Dine

This review appears in the The List's Eating & Drinking Guide 2009 – in the shops now or buy online.

Dine is a beautifully presented little gem of a restaurant. The decor is simple and refined, with pale-coloured walls, edged with a mirrored border. Cream leather seating is set around tables covered in crisp white table linen, and lacy pink and brown ribbons for napkin rings add a nice touch. Waiters are jolly and attentive and the menu, with its focus on seasonal produce, changes every eight weeks. With a definite hint of Scottish flavours, the food could be described as international. To start, the Roquefort and poached pear tart on salad leaves sees the robust flavour of the blue cheese complemented by the clean-tasting pear and a tangy walnut dressing. For main course, the almost iconic American ‘surf & turf’ is a skilfully seared medallion fillet of beef topped by a skewer of garlic-infused prawns and scallops – simple, tasty and satisfying. The mother of all desserts beckons on the menu at Dine – Grand Dessert, a taster for sharing and good value at £9.95. It is a gut-busting Monty Python experience, a veritable ‘wafer-thin mint’ moment of sweet things: cranachan, crème brûlée, pannacotta, sticky toffee pudding, blackberry fool, white chocolate cheese cake and lemon tart. It has to be the most wonderfully wicked dessert in Glasgow and an excellent reason to go out to Dine.

• High point: The last word in desserts
• Low point: Being so far out of town