Made a reservation 1 week in advance for an early dinner party of 4 with a highchair for my baby. Upon arriving, there was a table for 6 set in a very uncomfortable location in the empty dining room. When asking if we can have a corner booth which would make us all more at ease.. it was a major problem with their reservations. I made this request a week in advance for a 5:30 dinner? What's the problem? At 5:45, we were told we could be moved ONLY if we left at 7pm. From then on we were rushed by average service to eat until it was time for us to leave. Food was tasty.. but MAJOR thumbs down on the service. read more

What a great pub with some top notch food. Definitely always bring visitors here to show them good scottish grub.

Great menu, atmosphere, and service! I'm especially partial to their vegetarian Scottish breakfast. Their fish and chips are also delicious and great value. Overall one of my favorite spots in Glasgow! read more

I really like this place. We went here for brunch on a Sunday and their brunch menu was quite awesome! The atmosphere is quite quirky and the food is really tasty. I would definitely recommend it. read more

visited stravaigin whilst staying with my sister in glasgow - great restaurant. A really chilled out vibe, friendly helpful staff, and lovely food. The Nasi Goreng is amazing, and leave space for ice cream and anzac biscuits mm mm mmm read more

Great food, drinks were good. Came in at the tail end of the lunch menu and had a great cauliflower and hazelnut soup, then had the haggis for my main course. It was great. Glad to know hipsters are not just prevalent in the states but are alive and well in Scotland too. Which is no complaint by me because the establishments always have a unique take and view of food. My only complaint was that my server wasn't super helpful, I've heard service is a little different in the United Kingdom, where you are usually left alone, but at the same time trying to flag them down was at times a little hard and I felt that I was constantly waiting for something. read more

We ended up here for brunch on a Saturday. It was excellent and I can't wait to go back and try the regular menu. the atmosphere is really nice but can be a bit tight on space. They have different sections and the restaurant is downstairs. read more

I've only been here once, but I wasn't overly impressed. The atmosphere is really nice, friendly and cosy, and the service was good enough. The food was a bit of a disappointment though. I had the only vegetarian option on the menu, and while it was quite tasty, the portion size was ridiculously small for what the price was (around £15). I would've thought it was a starter. So that was a shame! It might've only been that one meal though, and I do think I would go back and try something else again. read more

I,ve been dining & drinking @ the Stravaigin since summer 1995 however with less frequency in this past year or so, up until then we were there most Sunday evenings Sunday past I pursueded my husband & friends to go back because let's face it the food is so good but disappointment as soon as we placed our drinks order, no Guinness & later in the evening they ran out of the lager which is our friends tipple We were giving the Stravaigin another chance but I don't think we,ll be back read more

Graeme was our waiter - a pleasant Scottish man with sound food advice. I enjoyed a few Scottish whiskies along with my lamb dinner. My wife had the duck. Both very good dinners. We skipped the calories of dessert but the menu looked terrific. Safe area at night. Downstairs sit down restaurant was all tourists and upstairs was all locals or university folks. read more

I've been to stravaigin twice, the first time was really good and the second, really bad. The first time was in January 2015. The service was perfect, they took our jacket, they were very welcoming and smiling. We received complimentary appetisers and little bites between our dishes. The presentation of the dishes was very nice, everything was very tasty. I would even say it was good value for the money. I viewed it as a fancy restaurant to bring your mother-in-law or impress your date! BUT, for the farewell party of a friend, in July 2015, we agreed to go there as one of my friend also had a nice experience in Stravaigin. When making the reservation, we specified that someone had a peanut allergy. We arrived at the restaurant, the service wasn't as nice: no one asked for our jackets, The staff was hesitating while listing the specials... Anyway, the point is: two of my friends ordered the pork belly and both of them felt sick after... One had a bellyache for the rest of the evening and the other was sick the day after (sorry for the details but it needs to be said). Moreover, coming back to the peanut story, when asked for the dessert menu, the waitress actually just announced the deserts and my friend ordered the brownie. However, when served, she spotted some peanuts in it and had to send it back. I think it's pretty simple to simply orally notify customers if dishes contain peanuts (specially as it is one of the most common allergies). Moreover, we also specified it when we made the reservation, so no excuse! In conclusion, I would not come back to this restaurant. read more

Fantastic atmosphere, diverse variety on the menu and unusual, tasty combinations, decent portion size, and great service

