Visit Shortbread By Gryphon for the best shortbread. Period. Double Period..
Peggy has been baking shortbread and crafting a multitude of other delicacies in her Monkland storefront since the early 2000's. Pass by and she'll always greet you with a smile (and usually a sample of her latest confectionery creation!).
Let me give you a rundown of some of my favourite options from Gryphon:
Shortbread - this one's in the title, delicious, crumbly, with just the right balance of sweet and salty/buttery flavour.
Scones - available as fresh individual scones, or in a traditional farl of 8 wedges, frozen so you can bake them at home.
Irish flapjacks - imagine a granola bar held together by butter and brown sugar, OK go to Gryphon and you won't have to imagine.
Millionaire bars - small shortbread rectangles with a layer of English Toffee on top, covered in Belgian Chocolate sprinkled with edible gold dust.
Millionaire sandwiches - small shortbread cookies (my favourites are the smaller ones :D ) with a layer of English Toffee sandwiched between them, and the whole thing covered in Belgian Chocolate sprinkled with edible gold dust!
If you appreciate the true Irish and Scottish heritage of shortbread and scones, this is the place to go.
I dare you to stop at just one!