Guidebook for Glasgow
Food Scene
It is across the road and very popular - with good reason. It serves good food with charm.
25 locals recommend
The Hyndland Fox
43 Clarence Dr It is across the road and very popular - with good reason. It serves good food with charm.
The Hyndland Cafe
96 Clarence DrIt is almost next door and it cooks real food.
The Bothy Restaurant - for my money - a better bet even that the more famous Ubiquitous Chip - which is in Ashton Lane just across Byres Road
15 locals recommend
Ruthven Lane
Ruthven LaneThe Bothy Restaurant - for my money - a better bet even that the more famous Ubiquitous Chip - which is in Ashton Lane just across Byres Road
Really still best known by its former name - this is One Devonshire Gardens - Glasgow's best hotel with a restaurant to match.
10 locals recommend
Hotel du Vin Glasgow
1 Devonshire GardensReally still best known by its former name - this is One Devonshire Gardens - Glasgow's best hotel with a restaurant to match.
Wee LOCHAN
340 Crow RdSophisticated Scottish food.
Drinks & Nightlife
It is a bistro with a sunny spot to sit in and the staff are happy to serve drinks if you don't feel like eating.
21 locals recommend
Delizique
Hyndland StreetIt is a bistro with a sunny spot to sit in and the staff are happy to serve drinks if you don't feel like eating.
Bars, restaurants, night life, quirky shops, galleries - this is the spine of Glasgow's west end. Too busy to live beside but great to have at a distance of a ten minute walk.
143 locals recommend
Byres Road
Byres RoadBars, restaurants, night life, quirky shops, galleries - this is the spine of Glasgow's west end. Too busy to live beside but great to have at a distance of a ten minute walk.
Bars, restaurants, a theatre, gig venue and night club - all in one big old former church building. At lunch time you can get a play, a pie and a pint for about £12.
198 locals recommend
Oran Mor
Byres RoadBars, restaurants, a theatre, gig venue and night club - all in one big old former church building. At lunch time you can get a play, a pie and a pint for about £12.
The Ubiquitous Chip, Brel and about 20 other bars and restaurants in 300 meters of candle lit, cobbled backstreet
224 locals recommend
Ashton Lane
Ashton LaneThe Ubiquitous Chip, Brel and about 20 other bars and restaurants in 300 meters of candle lit, cobbled backstreet
Sightseeing
If you are not studying or working there, go and look at the Gothic building, visit the exhibitions and walk through the park.
266 locals recommend
University of Glasgow
89 Dumbarton RdIf you are not studying or working there, go and look at the Gothic building, visit the exhibitions and walk through the park.
A clever botanical collection that you can study or just stroll through then continue your walk along the River Kelvin that flows through it.
432 locals recommend
Glasgow Botanic Gardens
730 Great Western RdA clever botanical collection that you can study or just stroll through then continue your walk along the River Kelvin that flows through it.
Glasgow Tenement B&B is a rather posh tenement flat. See a more typical example as it would have been equipped for its first occupants.
60 locals recommend
The Tenement House
145 Buccleuch StGlasgow Tenement B&B is a rather posh tenement flat. See a more typical example as it would have been equipped for its first occupants.
Charles Rennie MacKintosh's design and The Glasgow Miracle. If you don't know what that is, take a tour.
100 locals recommend
The Glasgow School of Art
167 Renfrew StCharles Rennie MacKintosh's design and The Glasgow Miracle. If you don't know what that is, take a tour.
Riverside Museum
100 Pointhouse Rdour transport museum
art and artefacts and apparently Glasgow's biggest visitor attraction.
841 locals recommend
The Glasgow Art Club
185 Bath Start and artefacts and apparently Glasgow's biggest visitor attraction.
Glasgow
Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Glasgow flat interiors.
this old sailing ship is elegant and quite something to think about
31 locals recommend
The Tall Ship at Riverside
150 Stobcross Rdthis old sailing ship is elegant and quite something to think about
Arts & Culture
Grosvenor
24 Ashton LnA stylish independent cinema on Ashton Lane.
I have hosted several guests who were working at the BBC and they tell me the location is perfect for it and related business services.
22 locals recommend
BBC Scotland
40 Pacific QuayI have hosted several guests who were working at the BBC and they tell me the location is perfect for it and related business services.
music venue on the inside - enormous coloured flying saucer on the outside
141 locals recommend
SEC Centre
music venue on the inside - enormous coloured flying saucer on the outside
Shopping
Buchanan Street
Buchanan StreetGlasgow's premier shopping street