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Before you go

Style
Family-run cafe serving traditional, home-cooked food and all-day breakfasts
Setting
Ballochmill Road, Rutherglen
Signature dishes
Chips & Stew Gravy
Lunch
Mon-Sat 7am-3:30pm; Sun 8am-3pm
Booking
Walk-in cafe; reservations for parties of six or more by phone
Also
Founded in Parkhead in 1986; Stew, stew gravy, soups and cheese sauce made in-house; Kids' menu; Takeaway for collection and delivery

Glasgow restaurant

Benson's Cafe

3.9(186 reviews)
Open now

Address

Ballochmill Rd, Rutherglen, Glasgow G73 1PT, UK

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Opening hours

Closes at 3:30 pm on Saturday 1 November

  • Monday: 6:30 AM – 3:30 PM
  • Tuesday: 6:30 AM – 3:30 PM
  • Wednesday: 6:30 AM – 3:30 PM
  • Thursday: 6:30 AM – 3:30 PM
  • Friday: 6:30 AM – 3:30 PM
  • Saturday: 6:30 AM – 3:30 PM
  • Sunday: 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Overview

Benson's Café on Ballochmill Road is the Rutherglen café of Benson's, a family-owned and family-run business founded in Parkhead in 1986 that now has six cafés. It serves traditional, home-cooked food, with proper breakfasts served all day and lunchtime favourites such as macaroni cheese and chips, homemade chips with stew gravy, and lentil soup. The stew, stew gravy, soups and cheese sauce are made in-house, and the square sausage and burgers use meats from the Glasgow butchers Lennons and Rodgers. There is also a kids' menu. It is open Monday to Saturday 7am-3:30pm and Sunday 8am-3pm. Benson's is first and foremost a walk-in cafe, so no booking is required, but it takes reservations for parties of six or more by phone on 0141 647 5032. A takeaway menu is available for collection and delivery.

Reviews

1.0J2 Official

Horrible food. Too much salt on the food even though I never asked for salt. Sausages were undercooked, the bacon dry, hash browns no taste black pudding too salty and undercooked, beans bland, eggs undercooked, they forgot my mushrooms considering I paid for them. Overall horrible, inedible and cold. I hope I don’t get food poisoning. The chicken wrap wasn’t better. Never order from here. This cost me £16.53 not worth it at all

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1.0Maddie Paterson

Absolutely disgusting excuse of a baked potato with beans and cheese about 5 single beans on the full potato the potato itself is dry and discoloured it’s obviously been lying went straight in the bin

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1.0michele gellatly

Just got chips and stew gravy the stew was non existent and a measly portion. I got the same from the forge cafe and they know how to serve customers a good portion. So unhappy with this. They are cheap either to be served that insufficient portion

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1.0Brian Paul

Probably the worst breakfast I’ve ever had. 4 items placed on top of each other in a wee box 🙈😂 guy serving was brand new. But Christ the state of that breakfast 🫣🫵 subways along the road and cheaper

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1.0Kenedy Faulds

Really disappointed with the food I have received, the Mac and cheese was absolutely disgusting couldn’t even eat it, the wrap wasn’t even toasted just soggy, also ordered a club sandwich and got chicken with salad on toast, the only thing that was actually correct and eatable was the soup and chips with stewed gravy

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