This little cafe sits right down at the harbour in St Abbs, a lovely village on the east coast of Scotland just north of Berwick upon Tweed. It's a great destination for bird watchers and divers.
The cafe serves a great Cullen Skink soup and fresh crab sandwiches. In the interests of the nationwide survey of Rocky Road I sampled their version of the popular traybake. This particular sample was the kind that has a base and then a separately applied topping. Good chocolate in the base but not sure what else was in there it was all pretty much mushed together. No cherries sadly. The top consisted of large marshmallows. So top marks for general taste and for marshmallow but the lack of cherries or any chunks of anything else means that I can only give it a 6/10.
Warning for anyone visiting. Seagulls. Seriously. The waitress warned me to keep a close watch on my Rock Road or the seagulls would steal it - we were sitting outside I hasten to add. I thought she was joking but two particularly menacing gulls never took their eyes off our food and one managed to twice steal the butter from my husband's plate. We found it quite funny but small children, or anyone with a phobia of birds would find it pretty alarming. My advice would be to sit inside the cafe because it would be a shame to miss the excellent Cullen Skink and Crab sandwiches.
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