The Waterfront Takeaway

The Waterfront Takeaway is a small daytime cafe-style shop on the Whitesands, the broad riverside parade in central Dumfries that fronts the River Nith below the Devorgilla and Buccleuch Street bridges. The Whitesands has historically been the town's market and bus-stance strip — and it floods regularly when the Nith comes up after rain — so the daytime walk-up trade from buses, market stalls and the riverside car parks is what shapes the Waterfront's format. It is an early-opening hot-and-cold rolls shop rather than an evening takeaway.

The menu is firmly in the Scottish breakfast-roll tradition: filled rolls with bacon, sausage, square-sliced sausage, black pudding, tattie scone, hash brown and egg combinations through the morning, plus filled rolls, paninis, baked potatoes, burgers and home-style hot dishes through the lunchtime window. The shop trades morning through early afternoon for collection and a short delivery window across the central postcode, and reviews on Tripadvisor settle around the breakfast and chip-shop offerings. Customers often pick up rolls and eat them on the riverside parade overlooking the Nith.