West End
20 rooms on the Glasgow list
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Modern Scottish2 here
- The Prancing Stag — Runs a six-course seasonal menu on Scottish produce, down to charred Denhead Farm asparagus in spring.
- 111 by Modou — Modou Diagne runs a seasonal Scottish tasting menu in the room Nico Simeone handed him in 2020.
Fish and chips2 here
- Old Salty's — Runs haddock, cod and hake at one price, with the gluten-free fish fried in a separate fryer.
- Simeone's — Fries a large haddock angel cut, with a breaded special for anyone who wants the fillet without batter.
The roll and square sausage2 here
- Old Salty's — Builds the breakfast roll on lorne sausage with a potato scone, off the griddle before noon on a weekday.
- Simeone's — Lists a scooby: square sausage, link or bacon in a roll with a potato scone and a fried egg.
Restaurants10
The Prancing Stag
Solid · Scottish · West End · $$
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Head chef Neil Keevill beat close to 1,400 entries to win Gressingham's 2025 competition, and the prize turned into menu items: smoked duck breast with pomegranate and orange salad, and aromatic shredded duck with beetroot and kumquat chutney (Craft Guild of Chefs).
Paesano Pizza West End
Solid · Neapolitan pizza · West End · $
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The West End Paesano cooks in a converted art deco bank on the corner of Great Western Road and Otago Street, and every table in it is sighted on the open kitchen.
Kochchinew
Solid · Sri Lankan · West End · $$
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Kotthu is made by chopping godhamba roti into curry with two metal blades on a hot griddle, and the clatter is why Cate Devine wrote that "You hear it before you see it."
111 by Modou
Solid · Modern Scottish tasting · West End · $$$
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Nico Simeone hired Modou Diagne as a kitchen porter at 111 by Nico in 2014, and in March 2020 he handed him the restaurant.
Old Salty's
Listed · Fish & chips · West End · $$
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Two kitchens share one address on Byres Road. The chippy and breakfast griddle are on the ground floor, the Italian kitchen and cocktail bar upstairs.
Lennoxnew
Listed · Modern grill · West End · $$$
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The dry-age fridges are in the dining room and they hold fish as well as beef, which is a harder thing to do well and a rarer thing to show people.
KOTHU ROTTIjust added
Listed · Sri Lankan · West End · $
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Four pounds buys a pair of butter parotta here, which a Glasgow curry blogger who has eaten across Sri Lanka called the best value in the city.
Simeone's
Listed · Fish & chips · West End · $
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The Simeone family opened its first cafe at 429 Glasgow Road, by Yoker Athletic's ground, in 1901, and the fifth generation is frying haddock on Byres Road under the family name.
TuscoJeff ★★★★★ 2020
Listed · Italian-inspired sharing plates · West End · $$
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Two Fat Ladies opened at 88 Dumbarton Road in 1989 and took its name from the house number, and the room is now on its third identity: since 4 March 2026 it trades as Tusco.
Massawajust added
Listed · Eritrean · West End · $$
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The food comes out on injera and you eat it with your hands. That is the whole argument for a Habesha kitchen, and this room is built around sharing platters (venue).
Street food1
MacTassos
Listed · Greek gyros · West End · $
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A vertical spit is the right machine for a park kiosk: the stack self-bastes as it turns, the outer face crisps under the burner, and the cook shaves only what has already browned, so the meat that reaches the pita is the part that just came off the heat.
Provisions1
Grunting Growler Craft BeerJeff ★★★★★ 2018
Solid · Craft beer · West End · $$
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Jehad Hatu wrote the business plan for this bottle shop on a cancer ward at 24 and opened it in 2016 with a £1,000 Prince's Trust grant and a £5,000 loan; a decade on it stocks 250-300 beers across four double fridges with eight taps pouring in the shop.
Pubs & cask2
The Drake
Listed · Gastropub · West End · $$
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Three businesses trade out of one townhouse on the corner of Woodlands Road and Lynedoch Street, and the pub in the basement is the one people come to for Sunday lunch.
Cottiers
Listed · Bar & kitchen · West End · $$
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The upstairs restaurant used to leave a card on every table explaining who William Leiper and Daniel Cottier were, which is a reasonable thing to do when your dining room is a decorated Victorian parish church.
Cocktails1
The Hug and Pint
Listed · Vegan Asian small plates · West End · $
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The room takes its name from Arab Strap's album Monday At The Hug & Pint, a record about a pub that does not exist, and the kitchen upstairs has cooked off a blackboard that changes as plates run out since 2015.
Coffee4
1841Jeff ★★★★★ 20212◆
Solid · Cafe-bar · West End · $$
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David Thomson started roasting coffee in Glasgow in 1841 and also manufactured Naperian vacuum coffee pots, a Scottish invention he shipped worldwide.
Cottonrake Cafe
Solid · Bakery-cafe brunch · West End · $$
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The Skinny called Cottonrake's ham and Gruyere baguette "a sourdough baguette so crispy it hurts," and this is the address where you can sit down with one.
serendipity
Listed · Brunch · West End · $
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The morning roll here is built on a croissant roll they laminate in the kitchen, and the chef who set that menu ran the stoves at The Finnieston.
Hinba Specialty Coffee
Listed · Specialty coffee · West End · $
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Four single origins stand on the bar at once, a Brazil, a Peru, a Rwanda and a Colombian decaf, all roasted by the company that owns the counter and built its roastery on the Isle of Seil in Argyll in 2019 (venue, SLTN).
Bakes & sweet1
Big Bear Bakery
Listed · Artisan bakery · West End · $
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The black sesame sourdough is the reason to come, and The List's 2025 Glasgow bread guide rates it among "strong contenders for the city's best," with the instruction to get there early.
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