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Here's a tip for dining out in the recession: eat lunch in expensive restaurants. Counterintuitive, perhaps, but some of the best bargains to be had at the moment are in the most surprising places. Of course, lunch has... more from this review

Live music can be a hazard in restaurants, especially Middle Eastern ones. All you want to do is eat your tagine or moussaka, but then the musicians start up, signalling the arrival of gyrating belly dancers and... more from this review

I had to try Altura in Glasgow when I learned that its chef-proprieter, Mario Milano, specialises in dishes from his native Sardinia. If you have ever visited that beautiful island then it won’t have failed to make a... more from this review

Did you ever start eating a dish in a restaurant, only to find yourself wondering why on Earth you ordered it, knowing it was a bad choice that would leave you kicking yourself because, if you had stopped to think about... more from this review

On an early autumn Saturday evening, Glasgow's supremely elegant Merchant City is, as they say, hoaching. New bars and restaurants seem to be opening at a rate of knots and bring with them their attendant demographic of... more from this review

From beyond the grave, Charles Rennie Mackintosh continues to exert a magnetic draw. You could have knocked me down with a feather when I walked into the cafe in the House For An Art Lover on a Tuesday lunchtime at... more from this review

Friday night. Half seven. Glasgow. The city surges to the universal beer buzz as office workers throng bars to slake a week’s thirst by firing pay checks straight down their throats. Is it too late to miss the rush at... more from this review

Picture this. I'm telling Marco all about Olivia and Carlo's wedding, a tinfoil parcel on the table before me issuing steam and delicious fishy curry smells. I'm lifting half the haddock fillet inside it over to Marco's... more from this review

Not long ago I reviewed an American diner on this street. It shut down before we could even get it in the magazine. Gone for ever, before the photographer could even take a picture. And he was running. It was the... more from this review

Actually, they probably should have called this place The Curry Leaf. That’s what I can smell anyway. The pungent, delicious aroma of fresh curry leaves fills the air as the steaming bowl is brought to the table through... more from this review

There are no second chances for restaurants that don’t get off to a good start. Like doorstep salesmen, they have a very brief window of opportunity to sell themselves before the door slams in their faces, so the pitch... more from this review

Some restaurants open in a blaze of publicity while others quietly reinvent themselves, subtly changing their cultural identity in the process. The Italian fish and chip shop nearest to me is a case in point, having been... more from this review

The gentrification of our cafes continues apace. Once it was all greasy fry-ups, marshmallow teacakes and Cona coffee. Then we went through the whole Starbucks thing, temporarily enthralled by its coffee-flavoured... more from this review

Mitchells and Butlers, the chain that owns the All Bar One pub chain, recently reported that since the smoking ban came into force in Scotland, its pubs had seen drink sales drop by one per cent while its food sales have... more from this review

"Quick, Dad - weird," says Luca. "There's a man with a girl's thing on." Cal and I turn our heads to catch this amazing sight and realise it's just a waiter with an apron. Ah, the world as seen through the eyes of a six... more from this review

One of the most indelible dining experiences of my life was in a Rio de Janeiro churrascaria, an all-you-can-eat steakhouse in which innumerable waiters glided between tables wielding swords laden with barbecued meats. ... more from this review

The owners of the Hilton hotel chain seem convinced that there is still something worth wringing out of the 1960s steakhouse concept. Personally, I think that’s one cultural relic best left interred, and nothing I see... more from this review

I had made a mental note to check out the Menzies Glasgow Hotel because its very efficient publicists had sent me a press release telling me it had a new chef, Richard Lyth, who quite impressed me when he was at the City... more from this review

Consider this. An evening that begins with a pocketful of spanners and a dead Piaggio scooter in a tabloid editor’s back garden ends up in a hotel I used to work in and very nearly becomes a review. The only teensy... more from this review

On reflection, I can see why they would be unusually nervous about restaurant critics. At the time it just seems weird. I mean, there’s me and the kids squeezed into a booth at the back, eating sweetcorn with chilli... more from this review

Originally built in 1861 as a pub for Irish dockers, the once proletarian Buttery has long been regarded as one of Glasgow's top restaurant addresses. In that time it has seesawed from having expensive good food to... more from this review

In Spain, tapas are small appetisers that are served in bars to nibble with drinks before lunch and dinner. In Britain, tapas increasingly means a number of small dishes taken together to make a whole meal, in the spirit... more from this review

Seven thirty on a Friday evening at Cafe Gandolfi. It's the end of a hard week and we're looking to unwind, to treat ourselves in a reassuring, undemanding way. Doubtless the couple at the next table have the same idea,... more from this review

It seems we can’t, or won’t, make the time to eat lunch in a civilised manner like sensible Europeans. Instead, it’s off to Pret, Boots, M&S, or the petrol station forecourt for a chilly, plastic-packed sandwich... more from this review

I've been looking forward to two things since the beginning of the year: the next Amy Winehouse album - hmmm, could be some time yet - and the opening of Cafezique, the cafe-restaurant attached to Glasgow's inspiring... more from this review

When you meet some people for dinner, you just know the food will take a back seat. More interested in catching up with the few months that have passed and all the news that’s been missed, few other people can captivate... more from this review

The last time I wandered down that corridor and turned the corner, I was met by a bustling, hustling explosion of colour and noise: slashes of red and yellow, zebra masks hanging in the shadows and, through willowy stems... more from this review

In a 'restaurant with rooms' like Cathedral House, the wine list consists of only 12 reds and whites, of which ten are New World. Perhaps this paucity reflects the clientele; apart from us, a handful of American... more from this review

It’s lunchtime and Renfield Street is busy and a bit tacky. Amusement arcades, discount shops, rain falling relentlessly from fat, low clouds, soaking through my coat and deep into my shirt. A right turn, a push... more from this review