This place is a real gem of a local newsagent/cafe/sweet shop/ice cream parlour. If you live local…read moreand haven't been, then sort your life out. I've never tried any of the hot food (basic breakfast fayre is on offer pretty much all day) but the home-made ice cream is seriously good. There's a wee freezer with some more exotic flavoured ices as you walk in, but the star of the show is the soft vanilla... I've tried plenty of Italian ice creams served from this type of shop (it must be a Glasgow thing) but Newlands Café wins hands-down. Just don't forget to get some raspberry sauce on top! Did I mention it was a bargain too? £1.10 for a small scoop in a cone! Lovely.

This is not just cafe: it hasa wonderful old fashioned sweet shop and tabacco counter, with a…read morewonderful owner who always has time to chat and advise. Good prices, too: it competes with Tesco, and has the bonus of being an old local business. The cafe is small: it is mostly the place to get a cup of tea or coffee, although they do bacon rolls and other light snacks. These are avaialble for take away, and good for a snack or breakfast on the run.

A friend recommended this place for brunch and I'm so glad we went. It's been a while since I've…read morebeen into Glasgow due to bad health and this was the perfect place to go! Thanks to it being Sunday, street parking outside was free which is an added bonus. The staff were very helpful and friendly. I asked for my usual Chai but unfortunately they don't have it...yet! But I was advised to try the London Fog. Earl grey tea with honey and foamy milk, mmmm, very tasty! My friend got jealous so ordered one too. For food I had stacked pancakes and bacon. The only way these could have been better is by having streaky bacon rather than British bacon, but still tasty. I love that they hit brought the jug of maple syrup to the table, usually you have to beg borrow and steal at places to get more! Ben got a side of macaroni cheese because, why not. And he enjoyed it thoroughly, just the right amount of creaminess to the cheese. Very reasonably priced, great food, lovely staff. It's such a quaint little place, try it if you haven't already, you won't be disappointed!

I have to update my review based on my most recent visit (last night) and remove a star to bring it…read moredown to 3 stars. Service was still really good, but their pulled pork is now a massive disappointment. Dry, tasteless mush. Luckily I went for the ribs and they were still excellent. Worth noting that BYOB price for a beer has gone up 20p to 70p per beer too.

I had been wanting to visit here for pure ages and it was certainly worth the wait. It was my…read morebirthday and my sista from another mista Angela B. and I do like to have a wee day out for our birthdays as we are a week apart. I thought visiting the Southside for a wee change. It's somewhere I wouldn't normally go but Angela had been before and new some good places to visit including The Glad Café. We opted for a brunch and I had my favourite dish French Toast, bacon and maple syrup. Yum! I had a cheeky mocha and it just complicated my delicious mound of food goodness on my plate. The place was always constantly busy and it was like a tardis and much bigger than I thought. The entrance is just a door with a small shop beside it, once you walk down the corridor it just opens up and it was wonderful. It was bright and it's for all ages. I wouldn't mind seeing a gig here as they always promote local talent. It's a great project and I'm so glad, literally, it's became such a success.

Been wanting to check this place out since I first heard about it & finally, a couple of weeks ago,…read moreI got to go. Thankfully it lived up to my expectations of the place. I was only here in the bar for a drink after work but it is such a lovely and cool place to hang about it. Some might say living in the West End I am spoiled for choice for hip bars/venues but I really don't think there's anywhere WE quite like the Glad Cafe. It reminds me more of Stereo or Mono in that not only is the GC a great place to have a drink but also does really nice food (so I hear) and puts on gigs and other such events. It's what Shawlands/the South Side has been crying out for. If I lived local this would most definitely be my local. Beers on tap the evening I went were Brooklyn Lager, William's Lager and Caesar Augustus, West Munich Red and a Sam Smith's beer. This is a really good selection for a place the size it is. Prices were not too bad either ~ £3.50 for a pint of the William's Bros. lager. They also had some nice bottled beers too, including the Drygate beers. The wine list looked pretty substantial also and again, pretty good prices. I did have an issue with the West Munich Red beer in that it tasted bizarre/off but thankfully the nice girl serving let me choose another beer instead. I like the decor, furniture and layout of the cafe, it feels very boho and being in here on a Winters evening with all the wee tealights lit it was delightfully cosy & just what I needed after a long, tiring week. If you want to come here for food I noticed the kitchen stops serving at 7pm which surprised me as just assumed this was a place were folk could come for an evening meal but obviously it really is more a 'cafe' than just the name suggests. Great place, lovely vibe and providing that little bit something extra for the area ~ I'm a fan.

It's cheap and cheery with a great assortments of flavours. I'm not convinced they have much on…read moreoffer for the lactose intolerant or the vegans, but for us fans of ice cream they are brilliant. Two large scoops of whatever costs just a few £s and for 50p you can have it smothered in Nutella for the win. Boom - there yer dinner. It can get pretty busy too, but I've never had to wait more than 10 minutes from entering to schlurping my quarry. Oh, and remember it's cash only!

