Saramago Café Bar

Anything and everything arts-related happens at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) on Sauchiehall Street but it's hungry work, engaging with all those aesthetics, so the premises have a café bar too in the shape of Saramago. It's on the floor level of a modest atrium space – like an interior courtyard – and it's vegan. This means snacks like dolmades with tahini and mint dip; a sandwich with tofu sausage, tomato and chilli jam perhaps; a salad like butterbean and red quinoa. This is Scotland however so one of the heftier main courses is vegan haggis fritters with chips, pickles and tartare sauce. As a café bar, there is the expected list of drinks to accompany your meal – or you could drop in here for a bottle of beer or glass of wine.