This is a casual place that serves very hearty Scotish food. I would not recommend the calve liver as it is very gamey. The food is heavy with large portions and rich. The reviews I read seem to give it a better rating than we would I would give this place a 6-7 on a scale of 1-10. read more

Love, love love this place. We spent a couple weeks in Glasgow and this was our go-to spot. The dinner menu is great, but we REALLY loved breakfast here. The bar and the bar tenders are great too. Thank you Stravaigin for making our stay wonderful! read more

Tasty haggis and friendly service. Actually this was my first haggis experience so it was memorable. It's a friendly home-cooked kind of place. Both my omnivorous self and my pescertarian girlfriend were very pleased with our entrees too...have to confess I'm completing this review two months later so I can't rembmer exactly what it was but it was tasty! read more

This place has been consistently solid in terms of the quality of food and the reputation with the West End crowd for well over 10 years. It is still one of the best in the West End dispite other restaurants popping up over the years. The bar is a great casual dining/drinking experience with friendly, welcoming staff and unusual dishes. The balcony area is a great place to go for a snack. Downstairs is a lovely space offering more formal (but not too formal!) dining. It has an intimate feel with its basement location. read more

As I met my fiancee in Stravaigin, I guess I'm a bit biased about the place. But even if you don't find last love there, you will find some really delicious food. I've been there for lunches, dinners and brunches and it's all been very good. The eggs florentine that I had for brunch recently was one of the best I've ever had. Service rather depends on how busy they are but it's normally fine and it's a nice place to hang out anyway. I've always thought that the prices were in line with what I was getting. All in all a big thumbs up! read more

Whent here for a birthday meal with my family. Ravioli in tomato broth starter consisted of 3 pieces of slightly undercooked ravioli in salty warm water withdiced tomato and peas. Main was turbot with apples capers and a brown butter sauce. Strane combination thatvdidnt realy work in my oppinion. Overall the food was not great, especially for the price, and portions where tiny. Wouldnt reccomend. read more

Very nice food but the service really made this meal! Lovely staff and nice atmosphere. Attentive staff from the moment we sat down, top class food at a decent price, especially for the area. Is easy to miss with all the other venues around but definitely worth seeking out. read more

Now don't get me wrong first thing I will say is the food here was great! I absolutely loved it and had to completely fill up on as much of my food as I could. However when I went the service was incredibly slow considering that it wasn't overly busy. We chose to sit in the bar area as opposed to the restaurant as the food was more appealing to us but between courses I could definitely feel myself getting hungry again. When we arrived we ordered drinks and waited about 15-20 minutes for 4 drinks: 2 of which were simple bottles of beers and the other 2 were glasses of wine. I will not fault the girl who took our order and continued to take our orders during the evening, she was great and superbly chatty however the servers who brought our food looked like they would rather be anywhere else and didn't even bother with a smile or even a 'you're welcome' when we thanked them for the food, in fact eye contact was avoided at all times throughout the interaction. Overall: fabulous food, not such fabulous service! read more

another pro bar, great food, great service, gets a bit hot when you sit upstairs - Mojitos are amazing as well as a good selction of beer and wine. Great if youcan get a seat on a summer evening on the terrace outside. Features an Aku Ankka statue too - awesome! great restaurant downstairs as well. Bar is often open until 1am. read more

I like this place ,cool atmosphere since they changed the decor I'm going there more often with friends,recommended for a night out in west end. read more

when not full this is a great place relaxed, good wines beers, food can be good but a bit overpricred. if sat upstairs to eat it is too small not good downstairs bar with Wifi is a place I'll be going back to. When I was there a special on oysters was a good deal and they were something special. read more

I was in Glasgow last month, on vacation. Walked into Stravaigin by chance, as it was quite near where I was staying. Menu is a treat, just to read it makes your mouth water and you wonder how you can try so many dishes in the short time you have. I ate there six times in one week, sometimes had the same thing twice (perfect eggs benny with smoked salmon). Memorable haggis with neeps and tatties and whisky sauce, gnocchi made from tomatoes, a vegetarian curry, a lamb kibbeh starter, a mango & chocolate cream dessert. Oh yes, and a first-rate latte. Oh, and a starter bowl of soup the way I like it : pureed and lightly seasoned, served with thick crusty peasant bread. Servers were attentive, not hovering, helpful, knowledgeable, a very Scottish characteristic. Twice I was accompanied by cousins who are vegetarian and they found plenty of tasty options on the menu. Stravaigin was perfect for us. read more

Decent bar menu upstairs. Less convinced about eating downstairs but upsatirs is friendly and buzzy and fun.