This is another shop just beside my flat which I've never been in. Until last night…read more Out for a kinda late evening stroll, we had a yen for ice cream - perfect excuse to try this out. Every time I've passed it previously, it's been mega busy. And last night was no exception. They have quite a fair selection of weird and wonderful ice creams and waffley type things - ferrero rocher, cyrly wurly, daim ice creams for example. I decided on a scoop of curly wurly, strawberry cheesecake and mint choc chip. Not the cheapest ice crem I've ever had - but well worth it. All of them were awesome - not too creamy, not too icey. And tasted perfect! When you go in, it's really dark - but by no means dingy. Once you order, you'll be given a ticket number which is called when your order is ready.

While it is true that the decoration and cleaning are rather... old fashioned, if you arrive at the…read morecafe in the early evening, you can catch the early evening news on an old fashioned, pre-plasma screen television. This adds to the dated feel, which is one of its main charms. That, and the hot muffin , ice cream combination, which extends the ice cream season into the winter. There is something nostalgic about this cafe, which is why I always order Bovril to drink and vanilla ice cream, despite the range of other drinks and flavours. The menu isn't extensive, and this is more like a sweet shop with cafe attached at times: it never gets busy, and isn't that great to sit in with more than three other people.

One of, if not *the* finest ice cream in Glasgow!…read more There's no doubt about this. The Queens Cafe is a nice wee cafe too, with little red booths and an art deco set up that automatically makes you think of the 50s when Glasgow was littered with little places like this. The cafe is all but the same as it was when my dad was a young man, and the food, drinks and ice cream are all much the same as well. A few years ago the Independent did a list of the top 50 ice cream parlours in Glasgow and there was the Queens Cafe, pride of place in the list. Grab yourself an ice cream and take a nice wander in the Queens Park. A summers day gets little better than that.

Brilliant night out! I've never eaten at Babu Bombay Street Kitchen and I've never tried Curry…read moreGoat before so I spent the week before this event more excited about the food than is really decent. We went to the 6.30pm sitting on the Saturday night so I was already aware of the good reviews from the Friday night, and it totally lived up to my expectations. Two long tables in the function room of the Glad Cafe, with reggae on the stereo and Bollywood on the big screen. Sitting at one big table encouraged people to chat and the whole place was chilled out and fun from the start. The rum punch didn't have quite the kick I was hoping for but it was yummy (and I was with a friend who was off the booze for January so I got hers as well!). The Sev Puri starter was awesome - lovely and spicy yet fresh as anything. When it came to the main courses, I really struggled to choose between them - I was in a party of three and we ordered everything between us and shared. The Curry Goat was fantastic, but in my opinion it was just pipped to the post by the Vanu Pau, the spicy potato burger served with chilli and coriander chutney and tamarind sauce in a Morton's roll. I'm not sure if that's because my Scottish tastebuds can't see past a dish which is essentially a potato fritter in a bread roll, but it was absolutely amazing. If I worked in the city centre, I'd be in Babu Bombay Street Kitchen every day having one of those. The other two dishes were both perfectly lovely and I'd happily eat them again, but the Curry Goat and the Vanu Pau were my two winners from the night. The ginger cake and chai combo to finish were also fantastic - seriously, there wasn't a bad dish served all night. It was a heck of a lot of food, but it was so yummy that I hoovered it all up and if I hadn't been so full I'd have happily have had more. All the staff present were friendly and relaxed and the evening was great fun. For £20 including the rum punch, I thought it was excellent value for money. The girl I spoke to from the Glad Cafe said this was the first event like this they'd done and they had been waiting to see how it went, but already by the Saturday night they were pretty sure it was a success and they'd be looking to do more. That gets a big thumbs up from me - I can't wait for more nights like this.

What a feast! I'm still full up now an hour after the amazing dessert…read more Set in the back room of glad cafe, this was a hipstastic homage to two great street food vendors in Glasgow, Babu Indian Kitchen and Fire in Babylon. One great starter followed by 2 out of 4 main choice selections (I had an excellent butter chicken that wasn't sickly buttery, I'm looking at you Mother India's Café, and goat curry) and then a sublime ginger cake with an excellent Indian tea all for £20 was grey value. That included a cool rum punch served in an old bottle too. Glad café is a perfect location for such an event and I hope some other vendors will come back and carry on the battles!

Wild Flours made the cake for our wedding and they did an incredible job. We asked for a…read morecustom-made, two-tiered espresso and blackberry cake. It looked beautiful and tasted even better! So many people at our reception made a point of commenting on how delicious it was. We'd tried a lot of their cakes before in cafes around Glasgow and loved them. Since we had quite a few gluten-free people at our wedding, they seemed like the perfect choice. They were a delight to work with: they listened carefully to what we wanted, checked in with us frequently to make sure we were happy, and made the process of delivery and setting up super-easy. Their service was always friendly and helpful. I honestly can't recommend Wild Flours highly enough. If you're looking for a great bakery in Glasgow, whether or not you're gluten-free, you really should give them a try.

