9 editor picks in Glasgow.
9 british gastropub places in Glasgow we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Glasgow | British Gastropub across every city.
Glasgow's pub tradition is long and specific: The Horse Shoe Bar, an 1884 Victorian gin palace off Buchanan Street, still has the UK's longest continuous bar, and The Pot Still pours from more than 1,000 whisky bottles on Hope Street. The gastro end lives out west, from Partick Duck Club's all-day bistro on Hyndland Street to The Kelbourne Saint's craft-beer neighbourhood room on Queen Margaret Drive and Inn Deep's 33 taps in the railway arches beside the River Kelvin. In Finnieston, The Ben Nevis keeps over 100 malts and folk sessions running, and University Cafe has fed Byres Road cheap fry-ups since 1918.
Partick Duck Club is an all-day bistro on Hyndland Street in Glasgow's West End, cooking brunch, duck and market plates from a snug Partick corner.
OrderThe duck, in whatever form the kitchen is running it that week.
TipIt keeps eight bar counter seats back for walk-ins, so try the counter if the tables are booked out.
The Pot Still is a fourth-generation whisky bar on Hope Street in Glasgow, pouring from more than 1,000 bottles under the eye of the Murphy family.
TipAsk the staff for a recommendation by flavour rather than name; they will find you a dram to suit and a pie to match.
The Kelbourne Saint is a neighbourhood bar on Queen Margaret Drive in Glasgow's West End, mixing craft beer, cocktails and a well-regarded pizza kitchen.
TipThe pizza kitchen is a genuine draw, not an afterthought, so come hungry as well as thirsty.
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.
TipTurn up for a midweek folk session; the bar works first-come-first-served rather than taking bookings.
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.
TipThe upstairs lounge does a famously cheap three-course lunch; the ground-floor island bar is the historic draw.
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.
TipOn a warm day the riverside steps down to the Kelvin fill up fast; grab a pizza and a can and head outside.
TipSit in one of the original wooden booths and finish with the double-cream ice cream made on-site.
University Cafe has fed Byres Road since 1918, a fourth-generation family cafe in Glasgow serving cheap fry-ups, fish and chips and its own ice cream.
OrderFish and chips, pie and beans, ice cream
TipIt is a proper old-school Italian-Scots cafe; save room for the double-cream ice cream at the end.
Partick Duck Club is an all-day bistro on Hyndland Street in Glasgow's West End, serving one of the Southside-of-the-river's best brunches from a snug corner.
OrderThe brunch menu before it rolls into the all-day bistro list.
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