Tina - christened Argentina by her Chilean seaman dad and Scottish mother - runs a cafe in Drumoyne Road in Govan. Her assistant is Elaine. They can quite often be found in the late afternoon sitting shattered after a hard day eating a cake straight off the shop counter. They do meals like curry, lasagne, mac n cheese and salad to eat in and to take away, though it has to be said there's not much demand for salad. Their all day full breakfast goes down a treat.
Tina's cafe is at the heart of the community right next to a couple of schools and the health centre and across from Elder Park and the Library. People drop in at all times of the day, especially elderly folk. Parents come in at the end of the school day for a coffee before their kids come out of the school. The kids come in for snacks too. Charles delivers books to the homebound with me and the two of us go in every Thursday for a roll n fried egg and a coffee. The coffee is pretty poor but the egg roll is superb.
The prices are ridiculously low.
The welcome is great.
From time to time, I think Tina and Elaine should get a bit of publicity and I consider contacting BBC Scotland Radio, which would love the 'craic'. But then I think: Are you nuts? Every community has a Tina's cafe. And then again I think: I hope so.
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