Taking the tea party to the festival.

 Today we got to play outside. We transported cakes and cookies and giant red teapots and old fashioned lemonades to feed visitors to the Montana Clematis Festival in Wemyss Castle Gardens. 

We dressed a fairly non-descript polytunnel with bunting and glass cake domes and hanging vases. People sat on old wooden school chairs at tables with table cloths weighted with mighty geraniums. We turned old old clay pots into cutlery holders and napkin holders and we chatted all day long to very nice people visiting the gardens and buying plants and enjoying the warmth of the day.

The Montana Clematis Festival at Wemyss Castle Gardens runs until Sunday 2nd June. Come along and say hello!!

Seafood and Steak night.

Seafood and Steak Night

7th/8^th June 2013

£20/head 

King scallops

with Stornoway black pudding and cauliflower puree

Cullen Skink

with peat smoked haddock and cream

King prawns

in light tempura batter with sweet chilli butter

Stornway black pudding and bacon salad

 with apple and roasted shallots

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Chef’s Surf and Turf

8oz rib eye steak with king prawns and spring onion mash and finished with garlic butter

Shetland Mussels

in a garlic, cream and white wine broth

Locally landed langoustine platter

with home-made puffy chips and dill and lemon butter drizzle

Pan fried seabass

with balsamic butterand spring onion and olive mash

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Cranachan with Perthshire raspberries and basil shortbread

Lemonny lemon posset

Bitter chocolate torte with berries

The West Wemyss Walk Inn, 61-63 Main St. West Wemyss 01592 652001

Great new chef. Fabulous new menu. And a free glass of wine with every evening meal.

 Our new chef, Tomasz, is fabulous and we're delighted to have him on board. His first full weekend with us was incredibly busy and he is now serving a lovely menu all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

photo by Carole fitzgerald

Whereas Fish Fridays were simply fish and chip days in the bistro during the day, we are now also serving delicious chowders, bruschettas, mussels and risottos all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Tomasz now also serves a Sunday roast from 12.30 on Sunday - Leg of Lamb with all the trimmings - and his Sunday morning breakfasts now include a full cooked vegetarian breakfast, which proved really popular last weekend. As did the French toast with bacon and maple syrup!!

photo by carole fitzgerald

Tomasz' Fri/Sat evening bistro menu was also really popular, and to encourage you to come along and try his fabulous food, we are offering a free glass of wine to every evening bistro customer.

photo by carole fitzgerald

The village is starting to come back to life after a long winter and the lighter nights mean that we can once again enjoy our views across The River Forth towards Edinburgh. We hope very much that you are tempted to come along and enjoy not just our food and our setting, but the lovely village of West Wemyss.

photo by carole fitzgerald

photo by carole fitzgerald

photo by carole fitzgerald

Good luck to our lovely Chloe.

We are losing our lovely Chloe. She's been working with us part time for a while, in between studying to be an accountant. She wrote the loveliest resignation letter that I have ever read, and I'm going to frame it for our wall because it says everything about the lovely girl that she is.

Entering into the party spirit
photo by Carole Fitzgerald

Chloe gets involved in loads of things here in West Wemyss. She smiles and makes customers happy. She's clever. Conscientious. Ambitious. Kind. We're delighted that she'll continue to volunteer at events in the village and we're going to beg and beg for her to come back and help out in the busy days of summer.

Celebrating The Walk Inn's first birthday
Photo by Carole Fitzgerald

We'll miss her as much as we wish her well!