Tea with chocolate ice-cream pud

Location: Tapa, Leith, Edinburgh
www.tapaedinburgh.co.uk/
Date: 25 June 2010
Details: Tea with 'sticky toffee bomb' pudding

Notes: Dinner out with a rediscovered cousin-something-removed in Edinburgh! Jen had heard good reports about this tapas place (called just 'tapa'; translation: 'cover' - how boring) so we drove out to Leith to give it a try.

The World Cup is inescapable at the moment and particularly so in a Spanish restaurant when Spain are playing, d'oh! Still, it livened up the atmosphere and luckily they won so the crowd of boozy Spaniards was in good spirits.

We had a table-ful of tapas dishes, and didn't really need a pudding but in the name of research for this blog, we managed to share this pud, a 'bomb'. It was similar to those served by dodgy Indian and Chinese restaurants - you know, the ones which hand you a shiny card menu with photos of puddings - usually including one which looks like Pingu. So, it probably just came out of the freezer and onto a plate but it was a fine ending to our meal.

I'll be back in Edinburgh at the end of August so looking forward to exploring more cuppa+cake venues!