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<\/a>\n⬆\ufe0e Pork roll with Yorkshire pudding, Royal Hotel, Stornaway<\/em><\/p>\n
Traditional Scottish cooking is strangely difficult to find. Many eateries — especially in places that cater to tourists — offer what I call “international tourist cuisine,” which is mostly Mediterranean and is pretty much the same wherever you go. On this year’s trip to Scotland I found that provincial hotels are the best places to find traditional cooking.<\/p>\n
⬆\ufe0e Slow-braised beef and Yorkshire pudding, Royal Hotel, Stornaway. The Royal Hotel at Stornaway definitely was the best dining room I found on this trip. When I sent compliments to the chef, the waiter said that there are three chefs and that all of them are Nepalese. I don’t know where they were trained, but they are very good.<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Scotch broth, Royal Hotel, Stornaway<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Bread basket, Royal Hotel, Stornaway<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Oven-roasted salmon, Harris Hotel, Tarbert<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Vegetarian haggis croquettes, Harris Hotel, Tarbert<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e I spent a day in Oxford on this trip. This is a salad from Quod restaurant in Oxford<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Salmon patties, Quod restaurant, Oxford<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Ravioli, Quod restaurant, Oxford<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Vegetarian breakfast at C\u00f4te Brasserie in Oxford<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Meat pie from the high street bakery at Dunbar<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Vegetable-beef pie from the high street bakery at Dunbar<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Vegetarian breakfast with fake sausage, Royal Hotel, Stornaway<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Royal Hotel, Stornaway<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Shortbread, Skoon art cafe, Geocrab, isle of Harris<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e Harris Hotel, Tarbert, isle of Harris<\/p>\n ⬆\ufe0e This is a home-cooked meal, made on a Coleman stove in a yurt. It’s mashed rutabaga with pork chop and pasta in orange sauce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ⬆\ufe0e Pork roll with Yorkshire pudding, Royal Hotel, Stornaway Traditional Scottish cooking is strangely difficult to find. Many eateries — especially in places that cater to tourists — offer what I call “international tourist cuisine,” which is mostly Mediterranean and is pretty much the same wherever you go. On this year’s trip to Scotland I … Continue reading “Some Scottish food porn”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16972,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions\/16972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n