North Star Cafe

The North Star cafe is a quirky and intimate setting, where you can enjoy some homemade cake and delicious coffee or tea. With the cosiness and comforting feel of a friend’s living room, the effortless DIY aesthetic translates itself into the North Star Cafe’s complete absence of a formal menu, opting instead to rather innovatively write the daily specials in felt tip on the white tiled walls with accompanying pictures. Friendly staff will prepare your cuisine of choice in front of you and at a very reasonable price to boot.

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It is rare that I feel so moved by a dining experience that I turn to the internet to write about it, but the experience I had at North Star today was so awful I felt that people should know. I LOVED this place, and would have used to agree whole heartedly with the great reviews it has received in the past. However, the cafe has recently changed hands, and has suffered a dramatic decline in quality.

We had the french toast, a bacon sandwich, a full cooked breakfast and scrambled eggs. The bacon sarnies and french toast used to easily be some of the best in glasgow. Now, the bacon is fatty and overly salty. The bread, once organic and gorgeous, with a lovely fluffy inside and golden crust, has been replaced by low quality, rubbery bread. The cooked breakfast was half burned, as were the scrambled eggs. The French toast came with slices of processed cheese, not the lovely grated cheddar it used to have,and golden syrup instead of maple syrup! When we asked the cook why the processed cheese, he argued it was the same as cheddar, I did not know what I was talking about, and that they were using it because "it was cheaper". It would seem cheaper raw ingredients are the key here as they attempt to make savings, but sadly this has come at the cost of losing the great cooking north star had under the old management. I will not be going back; I would advise you to avoid it too.
Posted by Ben | Sunday December 2011 @ 18:05
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