THE Glasgow Times is featuring the six candidates hoping to be voted Glasgow's Favourite Business for 2024. This year's nominees are Boveda Hair & Beauty, Café Gandolfi, Clyde 1, Glasgow Film Theatre, Nursery Story and Waverley Excursions Ltd. The award, sponsored by this paper, is part of the Glasgow Business Awards organised by Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.
Established back in 1979, Merchant City’s Café Gandolfi is one of the oldest-family run restaurants in Glasgow. Serving "the best of Scottish produce" the eatery has an ever-evolving menu that draws on owner Seumas MacInnes’s Hebridean heritage and he says he is "absolutely delighted" the eatery has been nominated for Glasgow’s Favourite Business. Seumas said: "It’s a really lovely compliment to the business and the team, it’s great.
"Hopefully all my customers vote for me." (Image: Gordon Terris, Newsquest) When Café Gandolfi opened its doors in the former offices of the old cheese market on Albion Street it gave Glasgow its first taste of "real café society" with the city’s first cappuccino machine. Seumas says he believes part of why the business continues to be such a success all these years later is how consistent it has remained both with its staff and the quality of food .
He explained: "There’s a consistency to staff and the product. "It’s just a magic place, there’s something special about it and because it’s been going for 45 years, people have a past with it. "Lots of people of my ag.
