Cafe Alba — Restaurant in Scotland

1/4/24 i read a review that they have scones as most cafés do & I think they're HOMEMADE, but I will find out the next time i'm in Cumernod.

Most scones r varied - like plain, fruit, treacle, cheese & cherry BUT in this café there r a few more that i've never heard of b4. So over you go & check them all out.

The person in the review had a lemon & white chocolate one & sang the praises of it & that's ONE of the main reason i ventured over & also to check out the many ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews.

Well the lemon & chocolate scones gets a 10/10 the only thing about it was a bit crumbly when I tried to cut it in halve as u can see, & I forgot to ask if it could be heated up a wee bit, a few folks like them het up.

At least my broccoli 🥦 & cheese WATTERY soup was hot enough & the small cheese & onion toastie tasted very nice - at least u could taste the NON BLAND cheese 🧀 in it 👍

I don't know if my coffee was piping hot🔥when it came, but it soon cooled down to only warm when I came to drink it, so I asked one off the 5 pleasant waitresses that I have spoken too if I could have some hot 🔥 water to heat it up & it wasn't a problem for her to give me some hot water. So there u have it & I will certainly make a return visit & hopefully their LENTIL soup will be...

When this place first opened everytime for years I thought of sitting in I was overwhelmed with anxiety by the indifferent, sutle racist staring I got from a lot of the white people sitting here. As a victim of vicious racisum in this very depressing very bigoted town I try to avoid places that don't have a single coloured person in them. Once I sat in and did not feel comfortable as the white folk kept looking at my every move. I would always just get a take out. One day I finally got the courage to sit in as it was not too busy. I was pleasantly surprised by the excellent service, the fresh delicious food which I already knew they did from taking out. I would definitely come again but a bit pricy on some favourite dishes. Cafe Alba is the only decent place that offers such a wide range of traditional british food. Pity Cumbernauld people from generation to generation have not changed from the day this totally anitsocial very judgemental and ignorant...

Went into Alba yesterday afternoon for a late to go, placed my order with the gentleman and was waiting for the girl to get my latte however once she had finished making two latte's for a colleague she turned round and said to the guy I am going to say hello to my niece and left me standing I thought the guy was going make my coffee but no he starts making table orders and I am still standing without any acknowledgement well that was it for me I then asked a girl to refund me the cost of the latte and the reply was no problem without even asking me what was wrong. I think the management need to take their staff aside and give them some customer service training ,good job I am not in charge because the girl that left me waiting would have all the time in the world to see her niece because she would have been putting her coat on and informed her services are no...