Sun 27/1 Tribeca

Address: 102 Dumbarton Road (just at the bottom of Byres Road)
Website: none but you can see the menu at http://www.glasgowwestend.co.uk/show.php?contentid=569 or phone 0141 576 0122

The name comes from Tribeca an area in downtown Manhattan, and I love brunch in New York so expectations were high when I first came here. Tribeca is styled on the New York cafes that I love and is one of my favourite places for brunch, when I think brunch Tribeca is the first place that I think of.

Me and my sis arrived at about half 10 this morning and were told that it was going to be about a 40min wait for food as 2 big groups had just arrived, this was fine by us as we were in no rush but if you want a quick brunch (surely a cardinal sin) this might not be the venue for you.

I ordered a chai latte and my sis ordered a pineapple juice and a soy cappuccino. The latte was huge and had a drizzle of honey on top, I consider myself something of a chai connoisseur and the ones in Tribeca are for my money the best you can get in Glasgow (and better than any i've ever had in London). The cappuccino and pineapple juice were also well received.

My sis ordered the veg breakfast (£6.90) and I ordered the ciabatta with 2 sausages (£2.50) with a side of hash browns (cheeky). What I love about Tribeca is that you can get a really nice brunch for not much money. I could have had my sausages on either Bagel, Croissant or Ciabatta and they are all huge and there are various combinations available.

Tribeca's brunch speciality is eggs, they do eggs every which way and however you want them you get loads, the breakfast comes with 3 eggs, 3 fricking eggs! The omelets are made with 5 and they're served with toast, you are not leaving this place hungry.

The food arrived and my sausages were great, meaty and nicely herbed, the ciabatta was also great - not too crunchy and nice and airy and the hash browns were certainly not the kind you get in McDonalds. My sis's veggie breakfast consisted of 2 veggie sausages, mushrooms, a huge mountain of scrambled eggs, 2 hash browns, tomato and 2 slices of thick toast (no beans though, I suppose that is authentically New York but I love beans!). She wolfed down the mushrooms in about 5 seconds so I guess that they were good. She gave a positive review of everything else but ended up leaving a sausage and quite a lot eggs, so much food that she was beaten - this doesnt happen very often.

I've been to Tribeca many times and between me and my friends we have had most of the brunch menu, we've never been disappointed but my sis give particular mention to the eggs florentine. My advice is take the Sunday paper with you and enjoy the wait.

(I also have to mention the toilet, in itself nothing special but the decor is fantastic, a graffiti style mural of yellow cabs and various new york landmarks with a quote at the top - awesome)