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Restaurants in Baillieston

• Ashoka Shak Coatbridge

  The first Ashoka Shak opened in 2001. Since then, the concept has been completely refined with a sassy new design which has been further complemented by the introduction of an innovative Indian Thali to bring you an authentic dining experience!

  Showcase Leisure Park, Baillieston, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

Restaurants in Bearsden

• Ashoka Bearsden

  The first Ashoka Shak opened in 2001 and since then, the concept has been completely refined with a sassy new design and with The Ashoka Shak coming to Bearsden on Kirk Road, to spice up the lives of the curry lovers of Bearsden.

  9 Kirk Road, Bearsden, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

Restaurants in City of Glasgow

• Alla Turca

  Alla Turca's nickname, 'The Turkish Melody', explains why this 'new-to-town' restaurant is 'very unique in Glasgow'. As one UK Restaurant Guide fan noted, the place scores with live music every night, plus the bonus of traditional Turkish dancing to go with the ethnic sounds at weekends.

  192 Pitt Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Turkish

• Brian Maule at Chardon d'Or

  Scottish-born Brian Maule gave up the heady world of Le Gavroche in London to open his own 'Golden Thistle' not far from Glasgow city centre.

  176 West Regent Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: French

• ABode Glasgow, BarMC & Grill

  Tucked away on the lower level of Abode Glasgow, MC Cafe Bar and Grill is a mellow modern take on all-day dining with a menu full of fast and filling favourites.

  129 Bath Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern European

• Amarone

  A sexy basement just off Buchanan Street and its retail therapy hordes, Amarone is a smart, sleek good-looker, with high-level stained glass windows, arty monochrome photos on the walls, staff in red-wine coloured uniforms and cool jazz playing in the background.

  2 Nelson Mandela Place, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Italian

• Amber Regent

  Andy Chung can lay claim to being the godfather of Chinese food in Glasgow, having set up the first Amber restaurant on Byres Road more than 20 years ago.

  50 West Regent Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Chinese

• An Lochan

  This lively bistro-style restaurant is a spin-off from the McKie family's high-flying hotel in Tighnabruaich by the Kyles of Bute, and it aims to bring simple seafood and more besides to Glasgow's city crowd.

  340 Crow Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• Arisaig Restaurant & Bar

  Inspired by childhood holidays to the West Coast village of Arisaig, this bar-cum-restaurant is a smartly presented venue in the heart of Glasgow city centre a few minutes' walk from the stations and George Square.

  140 St Vincent Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• Ashoka at the Mill

  Situated in a converted medieval farmhouse, Ashoka at the Mill is a lively, family-friendly restaurant in the southside area of Darnley in Glasgow.

  500 Corselet Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

• Ashoka at the Quay

  The first Ashoka Shak opened in 2001 and since then, the concept has been completely refined with a sassy new design and then The Ashoka Shak came to Springfield Quay to spice up the lives of the curry lovers of this part of Glasgow.

  Unit D2 The Quay, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

• Ashoka South Side

  A contemporary setting combined with dependable service and the classic dishes of Indian cuisine have made Ashoka South Side a firm favourite since the end of the 1980s.

  268 Clarkston Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

• Ashoka West End

  Situated by the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Ashoka West End sits on the corner of Argyle Street, the longest street and Clayslaps Road, shortest road in the city.

  1284 Argyle Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

• Babbity Bowster

  Named after a celebrated Scottish dance number much favoured by traditional pipers (a framed version of the printed tune is pinned up in the bar), Babbity Bowster has become something of a Glasgow institution since it opened in 1985.

  16-18 Blackfriars Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Gastro pub

• Café Mao

  The Scottish member of the Café Mao mini-chain has been doing its thing in the regenerated Merchant City for more than five years: its aim is to provide Glasgow with a shot of accessible fusion food combined with fashionable minimalist design.

  84 Brunswick Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Pan Asian

• Cail Bruich West

  Brothers Chris and Paul Charalambous are the brains behind this swanky venture in Glasgow's West End. Younger sibling to the original in Bridge of Weir, it follows a similar path by offering outstanding value and seasonal food in surroundings that are defined by designer photos and red leather seating.

  725 Great Western Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern European

• Camerons

  Towering above Glasgow city centre, the magnificent polished-granite and mirrored-glass Hilton has become something of a local landmark over the years.

  Hilton Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• City Café

  Home is where the heart is for the handsome City Cafe, set in Glasgow's thriving riverside district and the jewel in the crown of the stylish Mint Hotel.

  Mint Hotel, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern European

• City Merchant

  Established by the Matteo family in 1988 and extended in 1996, this reputable seafood restaurant occupies part of Glasgow's old Merchant City quarter, a short walk from George Square.

  97-99 Candleriggs, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Seafood

• Dakhin

  Glasgow's first genuine South Indian restaurant is located in the heart of the Merchant City. Inside, it looks the part, with a riot of 'hot' Far Eastern colours and artefacts combined with a cool ambience.

