Il Pavone
Princes Square,
Buchanan Street
- Food served: Mon–Fri noon–10pm; Sat noon–10.30pm; Sun 11.30am–5pm.
- Pre-theatre times: Mon–Thu 5–7pm; Fri 4–6pm
- Also offers: Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Wheelchair access, Pre-theatre menu
- Capacity: 120
- Largest group: 20
- Open since: 1991
- House wine: £12.50 per bottle
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The grand peacock sitting above Princes Square's entrance, overlooking Buchanan Street's shoppers, gives its name in Italian to Il Pavone, whose diners can watch those inside Glasgow's most upmarket shopping centre. It's a favourite daytime haunt for trendy parents, with courtyard tables in the mall's basement allowing them to enjoy their meal while letting the children run about the central floor area. The restaurant aims above the standard fare of most Italian restaurants, providing high-quality food in extremely generous portions. Starters include thick slices of Parma ham accompanied by chunks of melon, and a caprese salad of creamy mozzarella drizzled with olive oil and served with tomatoes and sprigs of peppery basil leaves. The first-rate pizza caruso has strips of tender chicken and sweet roast peppers with little puddles of molten mozzarella on a thin, crispy base. Seafood and fish dishes are a house speciality, evidenced in a pan-fried, flaky fillet of moist salmon served on a bed of courgettes, mange-tout, onions and peppers, with tiny baked new potatoes on the side. Desserts focus on flashy ice-cream: coppa vesuvio comprises vanilla scoops topped with crushed meringue, doused in Bailey's liqueur.
- High point: Princes Square people-watching
- Low point: Princes Square prices
Reviews of Il Pavone (The Courtyard, Princes Square, Buchanan Street, Glasgow)
- 1. FionaT, Disapointing! – 23 September 2009, 8:22pm
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Just been for a meal here and were very disapointed with it. Nice staff and ambiance but the meal was awful. My starter was ok (crostini) but my husband had the pate and said it wasn't good and came with bread instead of toast which he thought would have been better. Both out main courses were terrible. I had a mushroom risotto which was completly spoiled by the addition of what must have been a whole pint of cream or more and not much flavour of anything else other than something stringy which I think was spring onions. My husbands carbonara was the same. We both love Italian food and had been expecting something authentic - looked great - such a shame the food was so bad!
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