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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.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Destination · Museum & gallery · Kelvingrove · $

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The daily organ recital exists because Dr Jim Hunter, who raised money for the refurbishment through the closure years and played at the 2006 reopening, wanted Glasgow to have something to rival the one o'clock gun at Edinburgh Castle.

Glasgow Botanic Gardens

Solid · Gardens & Kibble Palace · Botanics · $

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John Kibble built the glasshouse as a private conservatory at his house at Coulport on Loch Long, sold it to the Gardens in 1871, and by 1873 it was standing on Great Western Road under a dome 150 feet across, working as a concert hall where Disraeli and then Gladstone were installed…

Partick Farmers' Market

Solid · Producers' market (2nd & 4th Saturday) · Partick · $

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City Property will not issue a trader badge unless the stallholder has "grown, reared, cooked, brewed or baked the goods themselves", which is the line that decides what this market is.

Namak Mandi

Listed · Pakistani · Southside · $$

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A room that won Glasgow Restaurant Dining Experience of the Year in April, and a plate that Glasgow's most prolific curry critic sat down to twelve days ago and found tired.

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…

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 Rail Yard Market

Listed · Farmers market & daily food traders · Kelvinbridge · $

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It sits on the old Kelvinbridge railway yard by the Kelvin, and the man who opened it in May 2025 put a full-time community engagement officer on the payroll along with the traders.

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.

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 East End Fox

Listed · Pub food · East End · $

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The pub at 192 Glasgow Road traded for decades as the Barrachnie Inn, which is why the hygiene register still carries the old name against the address.

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.

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