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I’d visited Quay Commons for coffee last year when they’d just taken on the premises on Commercial Quay and were working out their offering.
From the team behind Gardener’s Cottage, Quay Commons is a cafe, open all day with a strong coffee offering from Williams & Johnson.
It is licensed – with well thought out beer and wine options – and has a developing hot food menu.
So overall, Quay Commons still has a little bedding in to do but is a really impressive new addition to our cafe options.
Scores Blythe scores Quay Commons 4.5/5 for food 4/5 for presentation 3.5/5 for service 4.5/5 for setting giving an overall 16.5/20
Quay Commons : British (Modern) : Bite Magazine
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Not being able to expand their restaurant in Royal Terrace Gardens, the logical step was to find somewhere so they could make their fabulous sourdough en-masse (they won several awards at the Scottish Bread Champions this year); a place to butcher and cure meat, a place to experiment, a place to cultivate quality.
The stripped back interior of the former Mediterranean restaurant, it's cool, funky and laid back, with wine, cookbooks, and jars of ingredients fermenting on shelves.
Delving into two types of Peelham salami, a bowl of olives and cornichon (small gherkins) that balance the rich fattiness of the home-smoked mutton belly.
Coffee and a selection of sweetie goodies arrives to finish us off; sticky brownie made from Chocolate Tree bean to bar, a poufy pink-duoed marshmallow (beetroot and raspberry masked in chocolate) and a bostock (a jam and nut topped brioche bun).
A note about our wine; I had St John rosé (Quay Commons is the only place in Edinburgh to serve their wines) and Mr H had a rather nice pinot noir.
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Quay Commons is billed as "an industrious space to bake our famous sourdough bread en masse; a place to butcher and cure meat; a place to experiment and test new dishes and ingredients; a place to cultivate quality and integrity".
It’s all sound stuff, but what I love about Quay Commons is how these pleasures in their own right are a platform for a simple, fresh, savoury offer that’s predicated on enticingly prepared seasonal vegetables, with the circumspect adjunct of well-selected fish and meats.
Juicy tomatoes of the less standard variety (every tomato we eat here is special, red/green/yellow, with irregular dimensions, juicy, refreshingly acidic), new potatoes, thinly sliced radish, allotment-style leaves that include little chards, peppery bronze cress, all tangled in tender herb pickings, fennel, coriander, mint, parsley.
The term "filled roll" takes on a new meaning at Quay Commons.
New on the block, Quay Commons is still evolving, and I do like its direction of travel.
Gardener's Cottage expands to Leith. - Your Scottish Tour
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Edinburgh restaurant, Gardener’s Cottage, is expanding with the launch of a new premises – Quay Commons – in Leith.
Occupying a former bonded warehouse at 92 Commercial Street, Quay Commons is an open plan bakery, with a bar and eating space where patrons can enjoy a daily market menu alongside bread, house-cured charcuterie and carefully selected wines.
Co-Founder and Chef Proprietor, Dale Mailley, comments: We are humbled to be opening a sister restaurant to our much-loved, Gardener’s Cottage, and that Leith – an iconic part of Edinburgh with such a rich heritage of food – will be our home.
Saturday – Sunday: 09.00-21.00 Quay Commons 1 SA : Ed and Dale of Quay Commons, Leith, Edinburgh.
Quay Commons 92 Commercial Street Edinburgh EH6 6LX 0131 554 6681
Quay Commons, restaurant review, Edinburgh - Scotsman Food and ...
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This is what happens when you arrive 35 minutes early for lunch, because nobody answers the phone at the restaurant, you can’t seem to make a reservation online, and you’re meeting two friends who are VERY excited to be experiencing the newest project from the Gardener’s Cottage team.
Also, the breakfast menu looks great, with options including black pudding and apple bun (£3.50), but we stuck to a selection of bits from the Noon to Night menu, served from 12pm until late (well, 6pm).
They re-appeared on our salad plate (£5), which also featured a courgette, rosemary and thyme mixture, and potato, carrot tops and dill.
We were a bit sad that the lobster brioche bun (£10), as per the menu outside, wasn’t available, so we went for the slightly less exotic version with chicken and radish (£7) instead.
Still, it took us to bun-vana, with a yeasty and perfectly spherical lid and a filling of soft chicken shreds, radish discs and a mustardy rich mayo, plus some lovely yellow tomato wedges of the sort they call heirloom (because they grow in grannies’ attics presumably) and some interesting leaves that looked as if they might have been plucked from Gardener’s Cottage’s own allotment.
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