baguettes, wraps and salads are just as enjoyable back at your desk. As with the extensive vegetarian options and the homemade juice of the day, freshness comes as standard.
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THE MANNA HOUSE 22–24 Easter Road, 652 2349 There’s some amazing food on offer at this special little bakery/café, with sweet and savoury goodies including various handy lunch options en croute, in pies and on bread – plus, it’s all created without the aid of additives, shelf life improvers or flavour enhancers.
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flavoursome, and along with a classic meatloaf and frittata it certainly makes for more interesting takeaway than your standard panini.
HULA JUICE BAR AND GALLERY t h y H e a l O P T I O N
103-105 West Bow, 220 1121, www.hulagood.co.uk Perfect for a midday vitamin boost, Hula offers a multitude of juices or smoothies. The ‘Pink Lady’ is a particularly refreshing combination of apple, ginger, lemon and lime, and things remain healthy in the savoury department, with filled wraps and bagels also available.
RELISH
36 Commercial Street, 476 1920 Located in a gorgeous, high-ceilinged store just off the Shore, this welcoming little deli serves quality dry goods, and is also a multi-purpose sit-in or takeaway café. Offering bread, cakes, soup and sandwiches, it often shares menu items with its nearby sister café Rocksalt.
NILE VALLEY 6 Chapel Street, 667 8200 This is the best place for falafel-stuffed wraps, with all the usual salads plus various additions such as smoky grilled aubergine and authentically Sudanese ‘Ful’ fava beans. Soups are also available, and if you don’t want to take away there’s plenty of room to sit downstairs.
OLD TOWN & UNIVERSITY CAFÉ ESPRESSO
Value FOR MONEY 15 Bank Street, EH1 2LN, 220 4400 It’s hard not to waste your lunch break choosing from the long list of sandwich fillings at this unassuming gem of a café. Maybe just take the advice of regulars and go for the ‘number 9’ with spicy chicken, jalapenos, Manchego and special home-made sauce, then leave feeling stuffed.
CAFÉ MARINA 61 Cockburn Street, 662 7447, www.cafemarina.co.uk With legendary deli Valvona and Crolla ancestry, the eponymous hostess of this small café knows good Italian food. Daily pasta specials are hearty and
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Peter’s Yard
OINK 34 Victoria Street, 220 0089 It’s reassuring to see that a fast food joint can be just as simple as a whole roast hog in a window, gradually falling apart as chunks of meat are sandwiched into buns with choices of apple sauce and stuffing.
PETER’S YARD
SuperSOUP 27 Simpson Loan (Quarter Mile), 228 5876, www.petersyard.com Classy Swedish café Peter’s Yard lives by the ethos that the first ingredient one needs when making a good sandwich is passion. Swiftly followed by a piece of really good bread – which is handmade on site using traditional methods. Recently opened takeaway shop Savour-to-go behind the original café serves soups, sandwiches, coffees and homemade ice- cream at good prices.
Blessed are the breadmakers It’s hard to make a good sandwich without good bread, which thankfully is an increasingly common taste around Glasgow and Edinburgh
The appearance of more small artisan bakeries points to an increasing awareness of and demand for proper bread, both from the public and the operations serving them. Around the sandwich shops of the capital Au Gourmand, the Gorgie-based but France-inspired wholesale bakery, is bought in by many discerning operations including Bread & Olives (see page 32), Broughton Delicatessen (see page 30) and The Edinburgh Larder (15 Blackfriars St). Also seen is bread from the newer Patisserie Dujardin, based in Linlithgow, while neighbourhood bakeries such as The Manna House (this page) are selling wholesale as well as direct to the public from their own outlet. Through in Glasgow, McGhee’s Family Bakers,
based in the city since 1935, are the producers of the city’s famous crispy roll – a ubiquitous airy bap with a well-fired top. However a number of artisan bakers are making something a bit more special for sandwiches. Biggest among them is Tapa in Dennistoun (see page 30), supplying its huge range of organic breads (pictured, above) and cakes to establishments including Cherry and Heather Fine Foods (see page 30), The 78 (4 Kelvinhaugh St), Cranachan (Unit 51, Princes Sq) Café Alba (19 Main St, Milngavie), and Artisan Roast (17 Gibson Street), as well as its own two cafés. The Bavarian Bakehouse in Kirkintilloch is garnering a reputation for its speciality German and continental rye breads, with customers ranging from the upmarket Restaurant at Blythswood Square (11 Blythswood Square) to newcomer Eati Boutiquie (231 Berkeley Street, Finnieston). One-man-show Andrew Wilson of Different Breid specialises in organic sourdough bread, which he makes in Heart Buchanan’s kitchen, supplying their café (380 Byres Rd) and the Ubiquitous Chip (12 Ashton Lane) and Stravaigin restauraunts (28 Gibson St & 8 Ruthven Lane), as well as local cheesemonger Iain Mellis (various locations in Glasgow and Edinburgh, mellischeese.co.uk)
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