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Square or Lorne sausage is Glasgow's breakfast: a flat, peppery beef sausage sliced from a block and fried, then folded into a floury morning roll. The roll-and-square is the city's daily ritual.
The Lorne or square sausage, a flat slab of seasoned beef sliced from a loaf-shaped block, is a Scottish breakfast staple said to be named after the music-hall comedian Tommy Lorne. Fried and folded into a floury morning roll, the roll-and-square is Glasgow's everyday breakfast, sold in cafes and vans across the city, including the century-old University Cafe on Byres Road.
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Cafe Gandolfi has anchored Glasgow's Merchant City since 1979, a warm room of hand-carved oak serving Scottish classics like Cullen skink and smoked venison.
OrderA bowl of Cullen skink followed by the smoked venison with gooseberry.
TipThe upstairs Bar Gandolfi is a quieter spot for a cocktail before or after your table downstairs.
University Cafe has fed Byres Road since 1918, a fourth-generation family cafe in Glasgow serving cheap fry-ups, fish and chips and its own ice cream.
OrderFish and chips, pie and beans, ice cream
TipIt is a proper old-school Italian-Scots cafe; save room for the double-cream ice cream at the end.
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