Taste of Glasgow

  I last visited Carluccio’s when I was invited to the opening night in November last year. Due to its convenient location of being next to where I get my hair cut I have tried a few times to walk in for some post grooming brunch only to be turned away due to them being fully [...]

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A friend and I were looking to go out for a meal in town, somewhere with good food but at not a lot of cost.  So we did the usual and had a wee peak on 5pm to see what offers were around and we stumbled across this little restaurant called Scotalia in Hope Street [...]

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Having spent most of my Saturday shopping the time had flown quite effortlessly until my stomach finally started to moan about why it was 3 o’clock and I had not yet had any lunch.  Given that I knew there was no food in the flat I decided to  satisfy the tummy monster by paying a [...]

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I was meeting friends for lunch during the week, which meant finding somewhere close to work and not too pricey as it wasn’t quite pay day yet. So we decided on Arcaffe, a little Italian café just by Kelvingrove Park which offers a selection of breakfast, lunch and pre theatre choices. And although a small [...]

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It seems that high profile chefs tend to shy away from opening restaurants in Glasgow for fear there’s no market for fine dining, and that Glaswegians are geared towards value-based meals. Yet Jamie Oliver has set out to prove that sentiment wrong with affordable fresh quality Italian. The ‘Naked Chef’ snagged part of the ground [...]

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 Situated at the bottom of Byres Rd, Tony Macaroni specialises in authentic Italian cuisine, including a wide range of pizza and pasta dishes which are both of excellent quality and value.  Feeling slightly peckish I started with the Crostino con Funghi – lovely woody and earthy flavours from the wild mushrooms mellowed with a [...]

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