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Grassroots Cafe ****


OK not what many of you would suppose should go on a site dedicated to travel.

Well I'm not many of people. Grassroots Cafe situated on St Georges Road in the West End (barely - lets face it the place is practically city centre) is an establishment catering to those of you who happen to be either vegetarian or anemic sorry, vegan, being neither I just had a coffee and savoured the aroma of the food being served heaped on plates the size of a small country - say Russia.

Well to be honest with you I was looking forward very much to destroying this place with lots and lots of very nasty words. but the problem is the place gets four stars in my book. It would have got five but the waiter was better looking than me and I'm petty that way.

from what I gathered from the website they also have a good selection of wines too, if you are that way inclined. Personally I prefer my wine to be cheap, cheerless, of uncertain origin and possibly contaminated with Anti-Freeze.

Go and enjoy some food that is farmed in a sustainable, organic and conscientious way.

Also, you may want to have a walk round the corner to Woodlands Road where they have a shop selling not only whole foods (I don't have any idea what this means at all, as far as I can tell food seems to be fairly complete when I buy it from other shops... but I digress), they also sell beauty and cleaning products that are not only natural but also have the benefit of being good for the environment. (Don't ask me if they work, given the chance I would use DDT to get rid of some flies and as for my carbon footprint! - There are countries in the developed world who are better than me.)

Well as always folks please feel free to comment and ask me anything you want and I will feel free to ignore those I can't answer.

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2 Responses to “Grassroots Cafe ****”

Miriam Says: January 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am

I remember going to the natural food store and wondering why carrots were three times as expensive as a regular store...but they did have nice tea and a selection of vegan pastries which always smelled wonderful. And I bought organic broccoli there and I did think it tasted better--but maybe that was me justifying the expenditure.

Really I shopped there sometimes because it was right across the highway from the Glasgow School of Art and therefore almost directly on my way to student housing. Is that the same place? pretty sure it is, I just forgot the name.

Vegetarians have a rough time in britain in the winter except for Indian food, so for veggies it would probably be 4-5 stars just cuz they don't serve sausage or haggis (hee!).

Ed Stevens Says: January 21st, 2007 at 6:20 pm

Ah dear miriam, we do have veggie haggis. it is one of the many punishments that we carnivores inflict upon vegetarians.

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