Stravaigin in Glasgow City

A beautiful sunny afternoon for a few pints and what a treat to see haggis on the menu!! Waited 60yrs to try this and what an incredible treat here. Don’t get the small and leave disappointed. Go for the full size or go home!! It is absolutely delicious.

We got caught in the rain during our visit of the Glasgow university buildings, and just picked a spot that was nearby. It turned out to be a very positive surprise as we came along this lovely Scottish restaurant. It was a bit crowded but luckily we got a table and enjoyed some amazing dishes and drinks. It is a bit more on the pricy side, however you get amazing dishes for your money and very attentive service.

Our dinner was exceptionally good and exceeded our expectations. The service was uncomplicated, very friendly and fast. We would love to come back and recommend this restaurant to anyone who values good food and a relaxed atmosphere.

Always love to visit Stravaigin, whether it's for a few drinks or a meal . The staff are always welcoming ,the food is so tasty and love the laid back vibe. Would definitely recommend a visit

We ordered cod and beef burger dishes, both were very delicious, and you can appreciate the care and attention to the cooking.

Had an amazing time there last night! Went there to try haggis and it was delicious. The staff were so incredibly friendly and accomodating. Very nice atmosphere would highly recommend!

Beautiful food, really fancy but in a relaxed environment. We really enjoyed our dinner here as a family.

Lovely staff, lovely place and lovely gluten free options!

Nice restaurant in the city of Glasgow, with a very good atmosphere, cordial and friendly service. They gave us a table despite not having reserved, on the condition that we finish our dinner before 7 p.m. We thought it was great. Food very well prepared and tasty. The wine list is excellent. Highly recommended! Make a reservation!

Mother's day lunch, the best roast I've had, utterly delicious, the best cauliflower n broccoli cheese ever, will be back, 😁

Great small plates: creative tastes and combinations. Nice laid back pace and space. Good service.

11 people for a Sunday lunch, great food and service

Lovely evening, great environment

I ate here with my parents 20 years after the last occasion (when I was a university undergraduate). Very delicious, well prepared Scottish dishes. Well trained staff. The restaurant has a pleasant ambiance. We were not disappointed. I hope to return again!

First time here and we will be back. Food was outstanding, service brilliant and lovely atmosphere. Good value, had a few drinks each and cocktails.

Loved our experience in Stravaigan. Food, service and atmosphere all great. Very friendly serving staff.

Amazing atmosphere, service and food

Great food and lovely atmosphere. Thanks for a great evening.

Stravaigin is a beautiful gaelic word and means to wander without purpose. This easy-vibe bar & restaurant feels different to anywhere we've visited so far this year. It's definitely unpretentious, relaxed and attentive service feels natural and honest. It is a cool local hangout, well away from the centre of town (in the west end). The food is fabulous and they use local Scottish ingredients as well as those from further afield to achieve a great combination. You can just enjoy the bar where local friends sit on bar stools chatting about their day. Or you can dine in the shabby-chique pub with it's stripped down paintwork, raw ceilings and sanded back floors. I enjoyed a bloody Mary cocktail (with a perfect amount of heat because the bar girl asked how I enjoy my drink, "8/10 I declared "). I also ordered olives and nuts and both were more than ordinary. For main course the steak 🥩 was off the scale and the accompanying hash brown was a revelation. After a short intermission/ pause, while I chatted to locals on the adjacent table, I ordered a chocolate dessert from heaven and finished that off with a glass of dessert wine. This is a place where can easily feel at home. It's not like most restaurants recognised by the Michelin guide, basically it's a suburban pub with gastro food and it packs a huge punch. It's a perfectly simple combination, yet the food & service is slick and accomplished.

