Cassia

2 Reviews on “Cassia”

• TartanSpoon

  Popped in for a pot of tea and a breakfast roll. The place looks quite nice, clean and a fresh compared to some of the cafes on Leith Walk. The interior is lovely, with tables and chairs and lots of pot plants outside.Unfortunately tea is served in a large mug and the bacon and egg roll was awful. The large roll was stale, the bacon tough and the eggs just looked cheap. So bad I didn’t even take a photo!It looks more promising that it is. tartanspoon.co.uk

  November 5, 2016, 5:33 pm

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• Such Food.

  In some ways, the progress of Cassa is representative of Leith as a whole. It sits plonked at the end of Leith Walk, near where a KFC once stood, but it is an entirely different thing altogether. Some of the old still remains, but the new is fresh and eager to push through, and push they must.The chaps behind the counter are enthusiastic and eager to serve you – going all the way to make the extra effort. It’s lovely to see that these days too, so many places just serve you food, quickly, efficiently, but without such conversation and it’s a lovely thing to stumble across that in day-to-day life.It was a cold misty day when I crossed their door. I was tired, in need of sustenance to battle the remaining dregs of the previous night that were still sloshing around my brain. Having heard Cassia is renowned along the walk for their mince and tatties, thought I’m not such a fan of crumbled cattle myself. I plumped for the bandari, an odd, almost stovie like mix of potatoes, onions and spices served up in a lightly toasted bap.The bap surrounds the dish in a crunchy halo, breaking through releases the steamy goodness inside, and such flavour! My only criticisms were that it could have done with a tad more salt (but that’s just me, I’m like some sort of salty sea monster with food!) and perhaps a bit more onion, though I could just as easily have been landed with a somewhat less onioney batch than the rest of the barrel of bandari.You can’t miss Cassia on these bleak winter days (do they even count as days if the sun doesn’t rise?) It shines a beacon of warmth out across what is admittedly one of the bleaker steps on the walk, and draws you in for friendly chatter and scran.I’m going to close with one of my favourite lines about Leith, heard I believe on a screening of one of Mr. Kevin Bridges’ shows. He says he bumped into an old lady on Leith walk one day and asked her what she thought of the area.She simply shrugged, croaked ‘it’s getting better,’ and then plodded off into the mist.She hit the nail on the head.

  March 1, 2015, 5:26 am

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