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- The Pot Still — The single Victorian room has poured whisky since 1981, and the Murphys hold the gantry to a fixed ceiling so everything on it is there to be poured.
- The Scotch Malt Whisky Society — Every pour is a Society single cask at cask strength, and the Glasgow gantry runs past 850 of them.
- The Bon Accord — The gantry runs to 380 malts priced from about three pounds to nine hundred a measure.
- The Piper Whisky Bar — Past 300 malts with a bottling claimed from every Scottish distillery, and Whisky Bar of the Year in 2024.
Restaurants33
Celentano'sBib
Destination · Italian · City Centre · $$$
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Dean and Anna Parker won a Michelin Bib Gourmand within six months of opening Celentano's in 2021, held it through four guides, and in June 2026 moved the whole operation from Cathedral Square to a 60-cover room in the Arthouse hotel on Bath Street.
Paesano Pizza
Destination · Neapolitan pizza · City Centre · $
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50 Top Pizza named Paesano the best pizzeria in Scotland in its 2026 Europa awards, eighteen months after founder Paul Stevenson sold the Glasgow sites to the group that owns Di Maggio's.
Loon Fung Cantonese RestaurantJeff ★★★★☆ 2018
Solid · Cantonese · City Centre · $$
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Order the chicken feet in black bean sauce and the satay whelks, which is what Vittles' Glasgow Chinese guide goes back for, and which almost nowhere else in Scotland will sell you.
Sebb'sBibjust added
Solid · Modern small plates · City Centre · $$
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Carlingford oysters go on the charcoal grill and come back finished with spiced lamb fat, Lord of the Hundreds goes into the pakora, and the plates run about ten pounds in a red-brick vault under Miller Street.
Namaste by Delhi Darbar
Solid · Indian · City Centre · $$
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Grandad's Masala Chai took three stars at the 2023 Great Taste Awards, the top tier of a scheme judged blind by The Guild of Fine Food, and the kitchen followed it with six more awards in 2024 out of a field of 13,650 products from nearly 3,500 businesses (DRAM Scotland).
Charcoals
Solid · Indian · City Centre · $$
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Owner Mohammad Sultan was crowned Curry King at the 2024 Asian Curry Awards, the individual title in the Asian Catering Federation's programme, at the same Grosvenor House ceremony where Charcoals took Best Asian Restaurant of the Year for its Scottish region (Asian Curry Awards).
Madurai
Solid · South Indian · City Centre · $$
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There is no wheat in this kitchen at all, and Coeliac UK has audited it rather than taken the restaurant's word for it (Coeliac UK).
Sugo Pasta
Listed · Fresh pasta · City Centre · $$
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Paul Stevenson opened Sugo in 2019 as the pasta follow-up to Paesano, then sold both brands to Di Maggio's Restaurant Group in 2024 in a deal reported at eight figures, so the Paesano crew you were told about are no longer the owners.
MargoBib
Listed · Modern small plates · City Centre · $$$
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The Ox and Finch team opened Margo on Miller Street in October 2024 with 138 covers, their biggest room by far, and Michelin handed it a Bib Gourmand in its first eligible guide, making Scoop the group holding three Glasgow Bibs at once.
Bo & Birdy at the Blythswood
Listed · Brasserie · City Centre · $$$
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The Kimpton Blythswood Square dining room traded as Bo & Birdy until November 2021, when it became iasg, Gaelic for fish.
Nanakusa
Listed · Japanese · City Centre · $$
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The kitchen is staffed the way the food demands: a sushi specialist, a tempura specialist and a dedicated yakitori grill, working ingredients brought in from Japan alongside Scottish veg, meat and poultry.
Mosob Bar & Restaurant!
Listed · Eritrean · City Centre · $$
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Three friends who left Asmara in the early 2000s and came to Glasgow as refugees opened this place in 2022, and it now serves the coffee ceremony with popcorn and incense the way it is done at home (venue).