Unusually for Stravaigin and unfortunately our experience was below what we’ve come to expect. This is one of our “go to” places whenever we visit Glasgow so it’s a little disappointing when it falls below standard. We had some sourdough bread with skordalia which was delicious. My wife had Jamaican chicken curry which was also delicious. I chose venison and was told that they served it medium rare. I’m used to restaurants typically under cooking meats, so asked if they’d make mine medium. Yes they could but it would make it “more of a chew.” When it arrived it looked rare, rather than medium rare or medium and it was a real challenge to chew through. When asked by the waiting staff if everything was okay, I got a bizarre explanation that even when it’s cooked beyond the point of being rare, it doesn’t really take on a different appearance. I didn’t wish to be awkward, so just left it there. It seemed obvious that they didn’t take responsibility for the dish and so I chewed through what was possible and left the rest feeling a little dissatisfied. Still charged full price and a 10% service charge on top. So it was unusually disappointing but we’ll give them another opportunity next time we visit.

Lovely food in cool surroundings. We had a few dishes and really enjoyed the duck dish and their own chips! Sublime!

Had an amazing dinner here, could not highly recommend this place if U are looking for good food. Will definitely be back 😄

I have known about this place forever but have only tried it today. The service was great and the food was fantastic! Food ordered: Venison Rump Steak with Bone Marrow Smoked haddock Risotto Dark Choc and Orange cake Everything was absolutely amazing and i really cant wait to go again! Can't tell you enough how great it was, you really need to go and visit. Absolutely recommend!

Amazing food, fantastic service, I will definitely be back. Very accommodating of my dietary restrictions.

Amazing staff, greeted by Olivia who I haven't seen for months what a lovely bar she runs, lovely clientele and atmosphere xx

Excellent food The best gluten free bread I’ve had in a long time in a restaurant Many GF options. Much appreciated Staff very friendly

Lovely meal and great welcome for our dog 🐕

Fabulous as always . Great fun staff too xx

Absolutely amazing once again, great place for us with our dogs. Thank you all

One of my most favourite places to eat. Always amazing food, service is great and lovely staff. I’ve been many times and will never stop coming back to Stravaigin

Staff were great. Starters and main courses were delicious. Affogato for dessert was a bit disappointing...ice-cream and presentation let it down.

We had the most amazing Dinner for Valentine’s Day. Our server Scott was phenomenal, and made us feel so welcome as well as making amazing recommendations for our food. The menu has a great range of meals and price points, the atmosphere was lively but also chilled, we will be back!

As always, friendly, relaxed and welcoming, and dog friendly too. Well worth the jaunt from the NW Highlands.

Friendly, warm service and environment. Food was terrific.

Really excellent food, the staff and service were great. The upstairs bar was lively, the cellar restaurant was more intimate. I enjoyed a large dish of mussels in a rendang curry sauce which was delicious, my guest had the veggie haggis which was also fabulous. The cocktails and wine selection were great too 👍👍

We had the Sunday steak, it tasted great but it was way too little meat in composition to the other stuff on the plate. Felt far from the ideal generous Sunday roast. Otherwise nice experience.

Excellent food with friendly, knowledgeable staff and great atmosphere

Very good. Busy. Short menu with a good choice of shell food, fish, veggie and meat. I chose pigeon breast as a starter and Venison as a main. Good wine list. Excellent service.

Enjoyed starters then tasty venison and hake dishes from the main course menu with an excellent Languedoc Pinot Noir.

Love this place. Delicious food, especially the haggis - the main reason we were i.e. Burns night. Would highly recommend for anyone wanting to try haggis. Friendly staff. Great atmosphere. Will be back again. Thank you!

We will come back to eat, because the food looks good. But the bar area was a bit boring. We also ordered the Oaxacan peanuts as a bar snack and they were completely covered in bright red greasy oil. They tasted fine but were impossible to eat as a bar snack and dangerous for clothes! If you were sharing them in a bigger group you would have a lot of mess and licked fingers being dunked in and out of the nuts. Very odd!

Received a voucher as a gift the food, service everything was fantastic will definitely be back 10/10

Very cosy winter lunch beside the wood fire

If you're in Glasgow during the festive period (or any time actually) I highly recommend a visit to Stravaign. Twinkling lights everywhere, a roaring fire, friendly staff and patrons, hearty food and it's also dog friendly, if you feel pet deprived. I had a delicious zero beer there, which I can also recommend.

