Glasgow’s best restaurants and bars serving up exclusive meals and drinks this spring
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The new campaign Made in Glasgow is marking April with ‘Scottish Spring Superstars’, with exclusive treats across the city on a food and drink trail.
Venues taking part in the initiative include newly added Crabshakk, Moskito, Julie Lin’s Gaga, Platform, Park Lane Market, Ubiquitous Chip, and modern Scottish pub, The Gate.
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Hide AdHeralding Scottish ingredients, UK’s current Best Burger winner, El Perro Negro, started developing their in house buns for their award-winning burgers during lockdown after supply troubles.
Nick Watkins, from El Perro Negro, said: “For us, the two big fundamentals in doing a great burger is to have great beef and a great bun.
“During lockdown we started developing an in house bun, after a bit of trial and error we settled on a hybrid brioche / Japanese milk bun.


“It looks great, provides just enough richness and holds up to all those meat juices and sauces no problem, and in our view, it’s the perfect bun.
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Hide Ad“It's what sets us apart from the rest and I think it paid a big part in us winning the national burger awards for a second time (the only ones to ever do it).”
Local dairy farms provide the eggs and milk for the in-house bun recipe. You can find them serving up exclusive specials as part of the Made In Glasgow trail this month.
Meanwhile over in the East End, Celentano’s has combined their passion for Italian food, Asian seasoning and Scottish sustainable produce to create a Scottish linguine dish exclusively for the trail.
Featuring surf clams and cod cheeks sourced from small Scottish fish supplier David Lowrie, based in Fife, along with wild garlic foraged by their chefs around different areas of Glasgow.
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Hide AdLooking for spring drinks? Then head on over to Moskito for a rhubarb and citrus-infused margarita with Scottish rhubarb, Patron Silver and Martini Fiero. Or join Fore Play Crazy Golf, who take their garnish game almost as serious as their golf. Enjoy their Hole in Wham! sour topped with a Scottish Wham Bar for a nostalgic treat.
If you head west, The Gannet is celebrating their incredible supplier Pellham Farm with an organic mutton tea and toast dish this spring. Mutton shoulder is slowly cooked and rolled, with lamb sweetbreads in foaming butter before being glazed. It’s served with a mustard & onion seed lamb fat focaccia with air-dried mutton.
You can support local this spring by planning your own food and drink trail using the #MadeInGlasgow maps. Simply head to @experienceglasgow and download your trail.
Each participating business has created a special Scottish dish and/or signature drinks for the campaign.
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Hide AdFunded by Experience Glasgow Food and Drink - the city’s regional food and drink group via the VisitScotland Destination & Sector Fund, the collaborative initiative has been designed specifically to champion inspirational Glasgow food and drink heroes, encourage bookings, drive consumer confidence and tourism.
Plan your food and drink trail. Follow @experienceglasgow, download maps, and share pictures from your visit along the trail using the hashtag #MadeinGlasgow on social media.
Participating Businesses:
63rd & 1st - 16 Bothwell St
Acid Bar by Zique's - 100 Eastvale Pl
Alston Bar + Beef - Unit 19, Central Station, 79 Gordon St
Amarone - 2 Nelson Mandela Pl
Anchor Line - 12–16 St Vincent Pl
Atlantic - 12-16 St Vincent Pl
Bar Brett - 321 Great Western Rd
Bare Bones Chocolate - 45 Polnoon St, Eaglesham
Barolo - 92-94 Mitchell St
Bowlarama - 22 Glassford St
Brunch Club - 67 Old Dumbarton Rd
Café Andaluz - 12-15 St Vincent Pl
Celentanos - 28-32 Cathedral Square
Clydeside Distillery - 100 Stobcross Rd
Crabshakk - 1114 Argyle St, Finnieston
Cranside Kitchen - 28 Tunnel St
Dear Green - Unit 2, 13-27 E Campbell St
Dimaggios - 21 Royal Exchange Square
Eighty eight - 88 Dumbarton Road, Partick
El Perro Negro - 152 Woodlands Rd
Eusebi Deli & Restaurant - 152 Park Rd
Fore Play Crazy Golf - 124 Portman St, Kinning Park
Gaga - 566 Dumbarton Rd, Partick
Gamba - 225A W George St
Grain and Grind - 742 Pollokshaws Rd
Halloumi South - 697 Pollokshaws Rd
Hanoi Bike Club - 8 Ruthven Ln
Hidden Lane Brewery - The Hidden Ln, Finnieston
Hooligans - 1 Lynedoch St, UPSTAIRS
Julie's Kopitiam - 1109 Pollokshaws Rd, Shawlands
Kilmurry - 210 Kilmarnock Rd, Shawlands
Kong - 23 Royal Exchange Square
Lebowskis - 1008 Argyle St, Finnieston
Liquid Oats
Mharsana - 26 Bell St
Moskito - 196-200, Bath St
Panther Milk
Park Lane Market - 974 Pollokshaws Rd, Shawlands
Piper's Tryst - 30-34 McPhater St
Platform - 253 Argyle St
Porter & Rye - 1131 Argyle St, Finnieston
Raddison Red Sky Bar - 25 Tunnel St, Finnieston Quay
Red Onion - 257 W Campbell St
Roberta's - 140 St Vincent St
Sips & Baker - 521 Great Western Rd
Sprigg - 241 Ingram St
Stravaigin - 28 Gibson St
Swadish - 33 Ingram St
SWG3 - 100 Eastvale Pl, Stobcross Rd
The Citizen - 24 St Vincent Pl
The Finnieston - 1125 Argyle St, Finnieston
The Gannet - 1155 Argyle St, Finnieston
The Gate - 251 Gallowgate
The Parlour - 28 Vinicombe St
The Square - 5 Bell St
The Square Bar + Rest - 6 Norby Rd
Tiki - 214 Bath St
Ubiquitous Chip - 12 Ashton Ln, Hillhead
Van Winkle - 267 Gallowgate
Vega - Westergate, 260 Argyle St
Vodka Wodka - 31 Ashton Ln, Hillhead
Yiamas - 16-20 Bath St
Ziques - 66 Hyndland St, Partick
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