Guy's

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• Average price 2 courses:
   £7.50 (set lunch)
   £18.50 (evening meal)
• House wine: £11.45 per bottle

• Hitlisted
• High point: Guy's evident passion for the food shines through
• Low point: Skull 'doorman' slightly disconcerting
• Food served: Tue-Thu noon-10pm; Fri/Sat noon-11.30pm; Sun 12.30-9.30pm. Closed Mon.
• Bar open: Tue-Sat 11am-midnight; Sun 12.30-10pm. Closed Mon.
• Open since: 2006
• Also offers: Childrens portions, Childrens high chairs, Wheelchair access, Pre-theatre menu

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

This review is from the 2007 edition.

Guy Cowan presides personally over the wide range of styles and influences that characterise his eponymous restaurant in the heart of the Merchant City. Somewhat surprisingly, touches of grandma's parlour melded with personalised 'pop art' (including a nattily dressed skull inside the front door) succeed in creating a warm and quirky place in which to enjoy well-crafted food from a menu reflecting Guy's own favourite dishes. Careful sourcing from reputed suppliers and a solid foundation of Italian influences - such as the excellent home-made veal ravioli in rosemary cream - ensure a successful core to the menu, allowing some more idiosyncratic combinations to be conjured up from the Tardis-like kitchen. It's not often you'll find classic comfort food like mince and tatties on the same page as plump tuna and scallop sashimi with ponzu plum sauce, but the variety works. Desserts cover an equally wide spectrum from warming crumble and custard to a light and subtle muscat wine jelly. Despite the long, thin layout of the premises, with a bar to the fore, large groups and couples tend to find their space, create a lively atmosphere and are well attended by efficient and communicative waiting staff.