Really nice food and a good mix of small and large plates for all appetites, along with some original cocktails and an excellent wine list. Great atmosphere and service too.

First time in Glasgow, travelling solo, heard it was a good pub so booked for dinner. I took an Uber from my hotel, but a local bus back to a stop near my hotel. Enjoyed the bar atmosphere and dinner was excellent. Haggis, tatties and neeps starter (it convinced me I do like haggis), then venison with broccoli and chips ( I asked to swap main's normal mash for chips as I had it with the haggis) The venison was cooked to a perfect medium rare, as it should be, and the broccoli was also perfect, with a crispness. Great sauce complimenting both. The atmosphere is lovely, I was upstairs for dinner (which was a little warm even though I taken off several layers). Staff were lovely and service spot on. Loved this place. Definitely recommend.

Delicious food and friendly chatty staff. Lovely evening thank you

Lovely place and honestly we ate very well, I tried the whiskey and I have to say that I don't really like it but I ended up pouring it into my coffee as if it were a Scotch but without the cream hahaha. I recommend it if you have the opportunity to visit it, you will love it because I will return I promise

Great meal and fun way to see in the New Year. The service was very friendly and efficient despite a very busy night!

We had a great tine at Hogmanay Hoolie and really enjoyed food, wine, service and Michael’s excellent singing and guitar.

Lovely evening. Service top notch & food yummy too. 👏🏼🙏🏻👏🏼

We had a family Christmas Eve lunch (6 of us). Began with cocktails, continued with fabulous food and wine. Service and atmosphere were great. Plenty pretty lights and some festive buzz. Just perfect.

Lovely lunch with my son and parents - and while quiet when we sat down was very busy and cosy-feeling by about half one. Food was great, curry highly recommended

Dined here recently for my wife's birthday. Nice ambiance and vibe however the menu was disappointing. Starters and curry were tasty however the burgers were somewhat average. Two of our party ordered the prawn curry which was clearly read back by our waiter. Very disappointing to therefore be served two chicken curries when the food arrived! Those of us who had ordered burgers then had to wait whilst our food cooled until the correct order arrived about 10 minutes later. Not great. The menu also advertises Loch Melfort sea trout. I avoided this as it is undoubtedly farmed. Looking afterwards at the Loch Melfort aquaculture website it appears that the so called 'sea trout' are in fact sea farmed rainbow trout. The menu is therefore very misleading. Sea trout (a threatened and protected fish in Scotland) are native brown trout which migrate to sea and return to spawn-not farmed, non-indigenous rainbow trout. Ironically and sadly, aquaculture farms have decimated wild sea trout stocks by infesting them with sea lice. The restaurant needs to spell out exactly what is on offer on the menu- i.e Loch Melfort sea farmed rainbow trout and not "sea trout'.

First visit since sale to Greene King and delighted to see it’s as good as it ever was. Great choice of dishes on menu and wonderfully cosy atmosphere on a dreich December day. VERY dog friendly.

Mixed dining experience. Overpriced and underwhelming burgers but dessert, staff and service was great!

Great pub, great atmosphere… food ain’t too bad either, smashing wee scoobie snack when out for a pint

I had a lovely, festive meal on the 24th accompanied by a nice glass of Romanian wine. The atmosphere in the cellar was really relaxing, the parsnip and apple veloute I had was 10 out of 10 & the main dish was an unusual for me interpretation of the Christmas turkey - very tasty though;)) for my dessert I ordered the Tonka bean Panna cotta which was very light/creamy and a very nice finish of my festive meal;) highly recommend the experience

I had a Xmas lunch (3 course meal) with around 20 guests and had a lovely time. The presentation and quality of the food was spectacular, even with such a large number of guests. The staff were lovely and regularly asking how we were finding our dishes which were so tasty. The portion sizes were good too for a festive 3-course meal. My biggest appreciation was for how the resturant kindly agreed to alter their festive menu 2 months prior to accommodate for a large number of vegetarian guests. They included a variety of tasty veggie and non-veg options and my veggie guests greatly enjoyed their meals! Amazing!

