Tag: Best cafe
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Broch Café, A84, Strathyre
What is so irresistible about the rural, wild enormity of Scotland? Is it the scale, variety and sheer freedom of the landscape? Or is it the pleasant independence, idiosyncrasy and hospitality of the people? Whilst dallying on the A84, travelling west to east and mentally computing coffee options in Crieff or Callander I felt I…
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Rothesay and Port Bannantyne, the Isle of Bute
Gather Deli, Musicker café, Rothesay. Cadillac Kustomz Diner, Caledonia Bistro & Deli, Port Bannantyne. One relishes the chance to go to an Island. But there are islands and Islands. Over drinks a friend recently asked, ’Which are your favourite Scottish islands to visit?’ I instinctively yelled out, ‘Tenerife!’ But what, I reflected, if the original…
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PickyManinaVan is unwell…
…and will return next Thursday.
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The Duke, Kilmarnock
The exterior signage on the Duke reads, ’Breakfast to bed time. Running all day long.’ That, my PMiaV chums is what we are doing all day long in our vans. But pause, consider, what are we really doing, where are we really going? I can now specifically suggest it should be John Finnie St, Kilmarnock.…
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Olivia’s, Crow Road, Broomhill, Glasgow
Olivia’s looked like a classy joint as I sat at the lights. Several refreshment options had possibilities amongst the strip of shops on this reach of the Crow Road, but as I strive to be a classy act myself I thought I would start with Olivia’s. I parked free nearby on Victoria Park Gardens and…
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Greenhouse Café, Loch Leven’s Larder. Kinross.
Whilst wafting along the A911 on a quiet Sunday I was delayed by a small queue of modern, sensible cars turning into Loch Leven’s Larder. My gallant charger and I followed into the packed free car park. We had stumbled across another one of those enormous, high-end farm shop emporiums beloved of active pensioners and…
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Brera Caffé, Partick, Glasgow
Parking my trusted metallic steed Roccy in Partick was not easy in working hours, but you should stable yours in the metered bays on Peel Street and stroll back to Brera. 30 minutes on the ticket will suffice. Brera is a well-worn Scotch/Italian café. The subtly stylish matt grey exterior and big windows don’t boast…
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2 Children, Raeburn Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Planet Earth
Stockbridge would normally be nightmare parking territory for the picky operator of an LWB van but I slid easily into a resident’s bay opposite 2 Children, one of the many, many upmarket-looking coffee outlets in the area and parked untouchably because it was Sunday. One hears a lot about the supposed superiority of certain areas…
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Cadzow Bakehouse, Hamilton
13.23. I was desperate to get to Hamilton for 13.28. Not a sentence you often read nor the premise for a great action movie. But let me set the scene; 73mph on the M74. The PMiaV (our nameless protagonist; handsome, athletic, improbably full head of hair) must have coffee and a cinnamon bun. It’s Sunday,…
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Billington’s of Lenzie
Naturally, I know some picky people. They decided to move from Hyndland to Lenzie; short commute, countryside, nice houses, the Academy… That’s quite picky. Hyndland is not exactly a slum. ‘Lenzie,’ snorted my friend Moira, dreadfully hungover on the sofa, ‘It’s just Cumbernauld.’ She waved a hand limply in a NE direction, indicating a large…
