Quality coffee and home-made style food in the heart of Glasgow's east end.
Despite being a Korean restaurant the Japanese sushi platters are freshly made and really nice. Plenty of tasty asian food to choose from and a decent selection of beers.
Recently opened branch of the famous US grocery shop, located in the upmarket Glasgow suburb of Shawlands. Essential fixture for those concerned about their health.
With 100 whiskies and four quirky rooms to choose from, this unique pub is one of Glasgow’s best -- an antidote to style bars.
Named to poke fun at Scotland’s perceived lack of finer cuisine, it offers a French touch but resolutely Scottish ingredients, carefully selected and following sustainable principles.
Excellent hour-long guided tours (roughly hourly summer; 11am and 3pm winter) run by architecture students are the only way (apart from enrolling) to visit the interior. Book by phone at busy times.
There’s floor-to-ceiling velvet, with red curtains revealing a staircase to the tapas bar and restaurant above in a show of decadence that the Romans would have appreciated.
Glasgow’s flea market, the Barras on Gallowgate, has almost a thousand stalls and people come here just for a wander as much as for shopping, which gives the place a holiday air.