Dishoom Glasgowjust added
Listed · Bombay cafe · City Centre · $$
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The Glasgow menu carries a haggis pau, spiced pork haggis on buttered buns with Carluke's bacon and honeyed chilli chutney, served under the ceilings of the 1877 stock exchange.
Nuku Nuku
Listed · Sushi · City Centre · $$
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Sushi and sashimi cut daily in a small casual room built for turnover, with ramen, katsu, teriyaki and donburi alongside, and the eel and the duck the two things past the rolls anyone has bothered to name.
Piccolo Mondo
Listed · Italian · City Centre · $$$
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Tony and Giuliana Pierotti left Barga in Tuscany for Scotland in 1962 and opened the first Piccolo Mondo in 1974, and the Argyle Street room is the family's second run at the name, trading since June 2005.
Dundun Xiang
Listed · Chinese · City Centre · $$
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The kitchen cooks Hunan, or Xiang, food and pulls its own noodles for what it calls a "dense, springy texture," on the Charing Cross stretch of Sauchiehall Street.
Pizza Punks
Listed · Pizza · City Centre · $$
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The dough is a San Francisco sourdough starter proofed 48 hours, and the kitchen has put a pizza into the National Pizza Awards final three years running, starting with the Friday Night Curry in 2023.
Damasqino Restaurant & Cafe
Listed · Syrian · City Centre · $$
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The name is Damascus in Arabic, the turmeric, saffron and peppers come in from Lebanon, and the whole operation runs out of a 35-seat room on the Saltmarket with a takeaway counter attached.
Non Viet Restaurant
Listed · Vietnamese · City Centre · $$
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Joanna Nethery, who runs Five March, says where she goes when the weather turns: "I go to Non-Viet for big bowls of pho when it's cold out and the city is a wee bit too fast."
Gōst!
Listed · Steak & seafood · City Centre · $$$
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The name is a smoke story: "We're called Gost because our meat is smoked, and in the past people would mistake peat smoke for ghostly spirits," the head bartender told Homes & Interiors Scotland in December 2022.
Ralph & Finns!
Listed · Brasserie · City Centre · $$$
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Highland venison, sent out rare, in the Bank of England's former Scottish office a stone's throw from George Square (Scottish Field, Peter Ranscombe, 21 September 2022).
Red Onion
Listed · Scottish bistro · City Centre · $$
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John Quigley took a low-level job in Peter Stringfellow's Covent Garden kitchen, ran the place by the end of it, made the Good Food Guide as its youngest head chef at 22, then spent years cooking for Tina Turner, Paul McCartney and Guns n' Roses on tour before opening this bistro…
Gamba
Listed · Seafood · City Centre · $$$
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In the week Cate Devine sat down with him, Derek Marshall made three large pots of his fish soup, sixty bowls each, and then went to Blochairn market to buy the restaurant's flowers himself.
Royâ
Listed · Middle Eastern · City Centre · $$
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Every kebab here goes over a live charcoal fire, including a kebab torsh of lamb fillet marinated in pomegranate molasses and walnut paste.
Sub126
Listed · Italian-American subs · City Centre · $
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It trades out of the basement of a serviced-office building on West Regent Street, which is exactly why the lunch queue works: the customers are already in the building.
ZhangLiang Malatang (Noodle Co.)just added
Listed · Malatang · City Centre · $
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Malatang started with barge workers on the Minjiang River in Sichuan boiling whatever they had over an open fire with peppercorns and chilies, and this is the first Scottish branch of the Harbin chain that turned it into 6,000 shops.
Lychee Oriental
Listed · Chinese fine dining · City Centre · $$
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Jimmy Lee competed on BBC's Great British Menu and judged Channel 4's My Kitchen Rules beside Prue Leith and Michael Caines, and the kitchen he actually cooks in is a listed building on Mitchell Street where he makes every stock and sauce from scratch (venue).
Seoul Korean BBQ
Listed · Korean BBQ · City Centre · $$
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Two GlasgowWorld surveys two years apart put this second among the city's Korean restaurants, and no Glasgow critic has ever written about it.
