Petrol Service Stations in Dunfermline
Club House
DUNFERMLINE
Fife
KY11 9NA
I donated a pack of mushrooms to the 'Clubhouse' restaurant in Dalgety Bay the other day. Why? Well it seems the credit crunch / economic downturn has taken its toll on the menu. The menu declares mushrooms as part of their breakfast selection but mine arrived resplendent with one solitary mushroom cap. Apparently, the restaurant uses Portobello mushrooms in the kitchen and being a %u2018large%u2019 species, restaurant convention is to serve a single mushroom (cap?). Even so the cap had dimensions commensurate with a 10-pence piece. Same deal some days later, the %u2018full breakfast%u2019 arrived accompanied by HALF a SINGLE MUSHROOM CAP! I was told the breakfast policy had changed to serving BUTTON mushrooms with breakfast, the Portobellos now being reserved to accompany steaks for evening diners. But, breakfast chef running low on supplies reverted to serving Portobellos instead and, %u2018Portobello mushrooms being a %u2018large%u2019 species%u2019, etc, etc opted to serve half the mushroom cap in place of a portion of button mushrooms. I might be wide of the mark, but the same place also claimed to be in short supply of tea and limited toast with breakfast to a single round due to a %u2018shortage of bread%u2019 too, so I might be forgiven for thinking at just under £7:00 per head, their caterer just can%u2019t buy enough produce to satisfy the menu. So I gave them the carton of mushrooms with my compliments. Hopefully I can maybe anticipate something more generous than half a mushroom cap with breakfast if I visit soon. And if I don%u2019t, well I%u2019m comforted by the knowledge that some other diner might not be fractionally disappointed in their portion of mushrooms. I pointed out too that ASDA, TESCO and M&S food were all within a couple of hundred yards of the restaurant, maybe they could shop around for the best price to help solve the scarcity of tea and bread supplies.
ed connro - 11/07/2010 | report this review
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