I'm in Glasgow for a couple of days. What should I do, where should I drink and eat?
A 16 inch Tandoori Munchy Box.
perchypanther - MemberA 16 inch Tandoori Munchy Box.
This^ then visit Crabb Shack
Drinking
I'm currently liking:
Howlin' Wolf: https://thehowlinwolf.co.uk/
Shilling Brew Co: http://www.shillingbrewingcompany.co.uk/
The Lab: http://www.navantaverns.com/lab/
Sloans: https://www.sloansglasgow.com/
MacSorleys: https://mac-sorleys.com/
Tabac: http://tabacbar.com/
For Food:
Topolabamba: http://www.topolabamba.com/
Paesano: http://paesanopizza.co.uk/
Halloumi: http://www.halloumiglasgow.co.uk/
Crabshakk: http://www.crabshakk.com/
The Spanish Butcher: http://www.spanishbutcher.com/
People's Palace (sort of potted history of Glasgow), is always good for a laugh. Wife and I enjoyed wandering through the West End's Botanic Gardens the other week as well. If you do come down to the West End (wave at me, I'm in the top floor lab of the GBRC), you could wander up to the Hunterian museum, then back down the hill for a pint in Tennents. I enjoyed the mixed grill there so much last Friday, I'm going back for another one tomorrow lunchtime, and that's got nothing to do with the fact I'm staring longingly at their front door from my office window as I type.
Kelvin Grove museum? It's got some cracking stuff in it. If you go down Ruthven Street, just off Byres road, there's a brilliant wee flea market with an excellent comic book store (someone told me), and one of the best 2nd hand vinyl shops in Glasgow.
If you wander along Argyll Street towards the Barrowlands, there's a brilliant wee sunken garden. It used to be a bunch of shops with another flea market hidden behind them, but now it has this wonderful path running through it, covered in the names and dates of bands that have played at the Barras'. I'd really rate that as worthy of a look!
Glasgow is brilliant for live music , worth having a look at the listings and seeing if there is anything that grabs you . The stand comedy club is a great night out and nicely situated between the west end and city centre for pre/post food drinks .
I'm a bit out the loop now post kids and all but the burgers in lebowskis are outstanding and Where the monkey sleeps is my favourite cafe . Ox and finch is ment to be excellent but I think you need to book especially at weekends.
Blue lagoon if you've had a skin full
I spent the whole time I was in Glasgow wishing I'd gone to Edinburgh instead.
It's been a few years, but I enjoyed the Kelvin grove museum and the transport museum was really interesting.
Was in Glagow Tuesday for a gig. 1st time I'd been back in over thirty years. Left thinking it's still a shit-hole. Wish this thread had started a few days earlier, at least I might have had something decent to eat.
Anyone who can't even find decent food in Glasgow is obviously beyond help.
ste_t - Member
I spent the whole time I was in Glasgow wishing I'd gone to Edinburgh instead
Why? Edinburgh is for when you’re tried of life.
It's brilliant for live music, curry and getting mugged. Anything else, you're better looking elsewhere.
Should have asked a local. Plenty Weegies kipping down in doorways.
igm - MemberWhy? Edinburgh is for when you’re tried of life.
Because in Glasgow, nobody lives long enough to get tired of life
Both are excellent cities, loads to do.
Using the homeless to pointscore is extreme bawbaggery.
Thanks.
On the other hand it seems my murder and heart disease pointscoring is OK
Probably because it lacked the sneering quality of onlysteels.
It was mugging, we hadn't really got to the murderyness as yet...
aawww the Edinburgh snowflakes are on form tonight x