Stravaigin in Glasgow City

If you do one thing when in Glasgow, eat here! The food is unbelievably tasty, and the portions very generous. Not to mention the staff, who are lovely and so friendly. We’re tourists and received a lovely warm welcome. The restaurant has a warm decor and is also very clean. My partner had ‘the best burger he’s ever had’ and I had the traditional haggis with neeps and tatties (mashed parsnips/root veg and potatoes) with the recommended creamy whisky sauce, which was luxuriously indulgent. Word of warning though - the haggis as a main will leave you rolling around Glasgow in a state of delirium.

Stravaigin is a lovely place to have a special meal. There’s a great atmosphere that is very relaxed, the staff are lovely and the food is exceptional. Everything we ate was delicious. Snack: sourdough with humous. Starters: mackerel; mussels Mains: haggis with neeps and tatties; pork belly All of the food was fantastic. There is a wide range of beer on tap as well as alcohol free drinks and a decent wine list

Staff & Food excellent and could not do any more for us, Archie our rescue dog also loved it

"A 10% discretionary service charge will be added to all tables"

The haggis here was excellent, well worth a try. And my waitress Aiyana was wonderful as well!

Delicious food and great atmosphere. Also, good lunch special, sun and bun, (chicken or fried eggplant).

Very nice atmosphere and furnitures. Lunch meal is so great. Mackerel tastes average.

A highly recommended restaurant in Glasgow. Delicious food, a lovely atmosphere, and very friendly and helpful staff.

Stravaigin truly delivers on its motto: “Think global, eat local.” The food was outstanding - creative, beautifully presented, and full of flavour. I was especially surprised by the attention to detail in even the simplest dishes. The green side dish, in particular, stood out - perfectly cooked and bursting with flavour. It’s rare to see such care put into every element of the meal.

Can’t comment about the food because I only had one expensive pint of £7, it was alright, but I do not appreciate London prices in Glasgow. My friend, she ordered a large mussel, she only ate half, and asked to pack her left over. We waited a while for the take away bag, turns out the wait staff just threw them away! This is poor customer service.

Gorgeous restaurant, excellent customer service the team are so attentive and atmosphere inside is fab. Thank you

Their haggis bonbons have achieved legendary status – crispy outside, peppery within. The daily specials board uses Scottish dialect that baffles tourists (“stovies” = potato heaven). Kitchen staff pop out to explain obscure ingredients like sea buckthorn.

The food here is exceptional but the staff and their service make it impeccable. There was nothing I could fault. Scott who was serving us was nothing short of excellent. One of the best servers I have encountered over my many years of culinary dining.

I loved the setting, the welcome, and the food. Nice decor (especially the bar stools :) Great playlist. The waitress and waiter were very kind and gave good advice. The haggis with its little whisky sauce is to die for. Very good rhubarb cheesecake. Not to be missed in Glasgow.

I went for a lunch after years I was last there and the food is much worse. Not only everything is very modest, prices are ridiculously high and they have just a sst menu for all day with prices that you can find on a fine dinning restaurant. Now I see why noone was there for lunch. I will not go again for sure.

Look if you are looked after well your food tastes SUPERFLUOUS 😁😁😁. The restaurant was almost closing and we had come a long way and struggled to park, beautiful Saturday I feel for the kitchen staff but if they had said no can't do I won't feel bad (them need a rest) but they fed us, yes they did. Many thanks I had the small plate of lamb, we had the cauliflower and venison, all yummy 😋- there will be no need to wash the plates 'cos we cleared it well well. ❤️

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!

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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 👍👍

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'.

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

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!

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!

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

Lovely food, good service and a nice atmosphere

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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!!!

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

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!

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

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.

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

Great food and service in interesting venue. Top notch