The city's headline food strip. A run of Argyle Street tenements packed with seafood counters, small-plates rooms and gin bars.
Ox and Finch put Finnieston on Glasgow's food map, a buzzy Sauchiehall Street room of ever-changing small plates built for sharing across the table.
Signature: Pressed lamb shoulder, Twice-baked cheese souffle
Order: Order five or six plates between two; the pressed lamb shoulder is the long-running favourite.
Tip: Walk-in seats at the open kitchen counter turn over faster than the booked tables on a busy night.
Crabshakk is the tiny Finnieston seafood bar that sparked Glasgow's Argyle Street boom, a marble counter of langoustine, oysters and fried haddock.
Signature: Langoustine, Fried haddock and chips
Order: A plate of langoustine with garlic butter and a glass of the house white.
Tip: The upstairs mezzanine and the counter both take walk-ins, so try your luck if the booking diary looks full.
Gloriosa is Rosie Healey's bright Argyle Street room in Glasgow, cooking wood-fired, vegetable-led Mediterranean plates and one of the city's best wine lists.
Signature: Wood-fired flatbreads, Whole roast fish
Order: Whatever is coming off the wood fire, plus a glass from the low-intervention wine list.
Tip: Healey founded the much-missed Alchemilla, and this is where her cooking now lives; book the counter for the fire view.
The Finnieston is a snug former drovers' tavern on Argyle Street, Glasgow, pairing sustainable Scottish seafood with more than 60 gins in a candlelit room.
Signature: Grilled langoustine, Beer-battered fish
Order: A gin and tonic from the long list, then whatever shellfish is freshest that day.
Tip: It is as much a gin bar as a restaurant, so come early for a drink before the kitchen gets busy.
Unalome by Graeme Cheevers is Glasgow's other Michelin star, a polished Finnieston dining room where Cheevers plates precise modern European tasting menus.
Order: The signature tasting menu; the seafood courses show off Cheevers' Japanese-influenced precision.
Tip: Lunch service is easier to book than dinner and runs the same kitchen for a lower spend.
Two Fat Ladies at The Buttery is Glasgow's oldest restaurant, an 1870 Argyle Street room panelled in dark wood and built around Scottish seafood and game.
Order: Whatever landed that day from the fish board, plus the pre-theatre menu if you are heading to a show.
Tip: The dark Victorian rooms make this a special-occasion booking; ask for a table in the original panelled front room.
The Butchershop Bar and Grill faces Kelvingrove on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, a dry-aged steakhouse built on native Scottish beef and a long whisky list.
Order: A shared dry-aged Chateaubriand with bone marrow and triple-cooked chips.
Tip: Ask which cuts have been aged longest that week; the board changes and the older beef is the reason to come.
Eleven Fifty Five is the Finnieston bistro that replaced The Gannet at 1155 Argyle Street, Glasgow, cooking seasonal Scottish plates with global accents.
Order: The market-led daily specials board, which follows whatever the kitchen sourced that morning.
Tip: This is the reworked Gannet site under a new name, so ignore old Gannet listings and book direct.
Baffo is a Neapolitan pizzeria at the west end of Argyle Street in Glasgow, near Kelvingrove, serving long-proved sourdough pizza and Italian craft beer.
Order: A pizza off the specials board and a bottle of Italian birra.
Tip: It sits just past the main Finnieston strip, so it is often quieter than the Argyle Street pizzerias closer to town.
Mister Singh's India is an Elderslie Street institution in Glasgow, an Indian kitchen famous for haggis pakora and kilt-wearing staff since the 1990s.
Order: The haggis pakora, a Glasgow-Scots-Indian mash-up the restaurant helped make famous.
Tip: The Scottish-Indian theme is played for fun; it is a reliable, generous curry house near Charing Cross.
Piece is a speciality sandwich shop on Argyle Street in Glasgow's Finnieston, building overstuffed sandwiches to order alongside proper coffee since 2008.
Signature drink: Coffee to go
Tip: This is a lunch-run counter more than a sit-in cafe; the piled-high sandwiches are the whole point.
The Steamie is a coffee roaster and neighbourhood cafe on Argyle Street in Glasgow's Finnieston, a laid-back spot for filter coffee and cake.
Signature drink: House-roasted filter coffee
Tip: It roasts its own beans, so ask what is on filter that day and buy a bag on the way out.
Gloriosa pairs Rosie Healey's wood-fired Mediterranean cooking with one of Glasgow's best low-intervention wine lists on Argyle Street in Finnieston.
Signature pour: A biodynamic bottle from the growers' list
Wine focus: Low-intervention and biodynamic wine
Food: Wood-fired Mediterranean plates
Tip: Sit at the counter and ask the team to match glasses to whatever is coming off the wood fire.
The Ben Nevis is a snug whisky and folk-music bar on Argyle Street in Glasgow's Finnieston, with over 100 malts and traditional sessions most weeks.
Signature drink: Malt whisky from over 100 bottles
Food: Bar snacks
Tip: Turn up for a midweek folk session; the bar works first-come-first-served rather than taking bookings.
Kelvingrove Cafe is a dark, seasonal cocktail bar on Argyle Street in Glasgow's Finnieston, reviving lost drinks in the old cafe's original room.
Signature drink: Seasonal cocktail menu
Food: Small plates
Tip: The cocktail list changes with the seasons; ask the bartenders what is new before defaulting to a classic.
El Perro Negro is a multi-award-winning burger joint on Argyle Street in Glasgow's Finnieston, fusing American and Korean flavours into dirty, messy patties.
Try: American-Korean smashed burgers
Tip: The Top Dog is the signature; it started as a market stall before landing this permanent Argyle Street site.
Dockyard Social is a warehouse street-food market on Haugh Road in Glasgow, hosting ten rotating traders every weekend near the Finnieston strip.
Try: Ten rotating street-food traders
Tip: Traders stop serving around 21:30 even when the bar runs later, so arrive hungry rather than late.
Dockyard Social is a warehouse street-food market on Haugh Road in Glasgow, hosting ten rotating traders every weekend near the Finnieston strip.
Tip: Traders stop serving around 21:30 even when the bar runs later, so arrive hungry rather than late.