Tag: food-writing
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The Milkman, Peebles
Is the customer always right? My experience is no-one is. Although one’s van-based partner Sancho claims that they are. Themselves, not the customer. And only 97% of the time. So I did take my customer’s coffee recommendation for the Milkman, Peebles. I parked the trading chariot for free in a meadow-side locale, strolled across a…
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Ullapool and Inverness, briefly. Cult Café, West Coast Deli, The Bakery.
What pleasure it is to be invited for a sporting weekend in the country with associated quality comestibles and copious imbibables. Especially so as the location was gourmet Aunt’s wee Highlan’ Hame. I did beg her to not thus describe it. So I loaded Rocco and headed north on an enviable drive to the moonscape…
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PickyManinaVan is on holiday far far north…
…and will report next Thursday on certain establishments of interest.
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Melo, Bearsden, Glasgow
Achilles may have been the greatest and swiftest of the Greeks but there was the eventually defining matter of his heel. I feel the same about the coffee in Melo. Melo is conveniently located on A81 Milngavie Road. Opposite is a rank of free parking in MacFarlane Rd and nearby is the tasty, filling and…
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Booka Bookshop café, Oswestry
One hesitates to admit to scuttling, but scuttle across the border we did until safely on the Welsh side. Rocco, my cuboid steed, was packed not with stock, but with holiday gear for the amusement of all. Diverse outlying relatives, both geographically and emotionally, were also to be visited. They might even enhance the vacation.…
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PMiaV, Sancho and Rocco are on Holiday…
…and will return on Thursday
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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.…
