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Glasgow Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
7 brunch spots with outdoor seating in Glasgow
From West End bakeries to new city centre openings, here are seven restaurants and cafes where you can sip iced coffees and enjoy eggs benedicts under the sun. Zique's Hinba 66 Hyndland Street With coffee roasted on the Hebridean Isle of Seil and a menu of brunch dishes including tomatoes on toast with red pesto and pickled peppers, or freshly baked croissants with Netherend Farm butter and jam, Zique's Hinba's is the perfect place to spend a lazy Saturday morning. Singl-End 15 John Street or 263 Renfrew Street Serving at locations in Merchant City and Garnethill, Singl-end are long-established favourites of Glasgow's brunch scene. Whether you choose a pastry from the heavily-loaded baking display, or keep things savoury with skillet-baked eggs and chilli fennel sausage, a trip to these busy brunch spots is guaranteed to set you up for the day ahead. The city centre outdoor seating area, in particular, turns into a real sun trap when the warm weather hits. Sunny Acre 745 Pollokshaws Road In the Scotland-focused episode of the hit Netflix show, Somebody Feed Phil, actress Kelly Macdonald split a huge stack of cakes and bakes with host Phil Rosenthal at this Southside cafe. Anyone who has visited for themselves will understand why his enthusiasm began building with each bite. It's a popular place, which means securing a seat can be a difficult task, but slices of their homemade quiches and frittatas taste even better under the sun in the newly introduced outdoor seating area. The Wilson Street Pantry 6 Wilson Street If picture-perfect eggs are your favourite way to start the day, look no further than The Wilson Street Pantry in the city centre. Order them poached, fried, or scrambled on sourdough toast with optional extras of cold smoked salmon, feta cheese or link sausage. The team's specials are always worth a look too, with past creations pairing Corrie Mains eggs with chive, coriander, crab and smashed avocado or Thai basil cream cheese and crispy bacon bits. Partick Duck Club 27 Hyndland Street Just down the road from Zique's Hinba, the Partick Duck Club offers customers the chance to dine in quirky outdoor 'duck huts'. These booth-like benches look out towards Masnfield Park, making them a great choice for people watching while you tuck into a breakfast bun with homemade haggis, scrambled egg or beef dripping hash brown. The brunch menu is served all day, which means later on you can swap the coffee for a spicy Bloody Mary or fruity mimosa, if you fancy it. Cottonrake Cafe 717 Great Western Road There are plenty of fantastic brunch spots dotted along Great Western Road in Glasgow's West End, but the attention to detail and winning flavour combinations at Cottonrake earn them a place on this week's list. Think coconut and chia seed overnight oats with cherry compote and sweet nut dukkah, toasted rye topped with prosciutto, charred spring onion whipped cheese, hazelnut pesto and grilled nectarines, or grilled sourdough sandwiches with gruyere, cheddar & dijon mustard. The team has recently started opening in the evenings too, with a brand new dinner menu. Scran and Roadie 180 Saltmarket Previously located on London Road in the city's East End, Scran was known for regularly topping lists of Glasgow's best brunch spots. Although the team moved to a new unit last month, adding a selection of freshly made pizzas to their offering, there's no need for OG fans to worry. At their larger home just off Glasgow Green, you'll still find the team's best-selling brunch dishes from poached eggs with Stornoway black pudding to chicken salt hash browns topped with parmesan and truffle mayonnaise available from opening until 3 pm. As for the London Road spot? It's been taken over by the team behind Ho Lee Fook.
