Pubs & bars and "Glasgow"
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- The Living Room
The Living Room offers an abundance of choice with a wide range of high quality food - Moskito
Moskito is a laid-back bar with an extensive drinks list as well as great food - The Monkey Bar
The Monkey bar serves up bar favourites and mixes great cocktails - Black sparrow
Black Sparrow offers traditional pub food and wide ranged drink list
All Bar One
62–72 St Vincent Street,
Glasgow,
G2 5TS
With floor-to-ceiling windows on the corner of St Vincent and West Nile streets, All Bar One is well placed to watch the world go by over a drink or a bite. Such is its bustling nature, however, it seems as if few people have time to linger at its…
The Arches Café Bar & Restaurant
253 Argyle Street,
Glasgow,
G2 8DL
This venue seems to offer something for everyone – renowned clubbing for late-night revellers, theatre productions for the culture vultures and a small accomplished restaurant for the foodies. Located downstairs from the main entrance, a funky bar with…
Arta
The Old Cheesemarket, 62 Albion Street,
Glasgow,
G1 1PA
Arta does well to bracket itself as the ultimate leisure suite for an aspirational generation weaned on Ready Steady Cook and Grand Designs. A cavernous, opulent venue for eating, drinking, disco dancing and live music, its menu accordingly hedges its…
Babbity Bowster
16–18 Blackfriars Street,
Glasgow,
G1 1PE
This Merchant City institution wears its historical robes lightly. Babbity Bowster, named after a Scottish country dance, is sited in a late 18th-century tobacco merchant’s townhouse – all that remains of an entire street built by renowned architect…
Baby Grand
3–7 Elmbank Gardens,
Glasgow,
G2 4NQ
Just a few short steps from Charing Cross station, the Baby Grand is by day mainly filled with office workers and commuters who do lunch and coffee in the long thin room, but by night the mood changes to a more leisurely vibe as the pianist takes over.
Bacchus
80 Glassford Street,
Glasgow,
G1 1UR
Weekends are busy at this Merchant City bar, catering for the post-work and pre-club crowd. The interior is stylish, with comfy low cushioned benches, bar stools and standard tables offering seating options to suit your night. Be careful to arrive…
The Bank Café Bar
443 Clarkston Road,
Glasgow,
G44 3LL
Part of the Maclay Inn’s chain, this former bank has been nicely refurbished with solid wood and leather furnishings and a chrome-topped bar. Crane your neck to see the detailed cornicing and dramatic domed rooflight. There’s a good selection of draft…
Bar Budda
8 Cresswell Lane,
Glasgow,
G12 8AA
Although Thai-influenced food has been a characteristic of this high-concept chain for several years, more recently the West End branch has also been focusing on Scottish ingredients while still retaining a flavour of the Far East. Embedded in…
Bar Gandolfi
64 Albion Street,
Glasgow,
G1 1NY
This stylish little bar upstairs from Café Gandolfi is something of a hidden gem, and the management like to keep it that way by advertising mostly by word of mouth. There simply isn’t space for more than a handful of diners and drinkers, around the…
Bar Kandi
185 Hope Street, City Centre,
Glasgow,
G2 2UL
Having revived its reputation as a stylish weekend destination (after a change of hands and name a while back), Bar Kandi has also developed a degree of humility since its Candy Bar days: it rarely feels like somewhere reserved only for the beautiful…
Bar Milano
2 Mains Avenue, Eastwood Toll,
Glasgow,
G46 6QZ
From its pleasantly neutral décor and friendly service to the suburban location, Bar Milano ticks all the boxes for a comfortable neighbourhood trattoria. It’s housed in a converted bank but where such buildings often possess a cold grandeur, the…
Bar 91
91 Candleriggs,
Glasgow,
G1 1NP
From business suits to groups of students, Bar 91 is as non-pretentious a venue as you get in the Merchant City. Clearly a local for many, its red velvet curtains and dimly lit décor, as well as a smattering of disco balls and a TV fireplace, make it…
Bar Soba
11 Mitchell Lane,
Glasgow,
G1 3NU
Tucked next to the Lighthouse, the popular bar serves a wide range of South East Asian fusion food that’s proved a hit with the pre-clubbing crowd. The ground floor bar area and downstairs restaurant space share a cool functional design with booths…
