The Wee Scone Shop

After some careful consideration, The Wee Scone Shop comes up tops in my «places to eat in Govan» list.
It’s a wee café full of wee grannies who gather in this outlet to gossip over a cheap brew. It’s clean, the staff are quick to serve you and there’s always some bacon sizzling away on the grill.
The staff are friendly and make a dynamite array of filled rolls. Can’t tell you that I’ve ever noticed wee scones but they do serve up some doughnuts. It offers a bit of variation if you don’t fancy a Greggs, and is a wee bit healthier since their menu choices come with a side salad!

Prior to visiting Govan, my experience with exiting the underground in Glasgow had been pretty reliably something like this:
1) Take stairs up
2) Go through turnstyle
3) Take more stairs up
4) Spot nearby coffeeshop
Needless to say… the exit from the Govan station did –not– follow this pattern. In fact, not only was there no immediately apparent coffeeshop right outside the tube, there wasn’t one on the next street, or even around the corner!
Once my mild anxiety attack passed… I decided to do some more scouting, which led me to the indoor shopping mecca* known as Govan Cross. Inside… I found none other than The Wee Scone Shop. I mean… how could I possibly have passed up a place with «wee» in the name? Really…
I can’t say I was tempted by the heat lamp-​warmed grub, but I did escape with a frothy latte that satisfied my caffeine cravings. For that, I’m grateful.
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* This is a patent lie. By «shopping mecca» I mean «tragic retail food outlet that I would never consider spending any money at.»

Another option for lunch when your stuck in Govan for ideas.
It’s a bakers, coffee shop and take away and based in the Govan Cross Shopping Centre. I’ve fortunately never been when it’s busy but I’ve never been sure where you’re supposed to queue. They recently had the counter done up and they have a counter for the cakes/​cold rolls and a seperate counter for hot foods i.e. pasties/​hot roll choices.
I just go to the hot counter, they have a minimum selection of toasties, soup but normally have an ok variety of hot rolls and pasties.
The cakes always look so delicious, the strawberry tarts are huge, to be honest most of the cake are massive. Me thinks they’ve been putting something in them to grow, just like when you get bizarre and ginormous cucumbers. When you go to Greggs it is your standard production line size but these come with the bumps, lumps and well out of shape. Just the way I like a cake.
The clientele is normally old ladies have their afternoon tea but if you fancy a wee coffee break and cake pop in for a giant squiffy cake.

The organisation and service in here is like a military operation. Despite the queue, we were served very quickly in whatever strange system they use.
The stout, stern woman behind the counter served us with our cakes and tea. The seating area is crammed with flimsy looking tables and chairs. My strawberry danish was a standard affair, and Stu’s carrot cake looked amazing, but he said it was a bit too crumbly. You can never please some, eh? He is a very messy eater so I’m not sure it was the cake’s fault.
Special photo cakes can be made for birthdays, as demonstrated in the window display, but unfortunately, there is nothing really special about the bakery in general.