I was walking around Glasgow yesterday and my stroll took me into the neighbourhood of Govan. Govan is an area of the 'old school' Glasgow, made famous by it's shipbuilding history and has a very much 'no nonsense' outlook. I popped into an authentic 1930's Italian cafe complete with art deco facade for a coffee. You should have seen the proprietor's face when I asked for 'A large Latte to go please'.....
He looked at me with a look almost resembling contempt and said 'All our coffees have milk...Latte just means milk. What the hell is a latte? You just want milk?'
After I'd stopped laughing at him, we had a good old chinwag about coffee and how the smoking ban has been disastrous for him particularly with the local bingo hall closing too. The coffee was unsurprisingly excellent and at 75p, was 1/4 the price I pay at my local Starbucks. I really should make more effort to eat and drink from small independent places more often.