Lovely food, good service and a nice atmosphere

Fab all round ! Very hard working staff considering they are up and down these stairs with a smile 👏👏

i love Stravaigin. It is my 4th year to hold a group celebration there. The Festive Menu was great and we were very well looked after by the staff. I adored the orange and chocolate dessert.

Booked for our team's Christmas lunch and it was brilliant. Delicious food, excellent choice of wine and a lovely atmosphere. Thank you!

Fantastic service, fantastic food and fantastic atmosphere . Hard to beat Stravaigin.

Google said I am a top 20% reviewer and is annoyingly pushing me to leave a comment or review for this location. I avoided it a few times, but obviously, the universe wants this to happen, so here you go. I've been to Stravaigan twice in my life. I don't have either a particularly positive or negative experience. It's some sort of pseudo sophistication "wearing" an urban hipster vibe. It's not my style for sure. The staff are really friendly and helpful, the food is good (I assume), and as I said about the atmosphere—it’s probably the best place in the world for someone, but not my gig. Both times I’ve been there, I was ill for a week afterwards. I rarely get ill in general. I don't know the reason and I'm not going to investigate either, but as a result, I’m not going back for sure, as that’s the message I’m getting from the universe. Apart from that, if this is your style—enjoy! P.S. I don't think this review is helpful for anyone apart from Google, so don't get it too serious. Don't get life too serious as well as tomorrow never comes.

My first time trying Haggis, really lovely restaurant, the pigeon was superb as well. My favorite part was the atmosphere, please visit if you're in the West End.

A birthday lunch just before Christmas - the restaurant is beautifully decorated and was fairly quiet (thankfully) the lunchtime we attended. Excellent haggis and a parsnip and apple soup with very good gluten-free bread. All tasted very fresh and good. Main courses are pricey at around £29 ish but deliver on taste and very well judged for balance in flavour. The wine is pricey but again, for us, this was a treat so felt the wine list offered a good choice. The Tempranillo was not light at 14% but holds good quality and fruit. Would order all the same things again. Service was fun, prompt and lovely from Olivia with back up speed and polite, friendly and excellent. Overall, excellent place and dining experience. Big thanks for such a fun visit.

Was here working, doing caricatures for a works Christmas party. Atmosphere was great and the staff were friendly and helpful. The downstairs area was perfect for a private function and we definitely recommend

Lovely food, great wine selection, wonderful staff and twinkly ambience- will be back to this local gem

Excellent food and good pricing. Staff were very helpful and personable.

Such an amazing experience for authentic Scottish Cuisine. Loved the Haggis and Pigeon. A must try for anybody when in Glasgow.

Really great restaurant. Staff, food and atmosphere fantastic. Go.

An absolutely wonderful dining experience. The food is phenomenal and worth so much more than the sum of its parts. Me and my partner had the pigeon & the beetroot starters, both were excellent and I’d highly recommend. The venison main was excellent and so worth the price. The staff made a relaxing but attentive environment and the decor is beautiful. This was one of the best meals I’ve had in years. Can’t wait to return to try more!

We were given a nice quiet corner near the fire. Then enjoyed Haggis beeps and tattles followed by a delicious dessert. What more could you want!

Lovely night great staff, so friendly and all recognised us from being in before and came to chat felt nice!

This is my favourite pub in Glasgow. The food is amazing and the staff are always polite and friendly. The atmosphere is cosy, relaxed and dog friendly… what’s not to love!

Always fabulous! Stravagin don’t ever change we love you!!!

We have an annual girls' Xmas lunch at Stravaigin and this year was just as good as previously. Food always lovely and the service yesterday was really great - thanks!

Nice enough food, but very expensive. Staff were friendly but overworked, so we had to keep stopping them to ask for things.

Had a fabulous meal here on a Sunday afternoon, the place was buzzing with happy diners and friendly and efficient staff. Interesting and tasty food, decent wine and cocktail list, comfy seating in lots of areas (mezzanine was really lovely). Great value for money, I will definitely be back the next time I'm in Glasgow!

