The Seaforth

Ullapool The Seaforth bar and restaurant is located in the centre of Ullapool close to the ferry terminal. The All day breakfast, as it is advertised, is only served between 0900 and 1200. I think you should probably change the name of this. The restaurant/bar has plenty of room in it but it is still cosy with a nice open fire near the bar, which is stocked with plenty of whisky, enough to make anyone thirsty. We were seated immediately and the food arrived within 15 minutes. The breakfast was served with toast, but there was no choice of brown or white. There was also no choice of eggs. The fried egg that was served was over cooked as the egg wasn’t runny and it was probably cooked at too high a heat as the bottom of the egg was crispy. The breakfast appears grilled but it only comes with one sausage which was a bit tough however the black pudding was good. One slice of chargrilled bacon is served with the breakfast which tasted excellent, it’s just a shame there was only one rasher though. Mushrooms and a grilled slice of tomato was also on the plate along with stingiest amount of beans ever seen on a breakfast. The beans also looked like they were re-heats as they were clumpy with no bean juice. Finally the tattie scone was the nicest we have tried with a dash of pepper on the top to enhance its flavour. There is also the option to add a lorne sausage for £1 extra but we only noticed this option once it was too late to order it. The cost of this breakfast is £6.25 or £7.25 with the lorne sausage. Tea or coffee costs £1.50 extra which takes the total to £8.75. The breakfast contains quite a lot of ingredients and is only missing haggis, the choice of how you would like your eggs cooked and a choice of white or brown toast in order to be eligible to achieve 5 stars. However the quantity of the ingredients leaves you hungry as there was only one rasher of bacon and one sausage where usually you get two, there was also very few beans. The breakfast gained points for having a tomato and mushrooms, although there was very few mushrooms. If you remove the toast from the plate, the breakfast looks really small, and it was, as we were all still hungry. There were some beautiful flavours coming from the bacon and tattie scone but the over cooked egg, clumpy beans, tough sausage and small portions lose this breakfast another point. If the portions were bigger and all the food was cooked to perfection then this breakfast would easily score 4 stars but it only scores 3 out of 5 for now. In summary this is a breakfast that has some of the best cooked produce we have tried and also some of the worst cooked – eggs, beans and sausage. The amount of food on the plate also lets this breakfast down quite substantially as this could have been one of the nicest we have tried. Recommendations for the Owner to achieve Full Scottish Breakfast Greatness: (In order of priority) 1. Increase the portion size of bacon, sausages, beans and mushrooms. 2. Improve the cooking of the fried egg. 3. Improve the quality of the sausage. 4. Give the customer the option of how they would like their eggs cooked. 5. Add haggis to the menu of add on options. 6. Give the customer the option of brown or white bread.
	Breakfast served at times	9 - 12 am Mon - Sun
	Breakfast advertised as	All day breakfast
	Price	£6.25
	Breakfast contents	Fried Egg 1 Sausage 1 Rasher of bacon Black Pudding Tomato slice Tattie scone Beans Mushrooms Toast Lorne Sausage £1 Extra
	Tea/Coffee Included	No Tea/Coffee £1.50
	How cooked	Grilled
	Service Time Queuing	0
	Service Time Waiting for Order	15 mins
	Star Score	3/5
	Points deducted for	No choice of eggs or bread No haggis Cooking quality
	Website	http://www.theseaforth.com/
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