Bar Ten
10 Mitchell Lane,
Glasgow,
G1 3NU
Bar Ten’s style is trendy but effortless. Fairy lights are dotted about the bar and a high ceiling makes it feel spacious. Metal benches and tiled walls give it an almost industrial feel too. Celebrating its 20th birthday in 2011, the bar remains a…
Barça Tapas and Cava Bar
Princes Square, 48 Buchanan Street,
Glasgow,
G1 3JN
Eating at Barca Tapas and Cava bar, situated in the upmarket Princes Square mall, is a classy experience. If you can, grab a table on the terrace which overlooks the light and bright shopping centre and browse the impressive menu. The calamari with…
Ben Nevis
1147 Argyle Street,
Glasgow,
G3 8TB
Inspired by its designer's West Highland ancestry, the Ben Nevis is a cramped, quirkily assembled pub that indulges the celebrated Ranald McColl's fondness for 'natural' materials, from the 'Highland faultline' along the floor, to the organic angles…
Bier Halle
9 Gordon Street,
Glasgow,
G1 3PL
Sitting quietly off Buchanan Street, the Republic Bier Halle is easy enough to miss. Still, descend its dark stark stairwell and it soon reveals itself like some secret underground bunker, bustling with stylish professionals and students. As hinted at…
The Big Blue
445 Great Western Road,
Glasgow,
G12 8HH
Once again part of the Paperinos group after a flirtation with other management, this West End favourite’s chief selling point is its riverside location, the bar section opening on to the Kelvin with outdoor tables that are always packed in summer…
Big Slope
36a Kelvingrove Street,
Glasgow,
G3 7SA
It would be interesting to know how many folk come into Big Slope for a drink, but end up having something to eat. That's what makes a good bar food menu: perched on the table, teasing and appetising. Here we have pub favourites with lovely twists…
Black Sparrow
241 North Street,
Glasgow,
G3 7DL
Tucked in tight off Charing Cross, the Black Sparrow is somewhat of an antidote to your average cramped city bar. Decked out in tasteful art pieces and resplendent leather booths, it immediately reveals a considerably classy atmosphere at play. This is…
Booly Mardy's
28 Vinicombe Street,
Glasgow,
G12 8BE
What appears to be simply a discreet cocktail bar for West End suits is much more. Booly Mardy’s is bigger and smarter than the plain brick façade suggests, revealing neat dark wood tables topped with flickering candles and fresh flowers, a scattering…
Boudoir Wine Bar
Merchant Square, Candleriggs,
Glasgow,
G1 1LE
With its lavender-themed colour scheme, candle-lit tables and comfy booths overhung with frilly canopies, Boudoir is never likely to be a hit destination for a lads’ night out. Ladies enjoying a glass or two after a hard day’s work or shopping are the…
The Brass Monkey
1004 Argyle Street,
Glasgow,
G3 8LZ
The Brass Monkey is the type of institution you would be proud to claim as your local. Luxurious and spacious seating booths provide the ideal setting to relax and chat, cradling a glass of ‘the wine of the time’, which changes every six to eight…
Brel
39–43 Ashton Lane,
Glasgow,
G12 8SG
Namesake Jacques Brel would definitely recognise this informal wood-filled bar as a distinctly European approach to dining and beer. The former stables at the end of Ashton Lane has the air of a Gallic tavern with its oak-lined walls, wooden floors and…
BrewDog Glasgow
1397 Argyle Street,
Glasgow,
G3 8AN
Fraserburgh-based BrewDog’s controversial craft beer revolution rumbles ever onwards with the opening of its latest bar in Glasgow’s West End. Joining outlets in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, the new bar – modern and industrialesque – has a prime site with…
Brutti Ma Buoni
Brunswick Hotel, 106 Brunswick Street,
Glasgow,
G1 1TF
With its long bar and tall walls filled with an assortment of colourful bottles, Brutti Ma Buoni has the air of a stylish Italian enoteca with a dash of urban Spain thrown in. Metallic tables, leather seating and cream and black walls set the chic mood…
Bunker
193–199 Bath Street,
Glasgow,
G2 4HU
