Reopened after its summer holiday, Marie Delices, Morningside’s charming French creperie, seems set to go from strength to strength. Bubbling with fresh ideas, its young proprietress has extended the menu to include new crepes and galettes, still more enticing cakes with emphasis on gluten-free ingredients and, if you fancy a Proustian madeleine to go with your coffee, it’s there for the asking. This has become quite our favourite place within easy reach of Fairmilehead, where we live.
Back from our own holidays, we celebrated our return with a sampling of the new things on the menu - in my case the immaculate, spicy buckwheat galette of anchovies, capers, cheese and large thin slices of tomato, folded into an enticing plate-sized brown envelope. My wife’s choice, also a newcomer to the menu, incorporated ham, cheese, sauteed onions and mustard, with sweet crepes of stewed apples, caramel, and creme chantilly for our daughters. As an assembly of flavours, they formed a veritable feast, augmented for me by a glass of Kronenbourg beer as an alternative to the juicy house cider imported from Britanny. .
Will a house wine be added to the menu? A cool glass of Muscadet would be just right, as would a genuine French cafe creme in addition to the other coffees - and not only during the Edinburgh Festival. Places such as Marie Delices - small yet comfortably roomy, with its big stove in the kitchen at the rear, where Marie visibly works, and its deft French decor - are just what are needed in Edinburgh.
When we arrived for lunch yesterday, a French couple were sitting in the window, a solitary traveller was scanning the menu, two families had merged in the middle of the room, and a large tray of galettes was being carried to a customer on the other side of Comiston Road. What sight could be more inviting? Even Marcel Proust, in his Parisian privacy, would get just what he wanted as he listened to Faure’s latest violin sonata.
Marie Delices is at 125 Comiston Road, on the left-hand side going up.
8 August 2014
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