The Herald Scotland
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Seven brunch spots with outdoor seating in Glasgow
From West End bakeries to new city centre openings, here are seven restaurants and cafes where you can sip iced coffees and enjoy eggs benedicts under the sun. Zique's Hinba 66 Hyndland Street With coffee roasted on the Hebridean Isle of Seil and a menu of brunch dishes including tomatoes on toast with red pesto and pickled peppers, or freshly baked croissants with Netherend Farm butter and jam, Zique's Hinba's is the perfect place to spend a lazy Saturday morning. If you're more tempted by a lie-in followed by small plates and cocktails in the evening, you can read our review of their dinner menu from last month here: Glasgow restaurant institution has new owners - how is the food? Singl-End 15 John Street or 263 Renfrew Street Serving at locations in Merchant City and Garnethill, Singl-end are long-established favourites of Glasgow's brunch scene. Whether you choose a pastry from the heavily-loaded baking display, or keep things savoury with skillet-baked eggs and chilli fennel sausage, a trip to these busy brunch spots is guaranteed to set you up for the day ahead. The city centre outdoor seating area, in particular, turns into a real sun trap when the warm weather hits. Sunny Acre 745 Pollokshaws Road In the Scotland-focused episode of the hit Netflix show, Somebody Feed Phil, actress Kelly Macdonald split a huge stack of cakes and bakes with host Phil Rosenthal at this Southside cafe. Anyone who has visited for themselves will understand why his enthusiasm began building with each bite. It's a popular place, which means securing a seat can be a difficult task, but slices of their homemade quiches and frittatas taste even better under the sun in the newly introduced outdoor seating area. The Wilson Street Pantry 6 Wilson Street If picture-perfect eggs are your favourite way to start the day, look no further than The Wilson Street Pantry in the city centre. Order them poached, fried, or scrambled on sourdough toast with optional extras of cold smoked salmon, feta cheese or link sausage. The team's specials are always worth a look too, with past creations pairing Corrie Mains eggs with chive, coriander, crab and smashed avocado or Thai basil cream cheese and crispy bacon bits. Partick Duck Club 27 Hyndland Street Just down the road from Zique's Hinba, the Partick Duck Club offers customers the chance to dine in quirky outdoor 'duck huts'. These booth-like benches look out towards Masnfield Park, making them a great choice for people watching while you tuck into a breakfast bun with homemade haggis, scrambled egg or beef dripping hash brown. The brunch menu is served all day, which means later on you can swap the coffee for a spicy Bloody Mary or fruity mimosa, if you fancy it. Cottonrake Cafe 717 Great Western Road There are plenty of fantastic brunch spots dotted along Great Western Road in Glasgow's West End, but the attention to detail and winning flavour combinations at Cottonrake earn them a place on this week's list. Think coconut and chia seed overnight oats with cherry compote and sweet nut dukkah, toasted rye topped with prosciutto, charred spring onion whipped cheese, hazelnut pesto and grilled nectarines, or grilled sourdough sandwiches with gruyere, cheddar & dijon mustard. The team has recently started opening in the evenings too, with a brand new dinner menu. Scran and Roadie 180 Saltmarket Previously located on London Road in the city's East End, Scran was known for regularly topping lists of Glasgow's best brunch spots. Although the team moved to a new unit last month, adding a selection of freshly made pizzas to their offering, there's no need for OG fans to worry. At their larger home just off Glasgow Green, you'll still find the team's best-selling brunch dishes from poached eggs with Stornoway black pudding to chicken salt hash browns topped with parmesan and truffle mayonnaise available from opening until 3 pm. As for the London Road spot? It's been taken over by the team behind Ho Lee Fook. More on that here: Barras street food sensation Ho Lee Fook to take over popular city cafe.
