The Horse Shoe Bar is a bar in City Centre, Glasgow.
The Horse Shoe Bar is an 1884 Victorian gin palace off Buchanan Street in Glasgow, home to the UK's longest continuous bar and cheap pub lunches.
Editorially verified July 1, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Food program: Cheap pub lunches
Tip: The upstairs lounge does a famously cheap three-course lunch; the ground-floor island bar is the historic draw.
Address: 17-19 Drury Street, Glasgow G2 5AE
Sloans is Glasgow's oldest bar and restaurant, an 1797 room in the Argyll Arcade off Argyle Street, all mahogany, mirrors and a famous ceilidh upstairs.
Signature drink: Cask ale in the wood-panelled bar
Food: Pub classics and fish and chips
Tip: The Saturday-night ceilidh in the upstairs ballroom is a proper Glasgow night out; book if you want to dance.
Nice N Sleazy is a Sauchiehall Street dive bar and gig venue in Glasgow, a scruffy city-centre institution for cheap drinks, a jukebox and live bands.
Signature drink: Cheap house spirits and craft cans
Food: Bar food, meat and vegan
Tip: The upstairs bar serves food until 9pm; the downstairs venue opens at 7:30pm for gigs and club nights.
The Butterfly and the Pig is a quirky, vintage-styled bar on Bath Street in Glasgow, mixing cocktails, Scottish comfort food and live music six nights a week.
Signature drink: Retro cocktails and tea-time serves
Food: Scottish comfort food
Tip: The tearoom next door at number 151 does an old-fashioned afternoon tea; the bar downstairs is the night-time draw.
Sloans is Glasgow's oldest bar and restaurant, an 1797 room in the Argyll Arcade off Argyle Street, all mahogany, mirrors and a famous ceilidh upstairs.
Signature drink: Cask ale in the wood-panelled bar
Food: Pub classics and fish and chips
Tip: The Saturday-night ceilidh in the upstairs ballroom is a proper Glasgow night out; book if you want to dance.
Brel is a Belgian beer bar in a converted Ashton Lane mews in Glasgow's West End, pouring Trappist ales and mussels with one of the city's best beer gardens.
Signature drink: Belgian Trappist and abbey beer
Food: Moules-frites and Belgian dishes
Tip: The covered, heated beer garden means it works year-round; it is one of the few Ashton Lane spots with real outdoor space.
Inn Deep is a craft-beer bar in the railway arches beside the River Kelvin in Glasgow, pouring 33 taps and Sub Rosa pizza on a canalside West End terrace.
Signature drink: Rotating craft beer from 33 taps
Food: Sub Rosa pizza
Tip: On a warm day the riverside steps down to the Kelvin fill up fast; grab a pizza and a can and head outside.
Nice N Sleazy is a Sauchiehall Street dive bar and gig venue in Glasgow, a scruffy city-centre institution for cheap drinks, a jukebox and live bands.
Signature drink: Cheap house spirits and craft cans
Food: Bar food, meat and vegan
Tip: The upstairs bar serves food until 9pm; the downstairs venue opens at 7:30pm for gigs and club nights.
Brutti Compadres is a candlelit tapas and cocktail bar hidden in cobbled Virginia Court in Glasgow's Merchant City, set in the old tobacco exchange.
Signature drink: House cocktails and sherry
Food: Mediterranean small plates
Tip: It is tucked down a lane off Virginia Street and easy to miss; look for the courtyard entrance.
The Butterfly and the Pig is a quirky, vintage-styled bar on Bath Street in Glasgow, mixing cocktails, Scottish comfort food and live music six nights a week.
Signature drink: Retro cocktails and tea-time serves
Food: Scottish comfort food
Tip: The tearoom next door at number 151 does an old-fashioned afternoon tea; the bar downstairs is the night-time draw.