Alston Bar & Beef
Temp closed · Steak · City Centre · $$$
The restaurant sits in the vaults under Glasgow Central and takes its name from Alston Street, the main street of Grahamston village, which was demolished in the mid-1870s to build the station on top of it.
Paradise Street Food
Listed · Middle Eastern · City Centre · $
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Chicken shawarma runs £6.50 and the charcoal chicken £13 at this counter on Howard Street, where the shop's whole pitch is meat "fired over charcoal, served fast".
Fat Hippo Glasgow
Listed · Burgers · City Centre · $$
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Mike Phillips wrote Fat Hippo as a university business plan and opened it in an end-terrace in Jesmond, Newcastle, in 2010, and the St Vincent Street room was the company's first full restaurant in Scotland.
Jay's Grill Bar
Listed · Chinese grill · City Centre · $$
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The tables on Bath Street are built to run a hotpot broth and a barbecue plate at the same time, and the house brings you the raw material rather than a finished dish.
sprigg
Listed · Salads & bowls · City Centre · $
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The record that explains how this works is not on the menu: Sprigg runs a registered production kitchen at Arrol Place in Bridgeton, so the counter on Waterloo Street assembles what was prepped across town.
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Lazord Syrian Street Food
Listed · Syrian · City Centre · $
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Glasgow's shawarma specialist gave this counter 7 out of 10 and was defeated by the wrap for the wrong reason: the Arabic special is more bread than salad, so the regular one is the better order.
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The Good Spirits Co.
Listed · Whisky & spirits · City Centre · $$
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Three Oddbins alumni opened this basement spirits shop on Bath Street in 2011, and the house policy explains its survival: staff will pour you the whisky neat, in the shop, before you decide to buy it.
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Shilling Brewing Company
Solid · Brewpub · City Centre · $$
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The beer comes off eight conditioning tanks mounted behind the bar and into the glass without a cellar in between, and the pizza dough is raised with brewer's yeast alongside the baker's.
The Citizen GlasgowJeff ★★★★☆ 2018
Listed · Gastropub · City Centre · $$
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The man who opened it said so himself at the launch: "This bar is more about the liquid than the food."
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The Pot Still
Destination · Whisky bar · City Centre · $$
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154 Hope Street has sold spirits since the 1860s, and since 1981 the single Victorian room has been Scotland's benchmark whisky pub, its gantry now holding roughly 1,000 open bottles under a deliberate house cap.
The State Bar
Solid · Traditional pub · City Centre · $
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The woman who has held the licence for about thirty years bakes the pie herself, and her son built the beer list that made the pub's name before he died at forty.
The Bon Accord
Solid · Whisky pub · City Centre · $
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The Bon Accord opened on North Street in 1971, when a pint of real ale was hard to find anywhere in Glasgow, and its gantry now runs to 380 malts priced from roughly £3 to £900 a measure.
The Noble Public House
Solid · Gastropub · City Centre · $$
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There is a rotary evaporator behind the bar, distilling infusions under vacuum at low temperature so the aromatics survive, and what comes out of it are martinis flavored with hot honey, passionfruit and tomato (SLTN).
The Piper Whisky Bar
Listed · Whisky bar · City Centre · $$
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The house list runs past 300 malts and the bar claims a bottling from every Scottish distillery, with the whole menu published as tasting notes you can read before you order.
The Duke's Umbrella
Listed · Gastropub · City Centre · $$
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The team behind Glaschu opened this gastropub in May 2021 in a former gentlemen's outfitters on the corner of Argyle and James Watt Streets, named for the umbrellas the shop once sold, and the kitchen breaks down whole animals for the menu.
The Smokin' Fox
Listed · Gastropub · City Centre · $$
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It won Sunday Mail Pub of the Year at the 2024 Scottish Bar and Pub Awards, a title decided by mystery shoppers who cut a Scotland-wide top ten down to four (DRAM, The Scotsman).
