Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Reading Lasses, Wigtown

Reading Lasses is a wonderful bookshop and cafe in Scotland's National Booktown, Wigtown. The cafe has expanded in the last year and there is now seating throughout most of the bookshop. The menu has maintained it's high standard and there are also bistro nights held mainly at weekends but every night during the annual Book Festival in the autumn. 
   I have to be honest, here, and own up to the fact that this is one of my favourite tearooms in the area. They have a great array of cakes including gluten free. I usually have the ginger tiffin but, for research purposes only you understand, I ordered the Rocky Road yesterday. It did have unusually large pieces of biscuit, digestive I think, and small marshmallows. It was good but not outstanding in terms of content, the rest was a bit of a mush, but what saves this Rocky Road from the ordinary is the fact that Reading Lasses use Montezuma's chocolate. This is high quality, fairly traded cocoa rich chocolate and they make the most ordinary traybake into something to be slowly savoured. 
So top marks for the chocolate but once again, there were no cherries. Sorry, but I do like cherries in Rocky Road. 


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