Ive had the pleasure of tasting the lovely goodies on offer from wild flours bakery at the glad…read morecafe in shawlands. It is so nice to see a local company offer gluten free goodies and i would love to see them open up their own little coffee shop as there is nothing else like this in Glasgow. Keep up the good work guys!

What a lovely new coffee shop! There must be something in the water on the South Side with all…read morethese great new places opening. Gizzi opened just along from the very recently closed Coffee Station today (Monday 2 February 2015) so I popped in for a very quick visit. It's a narrow space and yet they have quite a bit of seating. At first I thought this was just a coffee/cake place, but somehow they're also doing pasta and pizza. Pasta such as lasagne, penne arrabiata and macaroni for around £5 eat in. The stone baked pizza options are also pretty simple: margherita, inferno, Italian sausage and misto and again, around the £5-£6 mark. As I was just making a brief visit I grabbed a couple of pieces of raspberry jamaretti (yes, that's amaretti biscuit with jam in it) which I'm going to eat for dessert tonight. The guy serving me was super lovely and welcoming, and seemed busting with happiness about their first day. I can't wait to pay it another visit.

Gizzi Espresso Bar, formerly Caffé Armando. Family-run,…read morefamily-feel cafe with incredible pizza! When I first moved to Shawlands over ten years ago, I always walked past this place as it looked like a basic greasy spoon. About a year ago I finally went in as I fancied a hangover roll with something better than slice (square sausage to you Weegies) on it. I was shocked at how good the Salsiccia and roasted peppers on focaccia was. Then they bloody closed down! Thankfully this was just for a long overdue re-fit, and they were back open in a few weeks. What a difference! Having now tried the pizza, I can say the decor now lives up to the grub! Across a half dozen visits plus numerous takeouts, I will say that the standard is very good for the grilled sandwiches, salads, soups and pasta. The coffee is Italian Aroma supplied, reasonably priced and above the (admittedly rather poor) general standard for Glasgow. Service is always warm and friendly, a definite benefit of a family with a long experience in the trade. My usual gripe as for pretty much everywhere in Scotland, tables could be cleared-wiped-reset a bit faster, but this is from a used-to-be-in-the-trade viewpoint, and have never seen a customer inconvenienced by it. Now the pizza. Let me qualify this; I have eaten several kilos of pizza from Bella Napoli over the years, and even ate from the Crolla's previous premises at Italmania in the city centre (showing my age?). Domenico Crolla has justifiably won loads of international awards as a pizzaolo, and will probably continue to do so. Well, the pizza at Gizzi is hand made from scratch too, by seasoned Italian hands, and the results are just as good. Super thin, with random pockets of crisply bubbled dough and the odd deliciously chewy bit, everything you could want proper pizza to be! Makes your face and your belly smile, and causes strange noises of longing to elicit from those sharing a table with you. Add to this the happier, friendlier atmosphere in Gizzi, and I know where I would rather spend my cash. Other reviews have already mentioned that Bakery47 supply the pastries, so no need to go into detail their, suffice to say they are uniformly excellent. Barring some catastrophe, they have a customer for life.

Passed some time today in this wee coffe shop whilst waiting for my car to hopefully pass its MOT…read more I have passed here many a time on the bus and was pleasantly surprised when I arrived. The shop is really quite big with a good amount of tables and a few comfy couches. The cakes ... well they look AMAZING!! All very clearly labelled with what ingrediants are in them however sadly not a cake available for my gluten free tum. They dont have a big food menu. Soup, paninis and jacket potatoes but thats not 2hat they are about. Here its all about the cake!! I was able to have the pistachio macaroons though which were so lovely. Will be getting some more of these! With great opening hours - till 10pm. This is a great addition to Vicky Road and I am only sad that I didnt visit sooner!

For the last couple of weeks, I've been walking by this coffee shop at warp speed on my way to and…read morefrom work ever since it opened just after New Year. I've often slowed down long enough to peer longingly in the window, drawn in by the impressive shop front, admiring the comfy warm interior and awesome cakes. This shop boasts a fine selection of tasty, sweet treats. They don't appear to serve anything savoury, so this would be perfect for anyone like me with a sweeter than sweet tooth. When I sauntered up to the counter, I was greeted by a lovely server behind the counter who was happy to engage in a wee bit of banter. Unfortunately, they didn't have any non-dairy alternatives to milk, so I couldn't have a hot chocolate, but as they had a nice selection of tea I wasn't too bothered. Confronted with the choice of so many beautifully presented home made desserts, I was stumped. After ogling the plethora of dainty delectables behind the glass for some time, I finally ordered me a nice Caramel Apple Pie and a strawberry / mango tea and settled to chill out with my book for a wee while. Total price? The handy dandy price of £3! Fantastic! According to the shop window, this lovely new establishment also provides cakes to order, including wedding cakes. They're definitely worth a wee look in if you're ever in the area. Support the purveyors of perfect pastries! :P