Horseshoe Bar Glasgow
Listed · Traditional pub · City Centre · $
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The island counter runs 104 feet 3 inches, which makes it the longest bar in Scotland and, on CAMRA's measurement of 31.8 meters, the second longest in the UK behind the Falcon in Battersea by about 80 centimeters.
The Counting House - JD Wetherspoon
Listed · Wetherspoon · City Centre · $
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The vault doors were built to resist explosives and blowpipes when this was the Bank of Scotland's head Glasgow office, and now they open onto tables where people eat breakfast at 7am.
The Iron Duke
Listed · Pub · City Centre · $$
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The house beef wellington is wrapped in haggis in place of the mushroom duxelles, so it is oatmeal and suet insulating the beef from the pastry (DRAM).
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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society
Destination · Members whisky bar · City Centre · $$$
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Every bottle poured in this room is a single cask at cask strength, with no coloring and no chill filtration, and the Glasgow gantry runs past 850 of them open for the dram.
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Bloc+
Solid · Late-night bar food · City Centre · $
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Every gig here is free at the door, roughly 400 a year, and the kitchen is what pays for it: food covers went from about 300 a week to between 1,500 and 1,800 as the deals took hold.
Flight Club
Listed · Darts bar · City Centre · $$
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The Glasgow room had counted more than 3 million arrows thrown by the middle of January 2024, a few months after it opened in a former tax hall off George Square.
Devil of Brooklyn
Listed · Speakeasy cocktail bar and day-time coffee · City Centre · $$
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The same room sells espresso at 8am and espresso martinis at midnight: since 5 August 2024 the speakeasy has traded as The Devil's Roast on weekday days, then switched back to a cocktail bar until 1am (GlasgowWorld).
VEGA
Listed · Cocktail bar · City Centre · $$
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Since March 2026 its eight classic cocktails come in three strengths, full, low and zero, at GBP 11, 9 and 7, built so all three look and taste as close to the same as the team could get them (SLTN).
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Malo- Wine & Negroni Bar
Listed · Wine & negroni bar · City Centre · $$
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Andy MacSween is a sommelier, and he built a bar around the two things he drinks, in a Bothwell Street basement that used to be a gym.
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The Mackintosh TearoomsJeff ★★★★☆ 2018
Solid · Afternoon tea · City Centre · $$
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Kate Cranston opened these rooms in 1903 and gave Charles Rennie Mackintosh control of everything, the building, the interiors, the furniture, the cutlery and the waitresses' uniforms, and they are the only tearooms he designed that are still trading in their own building.
Laboratorio Espresso
Solid · Espresso bar · City Centre · $
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A La Marzocco Linea Classic at the foot of an office block on West Nile Street, pulling shots from a lineup of European roasters that changes with the season.
The Willow Tea Rooms
Listed · Afternoon tea · City Centre · $$
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This is the Buchanan Street business Anne Mulhern founded in 1983 and expanded to number 97 in 1997, and its rooms recreate Kate Cranston's Ingram Street tea rooms, the White Room on the first floor and the Chinese Blue Room above it.
Gordon Street Coffee
Temp closed · Coffee roastery · City Centre · $
The roaster is a red Diedrich drum the staff call Deirdre, it sits on the mezzanine over the counter at Glasgow Central's front door, and nobody has been able to reach it since the building next door burned down on 8 March 2026.
Central Cafe
Listed · Cafe, sandwiches and cocktails · City Centre · $
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It trades in the corner unit under the Hielanman's Umbrella, the glass-walled railway bridge carrying Central Station's platforms over Argyle Street, where Highlanders who arrived in the city after the Clearances used to meet and keep out of the rain (Central Cafe).
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Tantrum Doughnuts Gordon Street
Solid · Doughnuts · City Centre · $
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Iain Baillie won a scholarship to Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck, spent hours laying sugar-syruped parsnip slices on dehydrator trays, and now runs an overnight-proved brioche dough through a doughnut counter opposite Central Station.
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