The atmosphere of Bunker is ever-changing – by day this bar offers light bites; in the evening it shows off its full menu; and at 9pm the house DJ takes to the decks to get patrons in the mood to hit one of the numerous clubs in the area. Fixed price…
Café Cosmo
Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street,
Glasgow,
G3 6RB
Glasgow’s arthouse cinema, the GFT, has been keeping the city’s cinephiles happy since the 1970s. The appealing art deco building has a dedicated café named after the original Cosmo Cinema that opened on the site in 1939. The café is a long way from…
Chinaski's
239 North Street,
Glasgow,
G3 7DL
Even if Charles Bukowski – whose biographical alter-ego Chinaski’s is named after – mostly lived off a liquid diet, this dark, discreet hipster haunt just off the main drag of Sauchiehall Street is as much about its food as it is its drink. A huge…
Clark & Sons
14 Busby Road, Clarkston Toll,
Glasgow,
G76 7XL
Playing to a local crowd, this new Southside venture aims to offer a slice of city centre wine and dine glamour without the cab fare. The vast first floor space is subtly divided: young groups gather for drinks on the comfortable couches while the…
Coopers
499 Great Western Road, West End,
Glasgow,
G12 8HN
Beneath the ornate ceilings and chandeliers in this rather grand establishment hang four large corner screens that regularly show football. But Coopers caters for a wide spectrum of customers: young beer drinkers and the occasional tea-sipping…
The Corinthian Club
191 Ingram Street,
Glasgow,
G1 1DA
Never shy of the wow factor, Glasgow's G1 group have recently gone to town refitting and relaunching their flagship venue with five dizzying and dramatic floors of themes, bars and lounges. Tellers Bar and Brasserie occupies the massive central hall…
Cottier's
93–95 Hyndland Street,
Glasgow,
G11 5PX
Ascending the tight spiral staircase, leading from the grounds of this stunning converted church, an elegant dining space awaits – dark wooden flooring with matching tables and original church seating contrasts against the green and gold walls, with…
The Counting House
2 St Vincent Place, City Centre,
Glasgow,
G1 2DH
This grandiose building in the very heart of the city centre is vast and ornate, even by JD Wetherspoon standards. What was once a Bank of Scotland now feels like the living room of a stately home. An impressive domed ceiling rises above the central…
Criterion
568 Dumbarton Road,
Glasgow,
G11 6RH
Based on the nearby café that closed in the 1970s, the Criterion recreates the spirit of those classic Italian bistros once so ubiquitous in Glasgow. This sister venue to neighbouring Velvet Elvis and Pintxo is full of art deco signage, wood panelling…
Curlers Rest
256–260 Byres Road,
Glasgow,
G12 8SH
Right in the heart of busy Byres Road, the Curlers Rest opened its doors in August 2010 after an extensive redesign and refurbishment erased all trace of previous student haunts. The clientele has shifted from those with little cash to those who are…
DRAM!
232–246 Woodlands Road,
Glasgow,
G3 6ND
The passing of Uisge Beatha is mourned by many, though such a decaying old drinking den stood little chance in the face of the steady tide of gentrification that has been sweeping the area’s bars for years. Following its purchase by Maclay Inns…
Driftwood
2–4 St Georges Road,
Glasgow,
G3 6UJ
Driftwood has been a fixture of Charing Cross for a few years now, offering cheap and cheerful food to hungry students and weary shoppers. The dining area is decked out in the 'traditional' Mexican terracotta and yellow, though it's actually barely…
Firebird
1321 Argyle Street,
Glasgow,
G3 8TL
This well-established neighbourhood bar and bistro makes sense whatever the occasion. The intelligent, free-flowing layout means you can dine more formally at the rear, sip a cool microbrewery pint perched at the curved wooden bar, or snack and watch…
Frankenstein Pub
92 West George Street, City Centre,
Glasgow,
G2 1PJ
Located in a former bank, this large city centre bar is decorated to look something like Dr Frankenstein's laboratory, complete with a 10-foot monster. Booths, clustered round the central bar area, come with their own plasma TVs. Dining is also…
The Glasgow Art Club
185 Bath Street,
Glasgow,
G2 4HU
Why not join one of the city’s most popular haunts for professionals, artists, musicians and students?
