Mannerstons Café had only been open about two months when we popped in on our way to Hopetoun House. Perhaps because of that it looked a bit new and uninspiring from the outside .. but inside it was buzzing. It has a shop with all the usual ‘country store’ stuff, eggs, jam, vegetables, wine and beer. They also do their own ice cream. Already it has a achieved a 4.5 overall score from TripAdvisor. 
Cream tea
The café area is large and it has an outside sitting area for when the weather is suitable. We ordered a cream tea for two but we could have had any amount of other things. If they have a selection of different teas we certainly were not offered any. However, as it happens the tea we got was good.
The scones were homebaked and very good. Sort of crunchy on the outside and soft and light in the middle and with lots of jam and cream to go with them. There may be one or two minor teething problems (no website to speak of) but if Mannerstons continues in this vain it will be very popular.
Family silver
Not so popular is this ideologically driven government that only 37% voted for imposing massive cuts on the poor and selling off the family silver (Royal Mail, RBS) to their buddies in the City .. because they can! Who actually voted for this?
EH49 7LY tel: 01506 834949 Mannerstons
Visited today after a walk along the Forth from Blackness followed by viewing the snowdrops at the Binns.
Cheese scones very good and excellent table service with very pleasant and helpful staff. The cafe was very busy for an early March afternoon but this did not slow down the service. Looks as if Mannerstons is living up to its early promise as reported in your original post. Got home mid afternoon just in time to meet the postie – another confirmation that private enterprise should never be trusted with public provision!!
Glad to hear that Mannerstons is maintaining standards. Could not agree more regarding the PO, especially when it was flogged off at a knock down price!!
This is a nice place and very busy, but they need to think things through a bit and get themselves better organised, they were a bit all over the place, hence service very slow. Good scones though.