Today was another innovating day in my Glasgow student life: I had class, four very long hours to be precise, struggled with the Scottish accent but survived once again. After the lectures I met up with my German friend Luise, who's exchange student as well. Luise and I have a special love for drinking coffee. We complain being poor on an hourly basis, but find ourselves in cool cafe's again and again, spending the money we could also spend on for example, a weeks worth of sandwiches. But a coffee lover's gotta do what a coffee lover does, and that is drinking coffee.
I have decided to write a series of posts about my hunt on cool places here in Scotland. From restaurants, to coffee places or simply just hang-outs. First up is a place in the Merchant City of Glasgow called Spitfire Espresso and which is a little gem. The café is filled with light because of its tall windows and has a vintage, airy touch to it. It gives you a bit of a 50's feeling, with the cute coffee cups, Elvis Presley tunes playing from the retro speakers and pin-up paintwork on the wall. On the counter is a variety of mouth-watering pastries and cakes on display, all looking equally delicious, which made it very hard to make a decision. Eventually Luise ordered a cappuccino and a warm croissant, I took an americano and the most amazing looking rocky road. The rocky road was fabulous, I think I can best describe it as edible heaven. Or an angel peeing on your tongue, something like that. The coffee was made with a beautiful dark red La Marzocco FB70 machine: a real eyecatcher producing lovely coffee.
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| source: yelp.com |
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| source: yelp.com |
Spitfire offers free Wi-Fi and a number of power outlets, which makes it a nice place to get some (home)work done. The staff is very friendly, welcoming and relaxed. One bearded barista even helped Luise with some of her vocabulary revision.
The place has an all day eggs menu, Meaning: we will certainly return some time for a good hangover-brunch.
See you later! Ayeee