  1st Floor, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: South Indian

• Dragon-i

  According to The Observer, Dragon-i is 'the coolest thing to happen to Chinese cuisine north of the border' for a very long time.

  311-313 Hope Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Pan Asian

• Gamba

  A long-running haven for lovers of seafood, Gamba occupies a pleasingly relaxed, laid-back basement in the centre of the city.

  225a West George Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Seafood

• Ho Wong

  Behind its dark glass frontage, Ho Wong puts on a classy, sophisticated show with its rich, dark décor, plush carpets, beautiful pieces of carved furniture and vases of lilies and orchids.

  82 York Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Chinese

• Hotel du Vin at One Devonshire Gardens

  One of Glasgow's most auspicious addresses, One Devonshire Gardens has recently been given the Hotel du Vin treatment and is the group's first acquisition north of the border.

  1 Devonshire Gardens, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern European

• Kama Sutra

  'All will be revealed as you feast your senses over our candlelit cornucopia of exotic and evocative eastern cuisine'. So runs the blurb about this 'sumptuous' Indian on Sauchiehall Street.

  331 Sauchiehall Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

• Killermont Polo Club

  Housed in a converted manse in leafy grounds just off Maryhill Road, this is one of the most unusual Indian restaurants in Scotland.

  2002 Maryhill Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

• La Bonne Auberge

  Perfectly placed in the heart of Glasgow's fashionable theatreland on a corner site near the Theatre Royal Concert Hall, the modern Holiday Inn boasts a relaxed and flexible brasserie designed along French lines.

  Holiday Inn, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: French

• La Lanterna

  Set in a charismatic basement at the foot of Hope Street, La Lanterna is one of Glasgow's oldest family run Italian restaurants and, 40 years since it first opened its doors, it is still in the hands of the original owners.

  35 Hope Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Italian

• La Parmigiana

  Sandro Giovanazzi's long-serving and thoroughly dependable trattoria has been doing the citizens of Glasgow proud since opening in 1978. Many of his customers are fiercely loyal regulars and most are on first-name terms with the man himself.

  447 Great Western Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Italian

• La Vallée Blanche

  Taking its name from a pretty French mountain village, this Gallic neighbourhood restaurant is located up a flight of stairs just a stroll from Hillhead station.

  360 Byres Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: French

• Malmaison

  A converted Greek Orthodox church is the stunning setting for the Glasgow branch of the national Malmaison hotel group. Once a fashionable place of worship, it now boasts ornate wrought ironwork on the staircase and a spherical chandelier at the entrance.

  278 West George Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern European

• Manna

  After trading as Papingo for some 17 years, the owners of this Glasgow favourite (related to Gamba) renamed the restaurant Manna, although little else has changed.

  104 Bath Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• Marks Hotel, One Ten Bar & Grill

  A fashionable hotel on one of Glasgow's most popular shopping streets, Marks Hotel is a favourite with tourists and the city's retail therapy addicts.

  110 Bath Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: International

• Millennium Hotel Glasgow, The Brasserie on George Square

  At the very heart of Glasgow's social and cultural scene, this striking Victorian edifice has been impressively transformed into a superb luxury hotel with top-of-the-range facilities.

  40 George Square, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern European

• Mother India

  Devotees are eager to point out that Mother India serves some of the most original and authentic Indian food in Glasgow – which is quite a claim, given that the city is being widely touted as the new curry capital of the UK.

  28 Westminster Terrace, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

• Mussel Inn

  As its name suggests, this bustling, bistro-style venue is devoted to the joys of mouthwatering molluscs (and more besides). It's a pulsating venue right in the heart of Glasgow city centre, and it pulls in the crowds.

  157 Hope Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Seafood

• No. Sixteen

  After a visit to No Sixteen, just about everyone wishes that there was something similar at the end of their very own street.

  16 Byres Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern British

• Paperino's

  One of the best-known and best-loved pizza/pasta joints in Glasgow, Paperino's was opened nigh on 20 years ago by the Italian family behind the equally renowned La Parmigiana.

  283 Sauchiehall Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Italian

• Radisson SAS Glasgow, Collage Restaurant

  A real contemporary dazzler, the Radisson SAS Glasgow is a stunning angular building with all manner of innovative and modish architectural features - no wonder it scooped many design awards when it opened in 2002.

  301 Argyle Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: European

• Red Onion

  There aren't too many chefs who can boast that they have cooked for Tina Turner, Bryan Adams and the Bee Gees, but John Quigley did just that before deciding to get out of celeb-land and move back to his home patch in Glasgow.

  257 West Campbell Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• Ristorante Piccolo Mondo

  For style, quality and service, Piccolo Mondo is a perfect place to enjoy traditional and contemporary Italian specialities. Priding themselves on their hedonistic menus of superb choice and quality at genuine value for money prices, the restaurant offers a style full of 'flair and with an enthusiasm like no other'.

  344 Argyle Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Italian

• Rococo

  Rococo is a Glasgow restaurant on the up. Sit outside and sip cocktails in the gazebo, before progressing to the chic basement dining room with its intimate atmosphere, dark leather upholstered chairs and a veritable gallery of wall-mounted glass abstracts and modern artwork to catch the eye.

