Tag: Glasgow
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Patricia’s X SLB, Govanhill, Glasgow
God forbid you should have to park your engine of economic generation for any length of time in Govanhill. Nae spaces here pal. But, like many decisions in contemporary society, the reluctant but sensible choice seems to be Lidl. With their 90 minutes free car park. Around the corner in Victoria Street coffee beckons at…
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Wild Bean Café – Harthill, and everywhere
‘I suppose,’ said Sancho, ‘You’re in some café, stuffing yourself…’ Au contraire. Not Proven. How on earth is she so prescient? I shouldn’t have taken this call. ‘…when you should be working.’ The horrid truth was I had stopped in a ‘café’ and I was ‘working’. Unfortunately, when we gentlefolk light hauliers are toiling away,…
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The Good Coffee Cartel – Paisley Road West, Glasgow.
Paisley Road West, between the Opry and Bellahouston Park via shisha lounges, the Subway station and a Greek Thompson terrace could never bore a lover of humanity such as I. Watch out for broken glass, bin bags and dog shit though. This bit of PRW also includes two of my favourite things in Glasgow’s van-cessible…
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Grain and Grind – Giffnock, Glasgow.
There are plenty of comestible choices and free 30/60 minute parking on Fenwick road for the PMiaV here. In a pleasing Italian burst of adjacent food outlets is a deli/restaurant, gelateria and Grain and Grind. The first two are old-school, as the recently-left school say. Grain and Grind is not. I’m returning as a year…
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The Grind House – Pollokshields, Glasgow.
It’s a local place, a proper café. I stopped the van right outside, enjoying the liberties locals take with parking rules. Service is quick, the savoury food is basically Italian: light meals and good. The coffee is average. Cakes unimaginative. Nothing is expensive. It’s friendly, a high open space in a double frontage corner. Probably…
