GLASGOW

Bar 91 is a one roomed bar diner.  The windows to the street are actually doors which can open up in the summer to make the whole front al fresco. The servery is to the mid and back right. Both sides have padded seating along the walls. There are lots of four seat tables with very basic chairs. Prepare for a fight for the padded settles.  There are stools along the bar and around a taller thin table/wide shelve in the centre of the room. Food at lunch time and after 6pm.

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Heavy:      Seven Peaks; Gladeye; Innes & Gunn; Innes & Gunn Mango

Lager:       Innes & Gunn Lager; Heverlee;   ;  Tennent’s;  Manabrea; Corona; Victoria Malaga

Cider:     Magners Guinness

Beer Cafe concentrates on beers from around the world. There are 18 countries mentioned in their beer menu. The main room is dominated by a semi-circular servery on the left-hand wall, which is higher than usual and then has beer fonts set on small stages above this. There is a mirrored wall on the right-hand wall. There are some booths by the window and along the back wall. There is outside seating along pavement in suitable weather and a back door leads out to seating inside the Merchant Square courtyard. Pies served until late every day. The web site gives a beer menu – what a change from food, wine and cocktails.

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Heavy:      Caledonia Best; Gladeye; Midway;

Lager:      Heverlee;  Tennent’s;  Leffe;  Menabrea; Weissebier;  Weihenstephan Hefe;  ; Budweisser ; Jubel Peach Lager        

Cider: Magners Guinness           

The Metropolitan is a large bar with restaurant upstairs. There is an extensive area of outside-inside seating through the back to the inside of the Merchant Square courtyard.  There is also some outside seating on the pavement. The bar room has some booths, lots of standing area with wooden floors and an industrial look to the ceiling with lights on steel frames and ventilation shafts and tunnels. Pleasant staff.

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Heavy:       Caledonia Best

Lager:       Tennent’s;  St Mungo ;  Estrella;  Peroni;  Heineken;  Budweiser

Cider:        Magners                         Guinness

Bar Square has a large windowed room looking over the corner. There is also a lot of outside-inside seating. The main room has a couple of booths and shelves around the windows. The rest of the room has basic tables and chairs. There are a few steps up to the servery and then through to the Merchant Square courtyard tables. Food is a big part of the trade.

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Lager:       Stella;   Tennent’s;   Peroni   ; Budweisser        

Cider:     Magners                             Guinness

Becoming The Tap Yard (despite connotations of the name) has not changed the layout. Servery on right hand wall, tall tables in main room, some seating upstairs and lots of tables outside in the courtyard inside the Fruitmarket.

The changes are that the decoration has lost  the fake greenery. The lights and most of the back bar shelves have been boarded over and replaced by TVs as befits a move to a sports and food bar.

Steak, Cattle and Roll (formerly Bar Espagnol Mercado) is a large room with servery on the right hand wall withy the kitchen opposite it. Lots of tall tables and chairs in area between kitchen and servery Stairs to right of kitchen take you to seating set above the kitchen in a mezzanine floor. There is seating outside and through the bar area, there are a variety of dining tables for different party sizes in the inside-outside seating in the Fruitmarket.

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Pale Ale:  Jubel Beer cut with Peach;   Gladeye IPA ; Blue Moon

Lager:    Tennent’s;   Staroperamen;  Madri; Tap Room Lager;   Heineken

  Guinness

O’Neil’s is a large Irish bar-food place in one corner of the Square and has a lot of inside-outside seating in towards the Merchant Square courtyard.  Some beer pumps to help age the place but not serving. Even a lot of the keg handles had stickers over their names as not in use.  The main room has a high decorative ceiling. There is a lot of standing room and a variety of tables heights.  There is a comfortable back room to search out.

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Heavy:      Belhaven best;  Smithwicks Superior Irish ale

Lager:       Tennent’s;  Coors;  Carlsberg; Heineken

Cider:       Magners                          Guinness

Bar Soba has an entrance to the bar area from the road and in alley way to the fruit market. from the road the area has tall tables and stools with servery against the back wall. Following the counter along to the left brings another area with five low booths. This can lead to the fruitmarket or around to the right to a large dining area, with more dining upstairs.  There is outside inside seating within the fruitmarket square.

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An expensive cold lager and restaurant establishment.

Lager:   Estrella;  Asahi;  Kirin;  San Miguel;  Staroperamen

Bar Gandolfi is the upstairs bar of Cafe Gandolfi. Up to flights of stairs there is a small room with a sloping ceiling and large rectangular bar taking up more space than required. The counter, stools and tables are a light wood. The tables are designed to look roughly cut out. Food is offered.

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Heavy:      St Andrew’s Ale

Lager:       Peroni;    Heineken;  St Mungo

Cider:       Addlestones                   Belhaven Black

Home Bar has a large window frontage with an entrance at the left-hand side. This takes you to a large room with bookcase wallpaper at the far wall now replaced by distressed wood . The curved servery is on the left-hand wall. There is a variety of sizes and shapes of tables on the wooden floor, with couches and low tables are at the windows.  There are curved booths against back and right wall. Stairs on right wall take you to seating at rear and above bar overlooking the main area. There is a high ceiling with decorative lighting.

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Bitter:   Lunar Haze; Neck Oil; Light Wave Session IPA (71 Brewing Co); Fierce Rhubarb Fruit Pale Ale

Lager:   Staroperamen; St Mungo; Feierabend Pilsner;   Tennent’s

Cider:    Orchard Thieves                                           Guinness

The Babbity Bowster is a one roomed bar. The square servery, serving two sides, is straight ahead. There is seating to the right and left of the door. Seating, dark brown tables and chairs on a light wood floor, and decor are a bit stark. Through from the right of servery is an equally large outside seating area.

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CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2024

Real ale;               Glasgow Cross; Jaguar (Kelkburn);  Deuchers;  Old Golden hen;

Bitter:                   Belhaven Best; Chieftan

Lager:                   Menabrea; Estrella Galicia; Weihenstephan;  Tennent’s;  Budvar             

Cider: Magners; Aspall     

Strathduie Bar has replaced Macgregors Pie and Ale Howff (opened March 2016) which replaced an earlier Strathduie Bar. There is a large selection of bottled beers and pies. The lounge is still served via a hatch from the bar but the linking door remains open. Both rooms have a red and tartan design for seating and stools. The bar has wooded flooring and tiles near counter. Real ale has gone and beer selection become very basic.

The door for the gents in the bar still challenges the overweight. OLD GLASGOW PUBS

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Real ale;  has gone

Bitter:      Caledonia Best

Lager:     Tennent’s,      Heverlee; Budweisser

Cider: Magners Guinness          

The Black Bull is a traditional corner bar. Small one roomed bar with a chunk taken out of the longer side for close access to floors above. Floor is wooden and tiled near the counter. There are four poles supporting the ceiling which reduce movement. Lots of drinking room in basic bar on outskirts of The Fruitmarket area. HISTORY - OLD GLASGOW PUBS

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Heavy:      Caledonia best

Lager:       Carling;   Tennent’s;

Cider:        Strongbow                      Guinness                              

McChuill’s is a bar with a famous entertainment venue. Inside the door the servery is along the left wall finishing half way down room. Then round from servery to the left is pool table. Further down from servery is dining style seating. Opposite servery and all down the right hand side are stools with a shelve. Tiled floor with wooden furniture and counter. A really nice wee bar even if not going to the entertainment.

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Pale Ale: Neck Oil; Gamma Ray

Lager:       Amstel; Birra Moretti; 1664; Red Stripe; Staroperamen

Cider:        Strongbow ; Strongbow Dark Fruit                     Guinness