Finnieston
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Whisky bars2 here
- The Ben Nevis — Staff pick a malt off the ten-foot back-bar shelf to whatever you tell them you like.
- The Islay Inn — Keeps an Islay gantry in the bar Thomas Blue built out of an ice-cream factory in 1968.
Pakora2 here
- Mother India's Cafe — Monir Mohammed's ginger and green chilli fish pakora is named among the dishes the house is built on.
- Murphy’s Pakora Bar — A Finnieston pakora bar since 1996, whose haggis, neeps and tatties pakora comes under a whisky sauce.
Restaurants15
Crabshakk (Finnieston)2◆
Destination · Scottish seafood · Finnieston · $$$
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An architect opened a seafood counter with a handful of tables on Argyle Street in 2009, and a Glasgow food desk credits it with pulling every other chef into Finnieston.
Gloriosa!
Destination · Mediterranean · Finnieston · $$$
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Rosie Healey had no culinary school and no professional kitchen behind her when she wrote to Yotam Ottolenghi asking for work, got a trial at his Islington restaurant within weeks, and stayed three years (The Caterer).
Mother India's Cafe
Destination · Indian · Finnieston · $$
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Monir Mohammed learned Indian home cooking from family in the Punjab, came back to Glasgow and cooked it with Scottish haddock, Scottish lamb and his mother's salmon dish.
Five MarchJeff ★★★★★ 2018
Destination · Small plates · Finnieston · $$$
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Joanna Nethery bought into her first bar at 19 while studying politics, and the restaurant she opened with Kevin Small in 2018 on a quiet Charing Cross corner now sits on Condé Nast Traveller's list of Glasgow's best places to eat.
Ox and FinchBib
Solid · Small plates · Finnieston · $$$
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Jonathan MacDonald cooked for the McLaren Formula One team before he opened Ox and Finch in 2014, and Michelin has given the room a Bib Gourmand every year since.
FallachanMichelin
Destination · Scottish chef's table · Finnieston · $$$$
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Craig Grozier ran Fallachan as a private and wild dining outfit for 12 years, cooking foraged Scotland for closed rooms, before opening a 12-seat communal chef's table in a railway arch at Eastvale Place in March 2024, three dinner services a week.
Bistro Eleven Fifty FiveMichelinnew
Solid · Scottish-Irish bistro · Finnieston · $$$
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The onglet comes from Hannan's in County Down, aged in a Himalayan salt chamber, which is the clearest sign on the menu that Peter McKenna is cooking his Irish side and not just talking about it.
Unalome by Graeme Cheevers★just added
Solid · Modern European with Japanese influence · Finnieston · $$$$
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Graeme Cheevers took a Michelin star eight months after opening his first solo restaurant and has held it in every guide since, and the way in is the three-course lunch at £55 rather than the £135 tasting menu.
Porter & Rye
Solid · Steak · Finnieston · $$$
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The meat-ageing cabinet sits in the dining room, and the Good Food Guide calls it "altar-like," which is fair for a restaurant that holds its beef 42 days before anyone cooks it.
TRUST by Modou
Solid · Tasting menu · Finnieston · $$
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Modou Diagne started at 111 by Nico as a kitchen porter in 2014 and was running the kitchen by 2017, and the restaurant he opened for himself in 2025 does not print a menu.
The FinniestonJeff ★★★★★ 2024
Listed · Seafood & gin · Finnieston · $$$
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The building went up as a drovers' tavern around 1800 and has been a cabinet maker's, a hotel and a dairy farm since, and today it pours sixty-odd gins alongside Scottish shellfish under a ceiling you can touch.
Civerinos
Listed · Pizza · Finnieston · $$
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Four American doughs run out of one Glasgow kitchen: New Haven apizza baked thin and hard until it chars, New York slices cut big enough to fold, Detroit pressed into a pan so the cheese caramelizes against the metal, and a lunchtime panuozzo, which is the same dough baked plain then…
The Locale
Listed · Pizza · Finnieston · $$
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Josh Barr spent GBP 100,000 turning 241 North Street around in 2019, and most of it went out the back door into a yard that holds 120 people on poured concrete under heaters.
Frank’s Pizza & Subs
Listed · New York pizza · Finnieston · $
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The room seats about twelve. Bookings open only on the day you want to eat. In January 2026 GlasgowWorld ranked its pie the best New York-style pizza in the city.
Murphy’s Pakora Bar
Listed · Pakora · Finnieston · $$
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Sanjay and Jiggy Majhu ran the original as a late-night Finnieston pakora bar from 1996 to 1999, and on 8 April 2022 their son Nitish reopened the name a few doors along Argyle Street (Glasgowist).
Provisions1
Suresh & Sons The Kitchen
Listed · Indian street food · Finnieston · $
walk-in
The address is an organic wholefood and Indian grocery on Argyle Street, and the kitchen is the counter inside it, which is why Jeff's note says it is hard to find.
Pubs & cask2
The Ben Nevis
Listed · Whisky pub · Finnieston · $
walk-in
Traditional music runs here on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 8pm, led by a few core players who pick up different guests every week, so the pub says it plainly: "No two sessions are…
The Islay Inn
Listed · Whisky pub · Finnieston · $
walk-in
The bar was an ice-cream factory until Thomas Blue bought it in 1968 and turned it into a pub called The Carousel, keeping the old ice-cream cellar as his drinks store (Old Glasgow Pubs).
Cocktails1
Kelvingrove Café2◆
Solid · Cocktail bar · Finnieston · $$
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The bar freezes its own blocks and portions them with a 14-inch Japanese ice saw, using methods The Skinny traces to "tools and techniques used by cafe owners in 1930s Glasgow."
Wine1
Bar Daninew
Listed · Basque wine bar and asador · Finnieston · $$
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The grill was built into the room before the room opened, and it burns coals for Galician blonde beef, the old dairy cattle an asador wants for their yellow fat.
Producers1
The Clydeside Distillery
Solid · Single malt distillery, tours & shop · Finnieston · $
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The Pump House was built in 1877 by John Morrison, whose firm also built the Queen's Dock it supplied with hydraulic power, and his great-grandson Tim Morrison bought the derelict building back in 2011 and put stills in it.
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