Lux

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• Average price 2 courses: £29.50 (set dinner)
• House wine: £17.75 per bottle

• High point: The 'grand dessert' lives up to its billing
• Low point: Pricey
• Food served: Mon-Sat 6-10pm. Closed Sun.
• Private dining: Up to 14 covers
• Open since: 1998
• Also offers: Childrens portions, Childrens high chairs

The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2008 is now in the shops.

This review is from the 2007 edition.

Lux is one half of a labour of love that saw the 19th century former Kelvinside railway station transformed from fire-gutted shell to airy dining space. Sitting above the brasserie-style Stazione, Lux is more elegant and grown-up. Well-spaced tables are draped in white linen and laden with menus set on hefty wooden blocks. Service is warm and measured right from the production of dainty appetisers of salmon, haggis or chicken. The bounteous starters include a salad of warm guinea fowl livened by figs and honey-mustard dressing. Mains favour meaty Scottish fare, although fillet of pork with Stornoway black pudding is given a sugary twist with strawberry and rosemary dressing. Vegetarians, therefore, might have no alternatives to potato dumplings smothered in pesto cream, goat's cheese and red onion purée. A highlight is the 'grand dessert', a feast of six desserts including crumbly coconut and Malibu parfait and delicate almond tart with vanilla pod sauce. Two imaginative offers tempt midweek diners: on Tuesdays, groups of up to eight eat at half price by presenting a voucher picked up on a previous visit; on Thursdays, the restaurant pays for taxi journeys of up to 20 miles.