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Management and me are heading to Glasgow next week for a few days. Staying in the city centre - near Central Station.
I'm looking for recommendations for decent bars and eateries. We like old style pubs and unpretentious cafes/restaurants.
Anywhere from High St to Byers Road would be close enough.
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Old style pub with great food and drink: http://www.macsorleys.com/
One of my favourites: http://www.sloansglasgow.com/
Good beers here: http://www.navantaverns.com/lab/index.html
All within a couple of minutes of central station
Brewdog bar at Kelvingrove? Good beers and also had good tunes when I was last there.
Lauders is a cracking old style pub, unpretentious and in a fantastic setting.
If you take a wander down The Salt Market, there's a lovely wee pub called The Tolbooth.
Oh yes, love Glasgow. This may count as pretentious - but [url= http://www.thebutterflyandthepig.com/ ]The Butterfly & The Pig[/url] do some great cake and high tea upstairs (seems to be a Glasgow institution) and live music is normal pub setting downstairs. Also recommend jumping on the circular Metro up to Ashton Lane.
Butterfly and the Pig also do Ketchup burgers, which are awesome.
Hate the place as a pub though, smells funny and serves awful beer. More of a typical town bar, with a pub name.
Horseshoe Bar? tucked away near Central / Queen Street - can't recall actual name (and years since I'v been drinking in Glasgow...)
Butterfly and the Pig also do Ketchup burgers, which are awesome.
Nah, it's Hummingbird across the road that has the Ketchup burgers. It's part of the G1 group.
+1 for The Butterfly & Pig. The Easy Orchestra on a Friday night are superb entertainment.
Indeed!
Be sure to visit Baird's and also the Louden Tavern for some local colour. Preferably on the same evening.
Horseshoe Bar? tucked away near Central / Queen Street - can't recall actual name (and years since I'v been drinking in Glasgow...)
It's called the horseshoe bar,, and there is a not bad gentlemans club right across the street,.
City centre is full of the same old same old pubs to be honest, head to the merchant city for some nice places, the old fruit market or even up to Byres Road where there are a great selection of bars and clubs. Unfortunately Cleopatras is no more,, it's now the Viper and doesn't have Nurses night anymore either
It's a few years since, but when I stayed in Glasgow Rab Ha's was my local - small, decent beer and and good scoff. But it may have gone a bit sniffy
bigG - nae mare Clarty Pats? Gutted I am.