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Corner Shopjust added
Destination · Wine bar · Yorkhill · $$
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Conor McGeady opened this room because, in his words, "there's not the kind of Spanish restaurants in Glasgow that we like to see," and thirteen months later it took New Business of the Year at the 2025 SLTN Awards (SLTN).
The Pot Still
Destination · Whisky bar · City Centre · $$
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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.
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.
The ClarenceBibjust added
Solid · Modern British over charcoal · Glasgow · $$
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The room downstairs is a pub and the dining room sits on the mezzanine above it, and almost everything sent out of either goes through a charcoal grill.
Koelschip YardJeff ★★★★★ 2018
Destination · Craft beer bar · Strathbungo · $$
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The bar takes its name from the koelschip, the shallow open vessel lambic brewers use to cool wort overnight and catch wild yeast, and the Strathbungo room drinks to the name: sour-forward taps, small independents only, poured in thirds so you can taste across the board.
Ubiquitous Chip
Solid · Scottish · Hillhead · $$$
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Ronnie Clydesdale named his 1971 restaurant after the thing he refused to serve, and 55 years later fried potatoes have crept back only as far as the small bar menus, where they arrive with mojo verde and smoked sea salt.
Kelvingrove Café2◆
Solid · Cocktail bar · Finnieston · $$
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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."
Sebb'sBibjust added
Solid · Modern small plates · City Centre · $$
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Carlingford oysters go on the charcoal grill and come back finished with spiced lamb fat, Lord of the Hundreds goes into the pakora, and the plates run about ten pounds in a red-brick vault under Miller Street.
Lismore
Solid · Whisky pub · Partick · $
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The urinals are dedicated by name to the Duke of Sutherland and the other men who ran the Highland Clearances, which tells you most of what you need to know about who drinks in this Partick corner pub and why.
Shawarma King!
Solid · Shawarma · Merchant City · $
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The owner gives away exactly one thing about the method: the family marinates the meat with its own recipes the day before it goes over the counter, so "the meat gets enough flavour" (STV News, 27 February 2025).
The Absent Ear
Solid · Cocktail bar · Merchant City · $$$
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A basement speakeasy named for the ear Van Gogh lost, hidden in Merchant City behind an unmarked buzzer, and you only get the street address when you book; the team behind it took SLTN Cocktail Bar of the Year in 2023.
Shilling Brewing Company
Solid · Brewpub · City Centre · $$
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The beer comes off eight conditioning tanks mounted behind the bar and into the glass without a cellar in between, and the pizza dough is raised with brewer's yeast alongside the baker's.
The Gate
Solid · Cocktail bar · East End · $$
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A pub has held a licence at 251 Gallowgate since James Reid took the lease in 1826, and the bar there now keeps more than 160 whiskies behind it, directly across the road from the Barrowland Ballroom.
Kimchi Cult!Jeff ★★★★★ 2018
Solid · Korean fusion · Partick · $
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Asked where she actually eats, the owner of Five March said the best fried chicken in Glasgow comes out of a Partick counter with about ten seats and no toilet.
Inn Deep
Solid · Craft beer bar · Kelvinbridge · $$
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The bar sits inside the arches of an old railway station below Great Western Road, at water level on the River Kelvin, and has poured 30-plus taps of craft beer there since 2012 for the family team behind Alloa's Williams Bros Brewing Co.
Bloc+
Solid · Late-night bar food · City Centre · $
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Every gig here is free at the door, roughly 400 a year, and the kitchen is what pays for it: food covers went from about 300 a week to between 1,500 and 1,800 as the deals took hold.
Lunar Wine & Cocktail Bar
Solid · Cocktail bar · Strathbungo · $$
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The cocktail list is rebuilt on the lunar cycle, so the drink you liked last month is gone and the seasonal ingredient behind it has moved on too.
Redmond's
Solid · Craft beer bar with a Japanese and Korean kitchen · Dennistoun · $$
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In a trade with a bad record on pay, this bar is on record paying a living wage and cutting its staff in on the profits.
Sylvan
Solid · Vegetarian & natural wine · Woodlands · $$
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Colin Campbell and Jake Martell left The Hug and Pint to open a vegetarian kitchen that treats vegetables like protein: they smoke tomatoes and dress them in chilli butter, and they give hen of the woods a Southern-fried batter and a miso mushroom ragu.
The Noble Public House
Solid · Gastropub · City Centre · $$
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There is a rotary evaporator behind the bar, distilling infusions under vacuum at low temperature so the aromatics survive, and what comes out of it are martinis flavored with hot honey, passionfruit and tomato (SLTN).
Phillies of Shawlandsjust added
Solid · Neighbourhood bar · Shawlands · $$
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The chef who won the National Burger Awards title in 2025 spends his weeks frying chicken in the kitchen of a Southside neighborhood bar.
The Piper Whisky Bar
Listed · Whisky bar · City Centre · $$
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The house list runs past 300 malts and the bar claims a bottling from every Scottish distillery, with the whole menu published as tasting notes you can read before you order.