Become a regular in the fun, homely and relaxed atmosphere of the Glasgow Art Club, away from the bustling crowds of average Joes jostling for a…
The Goat & Grill
1287 Argyle Street,
Glasgow,
G3 8TL
Elegant and sophisticated, the Goat & Grill came under new ownership and was subtly rebranded in 2010. Set over two levels, the lower provides a spacious bar furnished with leather sofas and low-lying tables. Overhead, a mezzanine acts as the main…
The Granary
10–16 Kilmarnock Road,
Glasgow,
G41 3NH
The Granary has been bestriding the two main Shawlands arteries of Pollokshaws Road and Kilmarnock Road for 25 years. At lunchtime the main part of the pub is closed and you have to slip in via a side door. Failing to make a grand entrance, too, are…
The Grosvenor Café
The Grosvenor Theatre, Ashton Lane,
Glasgow,
G12 8SJ
With its filmic décor and location above the cinema, the recently rebranded Grosvenor Café offers a great opportunity for a movie and a meal night-out. The striking and cavernous venue, lit by spotlights adorning the walls, has silent movie clips…
Heavenly
185 Hope Street,
Glasgow,
G2 2UL
Glasgow’s vegetarian and vegan dining options are hardly extensive so a new arrival such as this City Centre café-bar is something of a godsend. Heavenly joins the city's small but established vegan/veggie scene, offering a similar philosophy of…
The Hermitage
177 Kirkintilloch Road, Bishopbriggs,
Glasgow,
G64 2LS
The G1 Group has been a major player in the development of Glasgow's city centre style bar scene. So this rather modest local is a departure from the norm for the empire, nestled as it is in Bishopbriggs (amid territory generally dominated by the JD…
Hillhead Bookclub
17 Vinicombe Street,
Glasgow,
G12 8BE
With a table tennis area, drinks served in gramophones, DJs playing eclectic funk and soul, and a menu littered with puns and witty comments, it is easy to see why Hillhead Bookclub has a burgeoning reputation as the best quirky hang-out in the West…
Home
80 Albion Street,
Glasgow,
G1 1NY
The decoration at this city centre hang-out is indeed a bit like home – if you happen to live somewhere that’s the ‘before’ part of a makeover. The furniture is a random mixture of leather booths (some with ripped seats), squashy sofas and gaudy…
The Horse Shoe Bar
17 Drury Street,
Glasgow,
G2 5AE
Pubs come and go, but the Horse Shoe endures - the literally horseshoe-shaped, longest continuous bar in Britain ensuring its fame, regardless of the gold and platinum discs donated by Travis, drummer Neil having once worked here. Halfway down a…
The Inn
2 Station Road, Bearsden,
Glasgow,
G61 4AN
Occupying an attractive former train station, this Maclay Inn pub is a popular spot for the locals in and around affluent Bearsden. The menu offers fairly standard pub favourites at reasonable prices, all reliably prepared and delivered by professional…
Ivory Bar & Restaurant
2–4 Camphill Avenue,
Glasgow,
G41 3AY
Situated adjacent to the greenery of Queens Park on a relatively quiet residential street, The Ivory Hotel looks like it could almost be the eatery and watering hole in a rural town. It feels like it inside too, with an informal atmosphere generated by…
Ivy
1102–1106 Argyle Street,
Glasgow,
G3 8TD
Located on the Finnieston strip, Ivy very much appeals to a 21st-century audience. The sets of the live DJs who play every weekend night can be downloaded from iTunes as podcasts and enjoyed at one’s leisure. This is just one example of the clever…
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
272a St Vincent Street,
Glasgow,
G2 5RL
Scotland
Read our Eating & Drinking Guide review of King Tut's.
Kudos Bar Restaurant
29 Waterloo Street,
Glasgow,
G2 6BZ
Situated in a prime spot close to Central Station and the financial district, Kudos is the ideal venue for office staff looking for a quick pit-stop at lunchtime. The bar’s express lunch menu, containing favourites such as battered haddock and macaroni…
The Lansdowne Bar & Kitchen
7a Lansdowne Crescent,
Glasgow,
G20 6NQ
This deceptively large basement bar kitchen on the leafy, residential Lansdowne Crescent off Great Western Road is a great all-rounder. Spacious and versatile with an abundance of TV screens, DJs at weekends and possibly the best draught beer selection…
The Left Bank
33–35 Gibson Street,
Glasgow,
G12 8NU
It is hard to categorise this bistro / bar, mainly because it is so successful in all its guises – as a lazy brunch hangout, for drinks by the window or a relaxed evening meal. The atmosphere is casual but the kitchen works hard, handling flavours…
Lismore Lounge
206 Dumbarton Road,
Glasgow,
G11 6AA
Scotland
Winner of the 2005 Scottish Licensed Trade Award for best whisky bar, the Lismore Lounge existed long before the resurgence of Partick Cross' bar culture, and will doubtless continue to do so long after it declines. Although it still attracts a strong…