Elle
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
If You Loved Matthew Goode And Kelly Macdonald From 'Dept. Q', Here's Where Else You Can Watch The Cast On TV Now
Dept. Q, the TV adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling novel has already amassed a cult following, and it's no wonder – since its premiere on May 29, it has consistently held a spot in Netflix's top three TV shows. With the potential of a premiere of season two still a long while away, you might have found yourself missing the performances from lead actors Matthew Goode, Kelly Macdonald, Chloe Pirrie and more as well as the strong supporting cast. From psychological thrillers to crime dramas, many of these actors have appeared in other standout crime thrillers on both the big and small screen. Here, we break down some of the best films and series they've starred in—perfect for fans of Dept. Q, dark mysteries, and the cast members themselves... Ordeal by Innocence follows a man who returns to clear his name after being accused of a murder that he did not commit. The ordeal sees his wealthy adoptive family being thrown into the chaos as buried secrets begin to surface. Matthew Goode stars as Philip Durrant, a paralysed former pilot whose sharp tongue and substance abuse masks his inner turmoil. When a whistleblower leaks highly confidential information that uncovers an illegal NSA operation to sway support for the Iraq War, she puts her life and freedom in jeopardy. Matthew Goode plays Peter Beaumont, a journalist with strong morals who helps break the explosive story. Stoker sees a teenage girl become more and more disturbed after the sudden arrival of her mysterious uncle, shortly after the death of her father. As hidden family secrets begin to surface, so does the threat of danger. Matthew Goode stars as Uncle Charlie, a mysterious and unsettling figure with a dangerous agenda. A grieving mother publicly accuses a man of murdering her child years earlier, which brings about a tense legal battle that prompts questions of morality, justice, revenge, and identity. Kelly Macdonald plays Anna Dean, the distraught mother at the heart of the trial. Based on a true story, a group of ageing criminals plan and execute one of the largest heists in British history by breaking into a high-security vault over a holiday weekend. Matthew Goode plays the Guv'nor, the evasive and calculated mastermind behind the operation When a hunter finds drug money in the American desert, he unintentionally sets off a deadly chain of events involving a ruthless killer and a worn out sheriff who must confront a changing world. Kelly Macdonald plays Carla Jean Moss, the innocent and tragic wife of the fugitive, caught in the violent aftermath of his choices. A discreet police unit must investigate corruption within their own law enforcement, which causes deep and dangerous conspiracies to surface as trust breaks down within the ranks. In season six, Kelly Macdonald plays DCI Joanne Davidson, a senior officer whose loyalties and secrets raise serious suspicion about her character. Jack Ryan follows a CIA analyst who suddenly finds himself thrust into dangerous field assignments, uncovering global conspiracies and threats. Alexej Manvelov plays Alexei Petrov, a Russian operative who is caught up in the complex web of international espionage. When a CCTV operator stumbles across footage of a man from her past, she embarks on a journey of revenge and redemption. Kate Dickie plays Jackie Morrison, the protagonist confronting her past.
The Guardian
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘I'm less apologetic now': Kelly Macdonald on her Trainspotting teen highs and hitting her stride in her 40s
One of the good things about playing a therapist, says Kelly Macdonald with a laugh, is that you get to sit down a lot. There's a fun scene in the new Netflix thriller Dept Q in which her character, Dr Rachel Irving, weary of her client DCI Carl Morck, plants herself down behind her desk to eat her packed lunch in front of him. Morck may be the kind of troubled detective we're used to seeing in police dramas, but Irving isn't a typical therapist. She's blunt, antagonistic even. It's a 'shitty' job working with police officers, she tells him. Another time she describes him as 'doolally', which in my experience is not something a typical therapist would say; Macdonald, who has had therapy, 'but not regularly', may agree. In the show – adapted from novels by the Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen and brought to the screen by Scott Frank, who was also behind the Netflix hit The Queen's Gambit – Morck is made to see Irving after he survives a shooting. Brilliant but sidelined, Morck is tasked with reviewing cold cases, and moved to a shabby basement office that becomes known as Department Q. The first case for his small crew of misfit detectives is the disappearance of a lawyer four years earlier, who everyone thinks is probably dead. The truth, it soon emerges, is absolutely terrifying. Did Macdonald think she'd be playing a police officer on the show – a role she has played in Line of Duty, Giri/Haji, and Black Mirror? 'No. They specifically told me what it was going to be. But I think I've played a therapist before as well.' We're speaking over Zoom; Macdonald is in Los Angeles where she is filming Lanterns, an HBO adaptation of the Green Lantern comics in which – is this right? – she plays a detective. 'I don't actually, I play a sheriff. Very different.' She laughs. 'I wear a hat and everything.' Macdonald, now 49, has been there since January, and it's hard being away from her two sons, 12 and 17, though they've been out to see her and she gets home to Glasgow whenever she can. 'The guilt never gets easier,' she says. 