Last Saturday was a special day for me. We started with breakfast at Browns on George Square mainly because they had a special offer and we had never been before.
We then set off for a visit to the Weavers Cottage at the village of Kilbarchan. The Weavers Cottage is a National Trust for Scotland building which demonstrates the weaving cottage industry before the industrial revolution. It makes for a very interesting visit but unfortunately lacks the obligatory tearoom.
We decided to return to Glasgow for our refreshments and found ourselves on Byres Road which is now home to 3 ice cream establishments. The University Café. the new Nardini's and an even more recent Crolla's.
We have been to both the University Café and Nardini's before AND we could not get into Nardini's because it was packed so we decided to try out Crolla's.
Crolla's is a well-known ice cream manufacturer in Glasgow. They have a factory in Polmadie and supply many cafés and restaurants and although they have had ice cream parlours in the past, more recently they had concentrated more on the manufacturing and supply. They opened the Byres Road establishment in 2012.
The weather was a bit mixed on Saturday but the afternoon was lovely and warm and so as a result there was a steady trade of take away orders from a mainly young (studenty) clientelle.
We were still full up from breakfast and Martin decided to stick with a vanilla ice but as it was a special day for me I decided to have one of their speciality Cold Stone Creations. I was not sure what I was going to get and did not watch it being created as I was too busy trying to protect my seat.
My Scotland Special contained Vanilla Ice, Tablet Ice Cream and Tunnocks Teacake all smashed together and then drizzled with raspberry sauce. Delicious.
Martin enjoyed his Vanilla Ice as well.
We then waddled up Byres Road before heading off to Fanny Trollope's for our dinner date.
All in all a lovely foodie day but next time I think we will drop breakfast so we can enjoy more ice cream!
