• Simply Scottish

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Serves meat, vegan options available. Cafe offering sandwiches, wraps and burgers with vegan items clearly labelled. Includes a portobello mushroom flatbread with sun-dried tomatoes and basil pesto, cauliflower pakora salad with almonds, mushroom potato skin or bowl of chips, and sometimes a soup of the day. Has a choice of two cakes. Soya milk available for hot drinks. Open Mon-Sun 10:00-16:00.


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9 Reviews

First Review by FayS

AbiM

Points +4279

Vegan
03 Sep 2024

Well looked after

The menu has 4 vegan things, so we ordered them all and shared. Flat bread seems homemade, like a pan bread? Very generous toppings of sun dried tomato etc, so tasty. Salad also nice and again cauli pakoras seemed homemade, great. Then we shared a cake and coffees. On the way out we saw that the soup would have also been vegan! We were well looked after on our table. It was a Monday otherwise we would have gone further to Out There Artisan (but they aren’t open on Mons and Tues). Glad we tried this place anyway!

Pros: Tasty

Cons: Limited choice a bit

andy092

Points +64

Vegan
06 Sep 2023

Lovely cafe

staff are very friendly. I arrived here at about 2.30pm on a busy day. I had this lovely vegan breakfast, very good service 👍.

Pros: Friendly staff, Good atmosphere

TheEverydayVegan

Points +641

Vegan
22 Jan 2023

Glad we found it

We went on a Sunday for some vegan goodness. I had the vegan breakfast and my wife the falafel flatbread. Really enjoyed it. Very friendly and attentive service, delicious piece of vegan cake and they really looked after our wee girl bringing over crayons etc. Decent amount of vegan options for the Borders and reasonably priced. They also sell gifts and paintings in there and it’s a lovely atmosphere. Will be back.

Pros: Friendly team, Decent amount of options

Angie-Fife

Points +151

Vegan
12 Nov 2022

Great find !

Good selection of vegan options including flatbreads, sandwiches and soup.

ClareCarr-Cullen

Points +26

Vegan
21 Oct 2022

Smashing wee spot

Great vegan options and a lovely friendly wee place. Cauliflower salad, vegan breakfast and biscoff slice were highlights.

Pros: Lots of vegan options, Delicious cauliflower salad, Sweet treats

jamesthomsonn

Points +680

Vegan
13 Sep 2022

Several well labelled vegan cakes & mains

Very nice cafe, well labelled vegan options, plant milk available. Large interior & space outside too. Baguettes, soups, flatbreads. Please continue to add more!

Pros: Several vegan options, cakes & mains

Cons: Lots of non vegan options

KlausThomassen

13 Sep 2022

VeganfoodieD

Points +141

Vegan
20 Jul 2022

Lovely food and service

A few options to choose from, I had a lovely toasted baguette with vegan cheese and Mediterranean vegetables. Also had a choice of 2 cakes I had the strawberry and banana muffin which was really good. The service was brilliant, even although they were really busy at it was one of the hottest days of the year.

Pros: A few vegan options , Options for dessert , Great service

Cons: A little pricey

Ghiribizzo

Points +224

Vegetarian
02 Jul 2021

Absolutely average

We called in for lunch well aware it was a regular place, not a veg/vegan only eatery.
After being shown to a table a lady returned in a few minutes and asked if we wished menus. Perhaps I looked like a mind reader or clairvoyant…

We ordered 2x toasted sandwiches with roast veg and mushrooms, 2 ginger beers.
The food took 45 minutes to arrive, no advice that it would take that time, the place was not busy.
Cutlery was put down as if it was such a chore. Cutlery in 2 paper napkins. Not placed out per person.
Has she ever actually been a customer in a restaurant or cafe?

Further disappointment was the toast was normal supermarket square white bread.
The mushrooms and veg. were fine but it could have been so much better with ‘proper’ bread from a local baker. Was the sauce in the sandwich vegan? Hmm…
Salad was the usual boring iceberg plus tomato etc.
No one asked if our food was ok, no one asked if we wished anything else, coffee or tea.
I waited to pay once it was obvious no one was coming to the table.
Again, a long wait. Same server asked if we wished to sit outside or inside. Completely oblivious that she’d served us.
Completely devoid of personality or ability.

The owners of the place can’t be very switched on if they can’t see the staff are so poor. Perhaps it was her first job, but either they’d not done any staff training or she just loathed the job, or vegans.
Just don’t go with expectations of anything you couldn’t do yourself in a quarter of the time at home, but better…

Pros: Some veg and vegan options.

Cons: Long wait for ‘fast’ food., Inexperienced inattentive staff

FayS

Points +227

Vegan
10 Aug 2020

Fantastic little spot!

Friendly and attentive staff despite it being really busy. Food was delicious, I had the vegan toast with haggis and red onion chutney. Would give 5 stars if I could!

Pros: Clearly marked vegan options, Fresh, tasty homemade food

Cons: None




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