The Corinthian Club is a large complex of highly decorative rooms dating back to it’s original incarnation as the Glasgow and Ship Bank in 1842. Since then it has seen several different uses but has been the rather swanky Corinthian since 2010. It consists of several function rooms, dining rooms, a casino and the Tellers Bar where we were ensconced. 
Afternoon tea?
This is a big operation and they can probably do many things extremely well however our order for coffee and scones tested them to the absolute limit. They simply could not get their head round the fact that we did not want afternoon tea. Every time we asked for coffee and scones they offered us afternoon tea and when we explained that we just wanted coffee and scones they would say “absolutely no problem”. However, we had to go through this process at least six times with different people .. aarrgghh! Eventually the penny dropped and quite quickly the coffee arrived … but no scones.
It gave us time to look around at the rather splendiferous surroundings. More than twenty minutes later however, having observed every nook and cranny, and just as we were about to get up and leave, they arrived. Apparently there was a technological problem in the kitchen?? Fresh coffee was brought along with profuse apologies. By this time, of course, our dander was well and truly up. 
We had already decided that this was the last place on earth to get anywhere near a topscone award .. but, damn it, the scones were extremely good! Two plain and two cinnamon and all of them just right. Warm and crunchy on the outside, soft in the middle, lovely jam and cream. How utterly annoying? In normal circumstances we would have had no problem with a topscone award however there are only so many allowances you can make. So, although we thoroughly enjoyed them, they were disqualified due to technological problems .. heyho.
Let the politicians do the fighting
Technological problems cannot be blamed for us heading off to war in yet another country. Sheer warmongering stupidity. Perhaps it makes no difference. In the past fifty years, 1968 has been the only year that Britain has not been at war with somebody. At the grand old age of 111, Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier of WW1 summed it up very well “I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder”.
Back to basics
Scones should be a small test for a place like this. For all its grandeur, we think the Corinthian Club needs to pay more attention to a few basics.
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Great to see some comments coming in.
Fab!
As Billy said we were all set to walk out as the scones were taking so long to come. When they did arrive I was all set for them being horrible, but oh no, they were delicious, damn it, wouldn’t mind going back for more. We got a nice apology from the waiter for the delay.
I must say they do very good cocktails though, Billy.
Well John, its alright for some, if we could have afforded the cocktails we might have tested them as well .. sometimes we have to share a scone! Do you not fancy starting a cocktail blog? We actually had some cocktails last week in Browns Hotel in Mayfair, Pat’s ‘one way ticket’ just about blew her head off.
Hi Billy,
I agree, the Corinthean is an impressive place but the service is generally far less impressive in my experience. Carol and I took your recommendation on board yesterday and had coffee and scones in the Gleneagles Dormy House, it was a great experience. No problems with the service there and lovely scones and coffee. Thanks for the recommendation and keep up the good work, testing scones for the nation.
All the best, Tom.
Good to hear from you Tom. Funnily enough I was at a meeting in Glasgow last night (Corbyn and Sturgeon were there too) and discovered that the G1 Group(Stephan King) who own the Corinthian are notoriously bad employers, treating their staff very badly .. could explain a lot. If I had known that when I was writing the scones I might not have let them off so lightly. Glad you enjoyed the Dormy .. it’s not that difficult really.