THE Moll had taken a creme puff.

Her mood took a turn for the worse after I suggested we try out Single-end, a new cafe and bakehouse in the Garnethill hood. I figured it might bring back fond memories of her first home in Glasgow's upper east side.

"I was born in a Dowanhill townhouse," she screeched with a flick of that morning's shampoo and set.

After managing to placate her with a new sequinned number fresh off the peg from Catherine's of Partick, I revved up the Buick and we headed up state.

Single-Ed has re-opened as a cafe after a short tenure as a restaurant. The location, tucked away on Renfrew Street in an area populated mainly by students from Glasgow School of Art, perhaps didn't help matters.

First impressions are good. The cafe has a pleasant outdoor seating area and I'm already imagining a sun-soaked day topping up our tans after our next Cuban vacation.

It's like arriving at someone's home, a home you would quite like to live in yourself if the bosses flung you a few extra grand in your wage packet.

There are no tables free when we arrive so a friendly gal shows us to a 'living room' area, complete with comfy leather couches and a coffee table where we can eat or wait until a table becomes available in the main cafe area.

Gives us a chance to check out the menus.

There are a wide range of breakfast and lunch options, with unusual and interesting sounding combinations. "We put love and care into everything we cook" is the cafe's mantra and everything is made with seasonal, and where possible, locally sourced ingredients.

Soon enough, a table becomes available in the main cafe area.

Casing the joint, it's beautifully decorated in a lovely shade of blue that is reminiscent of a Mediterranean taverna. The first sight when you walk through the door is a table laden with all the bread customers can choose from including banana and pecan and Sweet Potato and Almond, which are all available to buy and take home.

Another table displays all the home baked cakes, which goes down well with sweet-toothed Toots. There are Scottish themed gifts on offer and plenty of visual quirks to catch the eye if the chat dries up with your companion.

While the Moll is powdering her nose, I order up the Single-end Eggs Benedict which is gluten free and vegetarian.

The poached egg is topped with avocado on a bed of roast sweet potato with spinach and red onion and cashew and tarragon hollandaise sauce. It's a flavoursome and tasty combination and extremely filling. I can't finish the generous-sized portion.

The Moll has skipped breakfast and plumped for the vegetarian burger, which has an aubergine base, and an extra topping of halloumi cheese.

She declares it nice enough but is a traditional kind of gal and prefers a more traditional, stodgier burger with melting cheese ( to wash down the previous night's refreshments, no doubt but I'm not pressing her on this).

On the plus side, she declares that the food is imaginative with a good choice of sides. The burger comes with sweet potato fries.

We can't leave without sampling some of the sweet treats so I ask the waitress to pack a slice of millionaire shortbread. We share it later and it's every bit as good as you would expect from a home-baked cake.

Food ****

Atmosphere ****

Service ****

Eggs Benedict - £7.00

Vegi burger £9,00 with halloumi £1.50

Drinks

Orange and soda water - £1.50

Latte - £2.80

Cakes

Millionaire Shortbread £3.00

Total £25.30