With 100 whiskies and four quirky rooms to choose from, this unique pub is one of Glasgow’s best -- an antidote to style bars.
There’s something otherworldly about the very mannered style of the beaten silver panels, the long-backed chairs and the surface decorations echoing Celtic manuscript illuminations.
One of the city’s premier live-music pub venues, the excellent King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut hosts bands every night of the week. Oasis were signed after playing here.
Named to poke fun at Scotland’s perceived lack of finer cuisine, it offers a French touch but resolutely Scottish ingredients, carefully selected and following sustainable principles.
Excellent hour-long guided tours (roughly hourly summer; 11am and 3pm winter) run by architecture students are the only way (apart from enrolling) to visit the interior. Book by phone at busy times.
Mono is one of Glasgow’s best vegan eateries. Monorail is in the same premises, which means you can browse through an indie record shop while waiting for your food to be prepared.
There’s floor-to-ceiling velvet, with red curtains revealing a staircase to the tapas bar and restaurant above in a show of decadence that the Romans would have appreciated.
The most interesting part of the cathedral, the lower church, is reached by a stairway. Its forest of pillars creates a powerful atmosphere around St Mungo’s tomb.
Glasgow’s flea market, the Barras on Gallowgate, has almost a thousand stalls and people come here just for a wander as much as for shopping, which gives the place a holiday air.