  48 West Regent Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern European

• Rogano

  Proclaiming itself as 'the oldest surviving restaurant in Glasgow', Rogano was fitted out some 75 years ago at a time when the great Cunard liner 'The Queen Mary' was being built on Clydeside.

  11 Exchange Place, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Seafood

• Shish Mahal

  Glasgow's original curry house opened in 1954 as the Taj Mahal, before changing its name (a reference to The Palace of Mirrors in Lahore) and undergoing a serious refit during the 1990s.

  Park Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

• St Jude's Hotel, Mama San

  Situated in an early Victorian townhouse in the heart of the city centre, this building has been cleverly converted into a high-tech modern establishment incorporating a hotel, basement bar/cocktail lounge and first-floor restaurant.

  190 Bath Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Pan Asian

• Stravaigin

  'Think global, eat local' is the mantra behind Colin Clydesdale's smart, eclectic venue, which is both cool and noisy by turns.

  28 Gibson Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Global

• Stravaigin 2

  The younger brother of Colin Clydesdale's ground-breaking Stravaigin in Gibson Street is hidden away down an alley off the Byres Road main drag.

  8 Ruthven Lane, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Global

• Thai Fountain

  Widely touted as 'first and foremost' among Glasgow's modest band of Thai restaurants, the Fountain has been doing good business in the city for more than a decade.

  2 Woodside Crescent, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Thai

• The Big Blue

  A stupendous venue for al fresco meals, complete with a much-sought-after balcony overlooking the river, the Big Blue is younger brother to the auspicious La Parmigiana next door.

  445 Great Western Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Italian

• The Corinthian

  Widely regarded as one of the finest Victorian interiors in the UK, the Corinthian boasts five levels of bars, a restaurant and celebration spaces all under one Glasgow roof.

  191 Ingram Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• The Dhabba

  Dhabbas are unpretentious roadside diners common across North India, and this stylish venue aims to bring an authentic taste of that region to Glasgow's Merchant City district.

  44 Candleriggs, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

• The Left Bank

  Don't expect much in the way of Rive Gauche Gallic trappings at this fashionable hangout on upwardly mobile Gibson Street.

  33-35 Gibson Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Eclectic

• The Restaurant Bar & Grill

  RBG's first foray north of the border is located in the beautifully restored and sophisticated Princes Square Shopping Centre at the heart of Glasgow's social hub.

  Princes Square Shopping Centre, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern European

• The Sisters Jordanhill

  Jacqueline and Pauline O'Donnell (the 'sisters') have become one of Glasgow's gastronomic star turns since opening their eponymous restaurant not far from Jordanhill station.

  1a Ashwood Gardens, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• The Sisters Kelvingrove

  Having scored a hit with their first restaurant in Jordanhill, the 'sisters' (Jacqueline and Pauline O'Donnell) spread their wings and opened a second venue on the site formerly occupied by Air Organic.

  36 Kelvingrove Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• Two Fat Ladies

  No relation to the leather-clad foodie ladies you may have seen on TV, this fascinating little place – a stone's throw from the Kelvingrove Art Gallery – takes its name from the bingo-speak of its address ('two fat ladies' – '88'!!).

  88 Dumbarton Road, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• Two Fat Ladies at The Buttery

  The team behind the Two Fat Ladies recently took over the Buttery on Argyle Street - one of Glasgow's most legendary gastronomic addresses.

  652-654 Argyle Street, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• Ubiquitous Chip

  A bastion of the Glasgow restaurant scene for more than three decades, the Chip just keeps on rolling. Owner Ronnie Clydesdale who sadly died in April 2010 was a champion of Scottish produce and did much over the years to put it right back on the gastronomic map.

  12 Ashton Lane, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

• Urban Bar & Brasserie

  Following on from the success of Gamba and other ventures, Alan Tompkins and executive chef Derek Marshall are making their mark in new city-centre premises that were once home to the Bank of England's Scottish HQ (the manager's office is now a swish private dining room).

  23-25 St Vincent Place, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern European

• Windows Restaurant

  Glasgow's only rooftop restaurant sits high up on the seventh floor of the luxurious Carlton George Hotel and offers unrivalled panoramic vistas of the cityscapes all around.

  Carlton George Hotel, City of Glasgow, Glasgow - Cuisine: Modern Scottish

Restaurants in Hillhead

• Ashoka Ashton Lane

  The first Ashoka Shak opened in 2001 and since then, the concept has been completely refined with a sassy new design and then The Ashoka Shak came to Hillhead on Ashton Lane, to spice up the lives of the curry lovers of Hillhead.

  19 Ashton Lane, Hillhead, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian

Restaurants in Kirkintilloch

• Ashoka Brasserie

  After a devastating fire and 15 months' closure, this out-of-town branch of the Glasgow-based Ashoka chain is now back in business with a brand new look.

  93 - 99 Cowgate, Kirkintilloch, Glasgow - Cuisine: Indian