SMART TRAVELLER
GLASGOW GREEN LIGHT
From hotels to restaurants, the Scottish city is abuzz with new openings as it hosts this month’s COP26 summit
Glaschu, the restaurant at The Western Club
LEFT: Kelvingrove Park and the University of Glasgow, in the city’s West End
OFF THE RAILS Do as the city’s
students do and embark on a ‘sub-crawl’, visiting bars close to all 15 stops on the underground rail network.
As attendees of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference hopefully won’t find out, it’s incredibly challenging to be green in certain parts of Glasgow. The city’s 130-year-long football rivalry between Celtic and Rangers means there are entire neighbourhoods where simply wearing anything green would be met with howls of derision. Thankfully, the city and its residents
are open to change in other areas. For the past couple of decades, Glasgow — whose Gaelic name, Glaschu, fittingly means ‘dear green place’ — has seen the development of restaurants and hotels, with neighbourhoods formerly best avoided evolving rapidly, thrillingly into something new. Nowhere is this more evident than
in FINNIESTON. The area has gone from better-to-take-a-taxi-through-it to one of Scotland’s most dynamic gourmet corners, and it continues to excite with new openings. The latest additions include the HIDDEN LANE ORGANIC BREWERY and shop, which has popped up in a former laundry off Argyle Street, and UNALOME BY GRAEME CHEEVERS, which has opened at the
unapologetically high end of the food scene.
hiddenlanebrewery.com
unalomebygc.com Cheevers may well be looking to emulate
the Michelin-starred success of CAIL BRUICH, on the other side of beautiful Kelvingrove Park. For 17 years, Glasgow may not have been in Michelin’s bad books, but it certainly wasn’t in any of its guidebooks, either. That changed in early 2021, when Cail Bruich’s clever take on modern Scottish cuisine was finally recognised.
cailbruich.co.uk The Covid-19 pandemic has, of course,
slowed Glasgow’s regeneration, but in certain areas, it’s provided an opportunity. In the MERCHANT CITY quarter, a series of bars and restaurants operating under the FESTIVAL VILLAGE umbrella was given a permanent al fresco home. Further east, BARRAS ART AND DESIGN — a collection of food, drink and entertainment spaces — is breathing new life into the century-old Barrowlands Market. At the back of Glasgow Green, with e-bike racks nearby, and a healthy presence of IPAs, street art, hipsters and all, it almost feels as though you could be Brooklyn.
facebook.com/ festivalvillagemerchantcity
baadglasgow.com
peoplemakeglasgow.com JAMIE LAFFERTY
NEW OPENINGS GLASCHU
The Western Club’s restaurant offers slick cocktails and snazzy interpretations of Scottish cuisine.
Its opening was one of several initially impeded by the spread of Covid-19.
glaschurestaurant.co.uk
LA CHAMBRE VERTE Kimpton Blythswood Square
has opened La Chambre Verte, combining forest bathing, CBD rituals, meditation and sound
therapy. From £579, B&B, including
massages and CBD bath experience.
kimptonblythswoodsquare.com
VOCO GRAND CENTRAL
Glasgow Central station’s onsite hotel has put its green credentials
front and centre, with bedding made from 100% recycled materials, glass
water bottles in guest rooms and water- saving showers. From £109.
grandcentral.vocohotels.com
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