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[food] David Bann

sebastienne, shortcipher and I went to David Bann on our last day in Edinburgh. My overall verdict: interesting and tasty, but nothing I couldn't identify and nothing I'm not confident I could (work out how to) make to equivalent standard, and nothing so utterly baffling I'd never have considered putting it together and was astonished by how well it worked and how much I liked it. I'd happily go again and enjoy myself, but it's not something I'm going to spend time thinking about starry-eyed and dazed in the same way I do Vanilla Black. Which is an unfair yardstick, because by any other measure it's very good!

(At this stage, I'm afraid this is going to be brief notes rather than anything more in-depth, in a slightly desperate attempt to get it done before I forget everything. Sorry also for the terrible phone camera photos; still very much suspiciously getting the hang!)

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In front: hot peach and vanilla tart with raspberry ice cream
At back: "Whole raspberry jelly served on thinly sliced caramel pineapple topped with rum coconut sorbet. Served with Amaretto soaked figs."

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... yep, everything was tasty and I would happily go back. :-)

[food] okay fine this was a good idea and I'm doing it again

Pineapple upside-down cake, right, only instead of sponge you use banana-bread batter. (Trivially veganable: substitute hard vegetable fat of your preference for butter, and one banana per egg.)

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