Cottonrake Bakery

You'll find yourself queuing outside Cottonrake most mornings—and it's worth the wait. This is West End baking done right: thick-crusted sourdoughs with real flavour, buttery croissants that actually shatter when you bite them, and the kind of cinnamon rolls that ruin you for chains forever. The operation is refreshingly no-nonsense. You rock up, you pick from what's on the counter, you pay a fair few quid and leave happy. It's the sort of neighbourhood bakery that makes you think Glasgow's food scene has genuinely grown up.