Hillhead
12 rooms on the Glasgow list
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Modern Scottish3 here
- Cail Bruich — Lorna McNee took Glasgow's first Michelin star in 18 years on hand-dived Orkney scallop and Scottish game.
- Stravaigin — Has served its own haggis and a scallop plate with XO sauce off the same menu since 1994.
- Ubiquitous Chip — Ronnie Clydesdale opened it in 1971 on Scottish sourcing, and the oatmeal ice cream has been on since his day.
The sub-crawl2 here
- The Belle — A few minutes from Kelvinbridge subway, and the taps are where this pub has always put its money.
- The Curlers Rest — Sits right beside Hillhead subway station, which makes it the first pint off the train on Byres Road.
Restaurants6
Ka PaoBibJeff ★★★★☆ 2026
Destination · Southeast Asian · Hillhead · $$$
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Ka Pao cooks Southeast Asian sharing plates in the basement of the Botanic Gardens Garage, a Category A-listed 1912 motor garage saved from demolition by a local campaign, and has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand every guide year since 2022.
Cail Bruich★
Destination · Modern Scottish fine dining · Hillhead · $$$$
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When Michelin gave Cail Bruich a star in January 2021 it was Glasgow's first in 18 years, and Lorna McNee had been running the kitchen for five months, straight off 13 years under Andrew Fairlie at Scotland's only two-star restaurant.
StravaiginMichelin
Destination · Modern Scottish · Hillhead · $$$
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The name is old Scots for wandering with intent, and since 1994 the kitchen has proved it by serving its own haggis and a scallop plate with XO sauce off the same menu.
Crabshakk Botanics2◆
Destination · Seafood · Hillhead · $$$
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The Botanic Gardens Garage went up on Vinicombe Street in 1912 with Venetian window arches and a green and white tiled front, and since 22 April 2022 it has held over 100 covers of Scottish shellfish.
Ubiquitous Chip
Solid · Scottish · Hillhead · $$$
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Ronnie Clydesdale named his 1971 restaurant after the thing he refused to serve, and 55 years later fried potatoes have crept back only as far as the small bar menus, where they arrive with mojo verde and smoked sea salt.
Little Curry House
Solid · Indian · Hillhead · $$
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The kitchen sets its own paneer, which is a daily job most curry houses in the city hand to a supplier, and it lands in the saag and the mutter.
Pubs & cask2
The Belle2◆
Listed · Neighbourhood pub · Hillhead · $$
walk-in
Four independent sources over eleven years all recommend this pub, and not one of them names a beer.
The Curlers RestJeff ★★★★☆ 2017
Listed · Pub · Hillhead · $
walk-in
The pub takes its name from the pond that used to freeze behind it, where the Partick curlers played, and the building is two 18th-century cottages knocked into one room over two floors.
Whisky1
Òran MórJeff ★☆☆☆☆ 2024keep walking
Listed · Bar and music venue · Hillhead · $$
walk-in
Jeff gave this building one star and told people to keep walking to Ashton Lane, and he would still drink whisky here at one in the morning because nothing else in the West End is open.
Coffee3
Naked Soup3◆
Solid · Soup and cafe-bar · Hillhead · $
walk-in
The drinks license here arrived during lockdown, after the two brothers who run the place spent it in Barcelona, Berlin and southern Spain working out what Glasgow was missing.
University Cafe
Listed · Ice cream cafe · Hillhead · $
walk-in
Pasquale Verrecchia was a ship's carpenter on the Clyde, and the timber panelling he cut for his own cafe in 1918 is still on the walls while his great-great-grandchildren work weekend shifts underneath it.
Kember & Jones
Listed · Bakery-cafe · Hillhead · $$
walk-in
The bakery bakes its bread on site daily and rotates through sourdough, rye and raisin, wholemeal spelt and pain de champagne, and the espresso is roasted by the same business at its own off-site roastery.
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