With the genuinely sad demise of our favourite café in Edinburgh (Café Renroc, so much so that on some level, our choice of accommodation location was dictated in part by proximity to it), we are forced to expand our breakfast horizons once again. I do the research and Duck & Waffle - no marks for guessing what their signature dish is, but the usual other breakfast/brunch options are accounted for. Hazel, George, and I head along and after entering a lobby that resembles the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks for the Instagram generation, we’re whisked through an oddly garish dining room and multiple open plan kitchen stations. Despite the aforementioned variety, we’re all pretty basic and go for the duck and waffle - a half waffle topped with confit duck leg, fried duck egg, and a mustard seed maple syrup. Our waiter gave us a strict set of instructions as to exactly how we should eat it, and fair enough it works. The waffle - much like the Waffle House the other day - is not one of those annoyingly crystalline ones, which makes it the perfect support for a leg of duck where the meat is tender and the skin is crispy and well-marinaded. The egg could be a little more yolky, and I’ll be damned if I could easily distinguish it from a chicken’s, but it adds a certain creaminess that the mustard maple syrup cuts through nicely. A hearty, fulfilling, rich brunch that holds up on its own - the somewhat gaucheness of the rest of the place is unnecessary.