Peggys Pantry

Peggy's Pantry is a small independent breakfast and lunch cafe on Albert Street, the long tenement-and-shopfront spine that runs through inner Stobswell from the Forfar Road junction down towards the centre. The shop trades to the daytime working pattern of the surrounding streets — bacon, sausage and egg rolls in the morning, full breakfasts, baked tatties, paninis, soup and sandwich plates through lunchtime — and serves the Albert Street footfall, the small businesses along the street and the residential trade from the surrounding tenement blocks. Albert Street has been one of the densest takeaway parades in east Dundee for decades, with curry houses, kebab shops, chippies and Chinese takeaways stacked along the same stretch; the cafes that work alongside them, like Peggy's, do a different trade entirely, pulling the morning and lunchtime custom that the evening-only kitchens further along the street don't touch. The shop is the kind of straightforward counter-and-table operation that keeps Stobswell's daytime economy ticking over.