The FinniestonJeff ★★★★★ 2024
Listed · Seafood & gin · Finnieston · $$$
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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.
The Sparkle Horse
Listed · Pub · Partick · $
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The pub takes its name from Mark Linkous's band Sparklehorse and its owners include members of Bis, which tells you more about the jukebox than any beer list would (Time Out, Malcolm Jack).
The Duke's Umbrella
Listed · Gastropub · City Centre · $$
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The team behind Glaschu opened this gastropub in May 2021 in a former gentlemen's outfitters on the corner of Argyle and James Watt Streets, named for the umbrellas the shop once sold, and the kitchen breaks down whole animals for the menu.
The Drake
Listed · Gastropub · West End · $$
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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.
The Belle2◆
Listed · Neighbourhood pub · Hillhead · $$
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Four independent sources over eleven years all recommend this pub, and not one of them names a beer.
Nanakusa
Listed · Japanese · City Centre · $$
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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.
Drygate Brewing Co.Jeff ★★★★☆ 2021
Listed · Brewery taproom · East End · $$
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Built into a 1930s box factory sharing a wall with Wellpark, where Tennent's has brewed since 1556, and one of the very few bars anywhere pouring Tennent's unfiltered on draft.
The Ben Nevis
Listed · Whisky pub · Finnieston · $
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Traditional music runs here on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 8pm, led by a few core players who pick up different guests every week, so the pub says it plainly: "No two sessions are…
The Citizen GlasgowJeff ★★★★☆ 2018
Listed · Gastropub · City Centre · $$
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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."
Scotia Bar
Listed · Traditional pub · Merchant City · $
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The pub sells itself as Glasgow's oldest on a 1792 date, while CAMRA's record has it "first licensed in 1815," and either way it has been serving the ground between the Trongate and the Clyde longer than almost anything else standing.
The Spanish Butcher
Listed · Steak · Merchant City · $$$
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The beef is Rubia Gallega, the Galician Blond breed, bought direct from northern Spain rather than through the Scottish supply chain every other steakhouse in the city uses.
Horseshoe Bar Glasgow
Listed · Traditional pub · City Centre · $
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The island counter runs 104 feet 3 inches, which makes it the longest bar in Scotland and, on CAMRA's measurement of 31.8 meters, the second longest in the UK behind the Falcon in Battersea by about 80 centimeters.
The Counting House - JD Wetherspoon
Listed · Wetherspoon · City Centre · $
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The vault doors were built to resist explosives and blowpipes when this was the Bank of Scotland's head Glasgow office, and now they open onto tables where people eat breakfast at 7am.
The Islay Inn
Listed · Whisky pub · Finnieston · $
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The bar was an ice-cream factory until Thomas Blue bought it in 1968 and turned it into a pub called The Carousel, keeping the old ice-cream cellar as his drinks store (Old Glasgow Pubs).
Dishoom Glasgowjust added
Listed · Bombay cafe · City Centre · $$
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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.
The Locale
Listed · Pizza · Finnieston · $$
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Josh Barr spent GBP 100,000 turning 241 North Street around in 2019, and most of it went out the back door into a yard that holds 120 people on poured concrete under heaters.
Flight Club
Listed · Darts bar · City Centre · $$
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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).
Malo- Wine & Negroni Bar
Listed · Wine & negroni bar · City Centre · $$
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Andy MacSween is a sommelier, and he built a bar around the two things he drinks, in a Bothwell Street basement that used to be a gym.
The Hug and Pint
Listed · Vegan Asian small plates · West End · $
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The room takes its name from Arab Strap's album Monday At The Hug & Pint, a record about a pub that does not exist, and the kitchen upstairs has cooked off a blackboard that changes as plates run out since 2015.
The Cartvale
Listed · Pub · Busby · $
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A Member of Parliament tabled a motion in the House of Commons congratulating this pub, then a second one when it and the pub down the street were both shortlisted for a UK award.
The Iron Duke
Listed · Pub · City Centre · $$
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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).
Vinyl Barjust added
Listed · Bar · East End · $$
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The bar exists because Gary Watson of the Lapelles kept talking about somewhere in Glasgow for musicians to drink, and after he died his friends built it.
The Curlers RestJeff ★★★★☆ 2017
Listed · Pub · Hillhead · $
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The pub takes its name from the pond that used to freeze behind it, where the Partick curlers played, and the building is two 18th-century cottages knocked into one room over two floors.
Murphy’s Pakora Bar
Listed · Pakora · Finnieston · $$
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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).
Òran MórJeff ★☆☆☆☆ 2024keep walking
Listed · Bar and music venue · Hillhead · $$
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Jeff gave this building one star and told people to keep walking to Ashton Lane, and he would still drink whisky here at one in the morning because nothing else in the West End is open.
Canton Lane
Listed · Cantonese · Partick · $$
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A Cantonese kitchen at 339 Dumbarton Road cooking xiao long bao, cheung fun and siu mai on a street Glasgow's press writes about constantly, and it has somehow never been reviewed.
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).
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