This was our first visit to the restaurant and we were not disappointed...food,service and atmosphere were all great .we will definitely be back

Manager and staff kept a table for friends. No reserved times on tables. Bad customer service. Don’t go.

I went to celebrate my birthday and had a wonderful experience. The staff was friendly and helpful. The food was amazing (So good that my Indian friend said the curry was the best she’s ever eaten.) and they brought out a cheesecake to celebrate at the end.

Great food and service in interesting venue. Top notch

Had our wedding party in the mezzanine and the staff couldn’t have been more attentive, everything was perfect! Great atmosphere, the nicest staff and the food was amazing, as always. Thanks again, can’t wait to be back! <3

I was talking a friend there to celebrate her birthday and we had such a lovely time!! Staff were fab food was super- Loved it

Very cozy, nice, very attentive attitude. Cheesecake is amazingly delicious.

All very nice thanks. Service was excellent and friendly without being intrusive. Food was superb. Atmosphere was quiet as our party of 10 was almost the only customer…..this suited us as it was a reunion and we could hear each other! Many thanks.

Lovely magical atmosphere, friendly professional service, great wine list and menu.

Took international colleagues here for dinner when they visited hoping to shown them the best of Scotland and Stravaigin delievered. food was excellent, atmosphere was as excellent, staff were great criac. will be back for sure

Best sunday roast in Glasgow IMO. Food was delicious and the service was great, staff really friendly and attentive.

Enjoy the Sunday Roast in a movie atmosphere. The welcome and treatment with the staff was incredible, attentive to everything we needed. The atmosphere was magical, our table was at the top and you could see all the decoration, it is super cozy and there were many local customers, that already indicates that the food is good. And most importantly the food, whenever we travel to the United Kingdom we usually have the Sunday Roast and it is without a doubt the best we have tried. A must see if you visit Glasgow 🥰

Great service and great food, atmosphere friendly and inviting .

Great lunch & great service. Staff excellent. Perfect!

My mum and I stopped for a night in Glasgow when travelling to see family in Scotland, for our holiday treat, chose our old favourite (Stravaigin) for dinner. It did not disappoint! Food was a fantastic as ever - tasty, imaginative dishes, service friendly, helpful. We had my dog, which was no problem to them - well worth a visit, you won’t be disappointed. Highlights for me were the Scallops and pumpkin (excellent, well thought out, balanced plate) or the manchego brûlée but it’s hard to choose as all the dishes were amazing - others we had were the pigeon starter, duck leg special with tabbouleh, the Basque cheesecake. If I was to make any criticism at all we did have to wait a bit for our desert order to be taken, then again to pay our bill - but I am really nip picking as there were plenty of staff, all busy in full service, so we could of flagged someone down but we were in no hurry so waiting was no problem. Thanks again Stravaigin, a highlight of our trip home

Sunday Lunch. Made a trip in from Balloch purely for Sunday Lunch on a dreich day on a recommendation. Simply put, worth the trip. Great atmosphere, great service, memorable (in a good way) Yorkshires filled with a really savoury ragu, to accompany really tasty roast beef and enough decent gravy to keep a Yorkshire Lass happy (not an easy feat). I still don't like Haggis but that is my problem as this may be the best I've ever tried either vegetarian or 'real', too. And the vanilla ice cream was just amazing, maybe not had better outside of Italy. Don't dither, GO. We will next time we are anywhere near.

Great pub. Lots of table space, never a long wait at bar. Great staff.

Haggis is just out of this world tasty. Very-very good, buy the large portion, don't rob yourself of such a feast with a smaller version. Again, can't say enough good things about the haggis. The staff is super pleasant, the vibes great, the steak is nice too, but just you go and order that haggis and thank me later

We had a lovely diner. The food was so delicious, the service friendly and efficient and the atmosphere pleasant and relaxed. And they take dogs too. Definitely will be back.

Excellent food, lovely service and congenial atmosphere. My favourite restaurant bar in Glasgow.