'I think that's just a working mum thing – you never feel like you're doing either thing as well as you should be. They understand what I'm doing and where I am, and we've got technology at least, so we can see each other's faces.' She follows them on their phones, 'to see where they are, like a sneak, checking up on them. I was doing that a few weeks ago and I zoomed out, and suddenly it was just the Earth, and they were there and I was here. I know this, but it really did something to my brain. Because it's far.' Not to make assumptions about boys, but presumably they're more impressed by her work in Lanterns, or her role in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, than, say, Gosford Park? 'We don't really discuss it too much,' she says. 'I did show one of them the prop green lantern. It doesn't feel like I'm doing a comic thing – it's a drama.' One day they will surely be impressed that their mother was a 90s icon. Macdonald's debut was in Trainspotting, playing Diane, the sassy (underage) teenager Ewan McGregor's Renton gets involved with. Macdonald's parents divorced when she was a child and she grew up in Glasgow with her mother and brother. She didn't do much drama at school but she loved films and TV – even adverts stuck in her mind, and she would act them out. Macdonald remembers one summer when she was obsessed with the western musical Calamity Jane, and would go out to see which other kids were around her estate, and try to get them to act out scenes from it. None of them knew it, she says with a smile. 'Other kids weren't so interested.' Acting, for Macdonald, 'was my form of play. I was always pretending, and it was pretty private, like in my bedroom.' She was reminded of it recently because her older son is doing exams; Macdonald did fairly well at English because she would learn dialogue in her room. She wanted to be an actor but didn't really have much of a plan (a theme, it becomes apparent, throughout her life). Then someone gave her a flyer for open auditions for what would become Trainspotting. She was 18 and working in a restaurant. As she progressed through the stages towards getting the part, it was 'excruciating' she remembers. 'Especially when Ewan McGregor was in the room. He says he couldn't even see what I looked like because I was holding my script covering my face.' In hindsight, she says she can see Trainspotting and its stars were part of a British boom. 'At the time I didn't feel special, I didn't feel part of a …' She pauses. A picture of an old magazine cover came up online recently, and she clicked on it. 'It was, like, Cool Britannia or something. And I was in it. That's really funny today, it's very nice.' Did she not go to celeb parties? Hang out with Liam Gallagher and Kate Moss? 'I might have gone out with Kate Moss once,' she says, her face crinkling at the effort of dredging her memory. She didn't really hang out with actors and wasn't part of a 'scene' – she still isn't. She does remember going to premieres of films she wasn't in. 'I can't imagine doing that now,' she says with a laugh. 'I barely want to go to my own.' Her life in Glasgow – her home town, and that of her former husband, the Travis bassist Dougie Payne – is 'pretty boring', she says. 'I'm surrounded by boys and animals. I have a very low-key life, it suits me.' She misses it when away. 'I need to go and nest.' Was it a deliberate choice to create a down-to-earth life? She never did the Hollywood hustling thing, and doesn't do social media. 'I'm a pretty patient person and every now and then a great script does come along, luckily, and I get the opportunity to be a part of something.' It's not that she isn't ambitious. 'I want to do good stuff and work with good people, I just don't know what the thing is until it comes up, and that's kind of the way it's always been.' Macdonald has done great work, and worked with great people – four years in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, a role in No Country for Old Men, some lovely Brit films such as The Girl in the Café Nanny McPhee, and Swallows and Amazons, not to mention the TV juggernaut that was Line of Duty. With years of acclaim and experience behind her, it was fun to be in the 2017 Trainspotting sequel and not feel intimidated the way she did on the first one. 'I'd seen Ewan at various points in the interim, and it was just really nice to feel like I was with a peer, rather than someone way beyond my sphere. We got to hang out and I wasn't hiding in the toilets.' Even so, Macdonald still sometimes feels a little like she did back then. 'I mean, aspects have got easier, but when they say 'action', it immediately feels like it always did that first time. Like you forget how to walk, really simple things.' She laughs. 'I basically want to please my bosses. I want to please the director. If you get through the first day, it gets better after that.' She meets younger women, 'and I just am so impressed by them', she says. 'They are unapologetic, and will correct you if you're down on yourself about something small and piffling. But that's just the way I was brought up, to be self-deprecating, and they're having none of it. It's really impressive.' It took her until her 40s to feel more like that, she says. 'You stop giving so much energy to things that are silly and don't serve you. I just feel like I'm less apologetic about who I am.' If Macdonald is still fixed as that teenager in Trainspotting in many people's minds, she has been busiest, with her best work, in her late 30s and 40s. 'It's very exciting to read something and feel you can connect to it in some way, and you want to play-act the scenes like I did when I was a kid. Most of my working life, I'm in a room on my own learning lines, which is how I used to play.' It can feel like a slog when it's not working for her. 'But I know when it's a good one, because I'm quite happy to be back in that room.' Dept Q is on Netflix on 29 May.
