Taste of Glasgow

If you remember my post about 3 steps to heaven on Byres Road you will know that I am a massive fan of ice cream so imagine my delight when I noticed a new ice cream parlour in my neck of the woods. With a wide range of ice cream flavours from the usual to [...]

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Ice-cream is one of my guilty pleasures. All too often I sit down in front of the TV with a tub of Ben & Jerry’s and before long it is pretty much nearly all gone. So you can imagine my thoughts when my girlfriend introduced me to 3 Steps to Heaven. 3 Steps to Heaven [...]

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The Bay Tree Cafe has been one of my favourite eating spots ever since I moved to Glasgow.  This Arabian/Mediterranean café used to only serve vegan food, but it has since transformed into a meat-serving-but-still-veggie-friendly cafe. Open from 9:00-22:00 (21:00 on Sundays), the Bay Tree Cafe offers a range of hot breakfast dishes, sandwiches and [...]

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I must confess that I heart Heart Buchanan. This love affair was made possible by the boyfriend who introduced me to one of the poshest takeaways in Glasgow. He would boast about it from his BBC days along Queen Margaret Drive, before the Beeb moved down to its new digs in Pacific Quay. Conveniently sandwiched [...]

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Situated in the vibrant Finnieston area of Glasgow, Piece has been a bit of a regular haunt for me for a while now. With the area containing about half a dozen sandwich shops catering for the local office crowd you really need to be doing something different from the competition and this is what Piece [...]

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Brewhaha is a fresh and funky brand of tea, pioneered by Joanne MacLeod.  She came up with the idea of branding a bright, lively tea range, from her home in Glasgow’s West End.  She has achieved a celebrity status with her tea range (Jude Law and Prince William to name but a few) and she [...]

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