GSC Café

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• Average price 2 courses: £5 (lunch)

• High point: Friendly staff, healthy food
• Low point: The Science Centre is difficult to get to without a car
• Food served: Mon–Fri 10.30am–2.30pm; Sat/Sun 10.30am–3.30pm. Closed Mondays from late October to end of March.
• Open since: 2008
• Also offers: Vegetarian options (at least 25% of main courses), Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access, Takeaway

This review appears in the The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2008
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Seemingly lifting itself out of the Clyde like a great silver-scaled beast, Glasgow Science Centre is a child's wonderland of levers and buttons and things that whirr and ping. The near-constant clatter and wail of kids learning and having fun can make the café a bit noisy, but the views here should calm all but the most incorrigible grumps. The venue occupies a colourful and well-lit space in the shadow of the Glasgow Tower's rotating spindle, and the city's nautical history unfolds outside the massive windows: with the Waverley paddle steamer often parked just outside; the tall masts of the clipper ship SV Glenlee visible across the river and the last of the Clyde's ship-building cranes nodding away in the distance. With the café recently brought back under in-house control, the menu has lost its chips-with-everything burger bar feel and adopted a more wholesome approach. Fizzy drinks have given way to fruit smoothies, and salad bowls and wholemeal sandwiches are now the order of the day. Hot food is limited but includes tasty and nourishing soups as well as baked potatoes. Closed Mondays during winter.