We visit Glasgow’s newest sandwich shop Sister Midnight in the Saltmarket

From the team behind Cafe Strange Brew and Mesa is Sister Midnight, a brand new sandwich shop located in Glasgow’s Saltmarket.

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00:00Somewhere where you could pick up something interesting every other day.

00:04Hi there, I'm Laurie of Sister Bednight located on King Street in the city centre of Glasgow.

00:10I like to describe it as an everyday sandwich store. It's not these like, well, people will

00:15argue that it is these massive sandwiches but I think they're kind of more subdued sandwiches

00:21that you could eat every day on your lunch break. We do good coffee as well and little deli items

00:27that you might pick up for the weekend or for having friends round or to gift someone as a present.

00:34We've also got a really cool book store, magazine store located in the shop. Not run by us, it's

00:40Ripe Magazine. Stupidly I fall in love with shop units and this one had caught my eye and I tried

00:46to get the lease on it for a good few years. I've always really liked this part of the city.

00:51It seems to be where like independent businesses sort of start and thrive

00:56because the rent rates are a wee bit more affordable than a bit further into the city and this unit

01:01really kind of caught my imagination. It's beautiful corner unit, big windows and just a lot of natural

01:07beauty and I knew I wanted to do a sandwich shop at some point in my life and the lease finally came

01:14up for here and I was like bingo, this is where it's going to be. In my generation you would never

01:19dream of opening a business when you were young. That just seemed like the impossible. That was for people

01:24with money and for you know people that were already business people but I feel now people are confident

01:32to kind of just throw everything they've got at something that they're passionate about and follow

01:38it through and I just think that's that's really cool that young people are doing that and people

01:45are just kind of gambling and risking everything to follow what they want to do and I think it's never

01:51been like that before as much. It's always you know it used to be quite stuffy the food industry but

01:57now it's you know relaxed casual but people making some really really amazing things. Pizza joints have

02:03opened up on like a shoestring budget but they're like doing the best pizza that you've ever tasted.

02:08So the main highlight for me is the fact that it's real bread. It's not shop bought chemically,

02:13it's real bread baked fresh every day like no rubbish in it you know like basic basic ingredients. We work

02:21the sandwich fillings around the bread because that's the star of the show. Kind of very loosely based

02:26on sort of Italian deli kind of old school you know with salami and mortadella and mozzarella. I've not

02:33done it but I really like the idea of having like a sort of soprano style deli and just trying to find a little

02:37something for everybody as well. We've got like two vegan options as well and these vegetarian options and it will be a

02:43rotating menu. I will do specials as well I believe it should always be an evolution of the menu if

02:49you think you've completed it and you know you've not like you should probably just give up if you

02:54think you've perfected your your menu you should always keep me pushing and creating.