My friend won a Facebook competition and received a voucher for 2 pizzas and a bottle of wine, so along we popped to try out Clydebuilt.
I'm not a great fan of the layout; parts of it could have been more sheltered since I felt like I was sitting right in the middle of the SECC concourse, on busy concert nights I can imagine you would feel very hemmed in. My other gripe is that Clydebuilt doesn't have its own toilets; you have to use the main SECC ones. If you felt the call of nature whilst eating, I imagine your food would probably be cold by the time you went to the loo on a busy concert night.
The food itself is really tasty however, my friend and I shared some coca cola ribs to start (we were getting the rest of the meal free so figured we should at least buy something!); these were juicy and smokey and the meal literally fell of the bone. Yum! Next, we both opted to try the Strathdon pizza (Aberdeenshire blue cheese, mozzarella and pancetta). I love blue cheese on a pizza, so rich and adds a little extra something to a pizza I feel. We both found these to be lovely, well-made and not skimpy with toppings.
The service was a little so-so. As I mentioned, we both ordered pizzas so we thought we would get some proper knives/cutters to attack these with. How wrong we were, we had to struggle through with just normal butter knives. Messy! They also tried to charge us for the full meal, even though Vicky had clearly stated at the time of booking that she was a competition winner. On the other hand, our server (I can't remember his name), was very attentive and coped well with a busy night and was very helpful in offering tips and advice on what to try.
Overall, a bit meh. Good food but the service and the layout isn't great sadly. read more