Tim Horton’s OK, Canadian chums – look away now. Tim Horton’s is an iconic Canadian hospitality brand. Timbits – bite-sized doughnut things – send people in to some sort of fevered rapture, apparently.Exterior It came as a bit of a surprise when they chose Glasgow to open their first UK outlet, but it seems to …

Falafel to Go Over the next month or so I should really think about ramping up #sausagequest and #falafelquest with a view to reaching verdicts before the end of time. Shop With that in mind, I had a hot tip to follow up in Glasgow, just off Sauchiehall Street, where I’d heard tell of a …

Alyssa’s After my recent scrape with Natural Born Grillers I was a bit apprehensive of wee Glasgow cafes, so didn’t have massively high hopes when I got off the train in Mount Florida in need of a breakfast roll.Exterior I headed to Alyssa’s on Cathcart Road which looked much more promising. A lively wee place …

McDonald’s I’m a dumbass who responds to dares. I pretty much always have been. Probably the greatest silliness this led to was jogging naked down the Malecon in Havana during some fairly blustery conditions. Arrest or being dragged to a watery grave thankfully didn’t result. Exterior More recently I had to endure the fairly dire …

Pane e Vino Let it snow, let is snow, let it snow… The arrival of the airborne white stuff in splendid profusion threw the country into chaos with these entirely predictable ‘freak weather conditions’ which happen every year once again the cause of much gnashing of teeth. Exterior With a meeting in Ayrshire on the …