The Courier
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Courier
5 TV shows filmed in Tayside, Fife and Stirling set to be released
Tayside, Fife and Stirling have provided the backdrop for several upcoming TV shows. The region has played a part in bringing TV dramas, documentaries and gameshows to life over recent months. The programmes, involving stars such as Andrew Lincoln and Kelly Macdonald, will be released by the likes of Netflix, BBC and ITV. Similar film and TV projects have brought millions of pounds to the area in the last year. The Courier has rounded up TV shows recently shot in Tayside, Fife and Stirling that are set to be broadcast in the near future. The upcoming ITV drama saw The Lade Inn in Kilmahog, near Callander, taken over by more than 50 actors and production staff in August 2024. The thriller stars Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead and This Life), Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting) and Indira Varma (Obsession). Set in the fictional Scottish village of Coldwater, the series is written by award-winning playwright David Ireland (The Lovers, Ulster American, Cyprus Avenue). The story follows John (Lincoln), a repressed man who is shocked to find himself in middle age, secretly raging at his life as a stay-at-home dad. A release date for the ITV production is yet to be announced. Production crews descended on Inverkeithing, Dysart, Kinghorn and Anstruther to film scenes for the second series of hit ITV crime drama Karen Pirie last summer. Several roads, including the town's High Street, were closed off to traffic for more than four hours on Tuesday evening as filming continued in and around a chip shop. Produced by London-based World Productions, the show is based on best-selling Fife author Val McDermid's second book in her Karen Pirie series, A Darker Domain. The lead role is played by Lauren Lyle (star of Outlander), who is given a 40-year-old murder case to reinvestigate. A release date is yet to be announced, but author Val McDermid says the series is 'set to arrive on ITV imminently'. Burntisland provided a filming location for Netflix's upcoming detective series Dept Q in June 2024. The series stars Trainspotting actress Kelly Macdonald and Matthew Goode, who is known for his roles in Downton Abbey, The Crown and The Imitation Game. Dept Q is an adaptation of the novels of the same name by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen. The series revolves around Carl Morck, a former top-rated detective in Edinburgh assigned to a new cold case whilst wracked with guilt following an attack that left his partner paralysed and another police officer dead. The series will be released on Netflix on May 29. Actor Robson Green visited Broughty Ferry this week to film with Gladiators star Sheli McCoy. The Soldier Soldier star went paddleboarding on the River Tay on Tuesday during filming for an episode of BBC Two series Robson Green's Weekend Escapes. The show, which sees Green travel across the country meeting famous faces along the way, is currently in its third season. The actor told The Courier that the episode will centre around activities 'that are good for your mental wellbeing', as recommended by Dundee-based gym owner McCoy. An exact date for the episode release has not been announced, but it is understood that it may not be on TV screens until early 2026. Filming for the BBC's new TV gameshow Race Against the Tide also took place in St Andrews this week. The Fife town's West Sands beach provides a backdrop for the BBC's Race Against the Tide. The show sees competitors build sand sculptures against the ticking clock of the incoming tide. The six-part series is hosted by Scottish comedian Iain Stirling – best known as the narrator of Love Island – who will issue additional craft challenges throughout the show. The series will be available on BBC Two, BBC Scotland and iPlayer but a release date has yet to be announced.
