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Any other University of Glasgow Alumni?
morcus - 10/8/13 at 05:55 PM

I'm going to Glasgow for a competition and I'm staying in halls for a week there. I am technically a former student but I only went there about twice (Was a Joint department with Strathclyde, where I did all my Learning).

Just wondering what pubs and places to eat are good in the area as though I'd prefer to go to places I'm familliar with like The Merchant City and Trongate, it will mean treking about and being out later than I'd like.

I'm really currious to see if theres any evidence of my Flatmates famed 'kitchen assault' of 2006 left as I think I'm in that hall.

coyoteboy - 10/8/13 at 07:51 PM

I worked there for 4 years, don't think that counts though.

morcus - 10/8/13 at 10:16 PM

In 4 years you must have learnt the places to go. west of the M8 is a mystery to me.

coyoteboy - 10/8/13 at 10:27 PM

How's this?
http://goo.gl/maps/F0Tfj

sdh2903 - 10/8/13 at 10:31 PM

West of the M8? You going to greenock??

morcus - 10/8/13 at 10:47 PM

Touché, I meant more the kink than the whole M8.

coyoteboy - 10/8/13 at 10:50 PM

I can't help you with kinks, not been to any of that sort of club yet

sdh2903 - 11/8/13 at 12:13 AM

Blue oyster bar is good I beleive.............

coyoteboy - 11/8/13 at 01:04 AM

So I've heard!

stevebubs - 11/8/13 at 01:18 PM

The few times I was there, we just wandered up and down Sauchiehall Street for food/drink as it was just up the road from the hotel....

I vaguely remember a very cheap rock bar at the top of Elmbank Street. Remember ordering more than 4 pints and getting more than a tenner back...strangely enough there it was complemented by a rainbow bar opposite...

stevebubs - 11/8/13 at 01:19 PM

Mosquito bar on Bath Street was a good place just to chill...

stevebubs - 11/8/13 at 01:27 PM

PS Was working there, not up as a student...

sdh2903 - 11/8/13 at 02:10 PM

If I'm up in town I prefer the merchant city myself some very nice restaurants and bars. Bit more of a chilled atmosphere. Ashton lane is nice if you want to head out the West End. Theres a very nice curry house there called the wee curry shop, they do a lovely tandoori haddock starter, there's also a few bars and a small licensed cinema with comfy armchairs and couches. Only a couple of stops from town on the subway.

coyoteboy - 14/8/13 at 12:31 PM

quote:

If I'm up in town I prefer the merchant city myself some very nice restaurants and bars. Bit more of a chilled atmosphere.

That's an interesting viewpoint - I see it the other way around!

cs3tcr - 14/8/13 at 03:31 PM

I was there last September and spent most of my drinking time at Lauders on Sauchiehall as it was close to the hotel i was staying at, and didnt seem to have that bad of an atmosphere. I did visist Ashton Lane and had a couple pints at the small pub attached to the Chip, as well as a number of pints at the pub above the Grosvenor Cinema. I would go back to the Grosvenor, but go to the actual Chip rather than the wee pub. There are a couple decent pubs along Byres Rd that had a nice relaxed atmosphere (at least during the afternoon).

Other than that, had a few at the Tollbooth at Saltmarket and London Rd, and acutally had a good time.

coyoteboy - 14/8/13 at 04:36 PM

I find atmosphere and good times are more variable with company quality than location/venue.

morcus - 15/8/13 at 05:42 PM

Went into town in the end rather than bother with maryhill or the surrounding area and stuck with what I knew.