# Breakfast in Edinburgh? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809 "2018-05-08T11:06:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/1 "2018-05-08T11:06:29Z")
I’m playing in a croquet competition in Balgreen in Edinburgh on Sunday. Where should I breakfast? I’m staying in the Holiday Inn on Corstorphine Road nearby. Do feel free to come and laugh at how inept I am. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/2 "2018-05-08T13:09:17Z")
Be sure you sample the haggis, black pudding, and kippers. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/3 "2018-05-08T13:44:30Z")
There’s a bit of a dearth of Sunday morning cafes and coffee shops in that area, in my experience. I fear I’d either eat at the hotel or take a 10 minute bus ride into Haymarket (Nomad opposite the station possibly) , or maybe the West End (Ryan’s Bar right on the junction or Maxime’s 50 yards down Queensferry Street), and then take a tram from either West End or Haymarket tram stops a couple of stops to the Balgreen stop and walk the 400 yards or so to your match… There are heaps of other places near my suggestions if you don’t fancy them. I’m prepping to move house, so I’m afraid I can’t come to laugh at you. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/4 "2018-05-08T15:00:34Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Be sure you sample the haggis, black pudding, and kippers. 🆒 And of course porridge (note that the Scots eat it with salt :eek: ) ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/5 "2018-05-08T15:03:59Z")
Doesn’t the hotel itself serve breakfast? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/6 "2018-05-08T15:21:55Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Doesn’t the hotel itself serve breakfast? Well yes, but I’m hoping to do better. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/7 "2018-05-08T15:25:58Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Be sure you sample the haggis, black pudding, and kippers. 🆒 🙂 For a treat, fry a slice of haggis (or cook a haggis and cut a slice), place a poached egg on the slice, and dress with Hollandaise sauce. This also works with black pudding and you can have a little fun by having one egg with black pudding and the other with black haggis. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/8 "2018-05-08T15:47:40Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > 🙂 > > For a treat, fry a slice of haggis (or cook a haggis and cut a slice), place a poached egg on the slice, and dress with Hollandaise sauce. This also works with black pudding and you can have a little fun by having one egg with black pudding and the other with black haggis. With bacon, of course! :o ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/9 "2018-05-08T17:55:10Z")
You might think so, but both work very well without. Unless you mean bacon on the side, in which case you are a Doper of resplendent taste. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/10 "2018-05-08T19:39:31Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > You might think so, but both work very well without. Unless you mean bacon on the side, in which case you are a Doper of resplendent taste. “\*\*Ayrshire \*\*bacon, no less!” he said, chowing down on a British full breakfast. 🆒 [https://www.ramsayofcarluke.co.uk/product-category/ayrshire-unsmoked-bacon/](https://www.ramsayofcarluke.co.uk/product-category/ayrshire-unsmoked-bacon/) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-in-edinburgh/813809/11 "2018-05-13T20:49:43Z")
> [@Meurglys](#): > > I’m prepping to move house, so I’m afraid I can’t come to laugh at you. You missed many opportunities. I played dreadfully. Shots went left and right but seldom centre; shots went long and short but seldom the right distance.