The Prancing Stag
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).
Why go
A 36-cover room on Ashwood Gardens in Jordanhill, owned by Rory Cox and family, cooking modern Scottish off named producers rather than a broadline supplier. The spring 2024 tasting menu ran six courses at GBP 75 with wines paired by Wine Importers Scotland, and the supplier list was published with it: John Vallance Seafood, Greenheart Growers, Ochil Foods and Campbell's Prime Meats (What's On Glasgow). The menu changes with the season, so the fixtures are the sourcing and the technique, charred asparagus with a crispy egg yolk, rose veal with a wild garlic and snail risotto, a nettle and Hebridean blue cheese rarebit standing in for the cheese course.
Order this / avoid
- Order: the current seasonal tasting menu, and anything with duck on it. Keevill's competition dishes are the plates on this menu you can trace to a judged result.
- Avoid: the Orkney crab cannelloni if it reappears. Erskine wrote that the
pasta and presentation weren't as strong as the other dishes
3.
What locals & experts say
- The Scotsman Food and Drink, Rosalind Erskine (31 May 2024): the menu had
interesting creative touches
anddid showcase a range of seasonal products,
withthe staff were excellent
and the roomrelaxed, informative and fun.
Scored 8/10 across ambiance, drinks, food, service and value.3 - Scran Awards 2024 (The Scotsman): winner, Hidden Gem Glasgow & West category.4
- Craft Guild of Chefs (2025): Keevill's Gressingham Foods win, from a field of close to 1,400 entries.5
- Food hygiene, checked: Pass, inspected 16 December 2025.7
- Local rec: Jeff's save: "Multiple awards, hidden gem", and the second half is the name of the Scran category this room won in 2024.
Good to know
- Timing: closed Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday is dinner only, Thursday adds a lunch service, Friday and Saturday run from noon, Sunday closes at 22:00 with the last booking at 19:30.
- Booking: through SevenRooms on the venue's site. Thirty-six covers in a residential street, so book rather than chance it.
- Getting there: Jordanhill station is a few minutes' walk, off Crow Road in the far west end. This is a single-site restaurant, not a branch.
Jeff's take (his words)
- Note: "Multiple awards, hidden gem", and the second half is the name of the Scran category this room won in 2024.
Verdict
should-visit — A 36-cover kitchen in a residential Jordanhill street cooking a six-course seasonal menu off named Scottish suppliers, run by a head chef who beat close to 1,400 entries in Gressingham's 2025 competition and then put the winning duck work on the menu. The Scotsman's Rosalind Erskine scored the food 8/10 in May 2024 and called the cooking creative and seasonal while naming one weak dish, which is the kind of judgment that holds a rung. It sits short of must-visit because nothing here is unrepeatable elsewhere in Glasgow and the accolade record, one regional award and an unpinned AA Rosette, is modest for that claim.