ordered 2x roasted sandwiches with roasted vig and mushrooms, 2 ginger beers. eating lasted 45 minutes to arrive, no advice that it would take this time, the place was not busy. cute as if it were a choir. cute in 2 paper napkins. not placed per person. has she been a customer in a restaurant or caffe? further disappointment was the toast normal supermarket square white brot. the mushrooms and the veg. were good, but it could have been so much better with the “Profi” brot from a local baker. was the sauce in a sandwich vegan? hmm. salat was the usual boring eisberg plus tomaten etc. No one asked if our eating would be in order, no one asked if we wanted something else, coffee or tee. I waited to pay as soon as it was obvious that no one came to the table again, a long wait. the same server asked if we wanted to sit outside or inside. she was completely obsessed that she served us. completely unintentional of personality or ability. the owners of the place can not be very switched on if they cannot see that the staff is so poor. Maybe it was their first job, but either they hadn't done any co-workers training or she just overhauled the job or vegan. they simply do not go home with expectations to anything they do not themselves in a quarter of the time, but better."