Monday 27 October 2008
FIRST BLOG. FIRST TEAHOUSE.
The RSAMD, in all of their wisdom, have asked my course group to wander around town and visit two cafes and observe them. here are my 'findings', of sorts:
I'm going to admit it: I'm not a fan of hot drinks. They're not refreshing, they have a tendency to be creamy and they're just plain wrong. So, the task I had been given had troubled me on a deep, political level (yeah, "political", I said it). Not really though.
After a lot of deliberation about where to go etc., and a seemingly never-ending quest for the inscrutable roll and bacon, my beloved group settled on Morton's on Byres Road. Very loud and incredibly cramped, we ended up sitting at the rather uncomfy window bars. Morton's was expensive and impersonal - a typical archetype for west end coffee shops. I think what I liked least about this place is that it was hard to hold a conversation in such overcrowded and noisy quarters, but that may have just been down to the fact we weren't all huddled round a table.
So, we left fairly quickly, and headed towards a place Madeleine referred to as, "one of the best-kept secrets in Glasgow". I had heard good things previously about our next destination and I definitely had high expectations.
Tchai-Ovna is a very small and 'hippie-ish' tea house tucked away in the corner of Otago Lane. The mismatched furniture and gas heater certainly made us feel at home as we ate a plate of biscuits and drank freshly-pressed apple juice (none of us were in the mood for tea, sadly). This place made us feel a lot more relaxed (and our conversation more candid, much to my amusement) than Morton's, and I felt this was a suitable contrast for the morning. Furthermore, all food served is suitable for vegans, and as a dedicated veggie connisseur, I was wishing I had money for food.
All in all, a great success.
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