This is my favorite brunch spot in Glasgow! I'm from America where we take brunch very seriously :P and Seriously, this place is awesome. The decor is quirky and feels like a cosy pub, but their brunches are soooooo tasty! I get the Eggs Benedict with a chilli kick and vegetarian sausages that are so tasty my meat-loving boyfriend gets them too. It's a dog-friendly restaurant too so we can take our foster dogs there after a stroll in the beautiful Kelvingrove Park! My only gripe is their service. The manager is not very friendly and they always seem a bit annoyed when you order. Once when I asked for the vegetarian sausages (which are on the menu...) I swear the manager rolled his eyes at me and said something under his breath before hesitantly agreeing to serve them to me. Normally this kind of service would put me off a place but I don't care! It's so good they could throw it at me and I'd still eat it! read more

Stravaigin. I have no idea how to pronounce the word, so I'll have to replace it with the kind of eye-rolling, drool producing, Homer Simpson-style gurgle instead. That's because, in the middle of Glasgow's most fashionable sector, lies one of the nicest places you're likely to visit. The decor is 'old and wooden, but still feeling modern', which is incredibly popular around Britain at the moment. It's no bad thing at all. The lighting's low enough to feel intimate, but no so low you feel like you're sitting down a man hole. There's a decent array of booze too. I can't remember the name of the bottled ale I slurped from Alloa (the beer was made in Alloa you understand, rather than my actually hoovering it with my mouth from Alloa to Glasgow) but it was excellent and the food was great too. Everyone seemed to rate the burgers there (and they looked impressive enough) but, thanks to my being an unswerving ponce, I went for the pheasant kiev, which was very good indeed and much better than everyone else's food, thereby giving me an enormous sense of smugness as well as a pleasingly full stomach. One thing worth pointing out is that the staff here are above-and-beyond top-notch. Incredibly helpful and friendly and a credit to their mothers. Or something. Either way, this place is well worth a visit. A real jewel of Glasgow's West End. Well. The bits I saw at any rate. read more

Now, I like this place a lot; friendly staff, cozy decor, great drinks selection that are always presented well, but it keeps letting me down in one area: the food. I have eaten here, in the upstairs dining and bar areas, several times, and the food I've had has generally been good, but not so good or bad as to write about. This all changed last night, and in a bad way. I am a foodie; I try to buy local, and I love cooking, I usually eat pretty delicious food day to day. When I eat out it's usually a bit of a treat and I tend to choose something I wouldn't have at home. Usually meat, often a burger. I love a good burger [my top burger of all time was eaten at Honest Burger at Brixton Village in London, incredible, but that's another story], and there are many places in Glasgow that do a great one [Nice n Sleazy's, Butterfly & the Pig, Black Sparrow], and when I chose to have one at a place I would generally rate as superior to the others, I expected the burger to be of the same standard, or higher. Nope: It. Was. Disgusting. It tasted like it had been bought from a supermarket, full of fat. It was not only greasy, but colorless [grey, sad looking meat] & flavorless. I asked for a blue cheese topping which I think had been forgotten, or was very thinly melted on top. It was all that was in the bun, which would have been fine if the burger was amazing and juicy and the bun high quality, but neither item was good and so it just tasted like mulch. I was so disappointed. I would have sent it back if the waitress had come back to check on us once she gave us the food, but she didn't. We finished our nice wine and left without dessert or coffee and went elsewhere for these. My partner had an okay dinner but weren't very impressed either. I am too British to send food like this back [and also have worked in many restaurants and have seen what has been sent out to complaining customers so have the fear I could be receiving something back that has been on the kitchen floor!], but when you spend £10 on a burger [£1.50 less than the superb burger at Bread Street Kitchen in London], something with pretty basic ingredients, you expect them to get it right , or at least as right as the other great burgers in Glasgow. Nope. Get it right. If I dare to eat the slightly over priced food here again and it actually seems worth it, I will up a star, but for now, I'm not impressed. read more

I've been there during a short trip to Glasgow and absolutely LOVED it! The interior, a mixture of old wood and modern elements, the friendly service and of course the food. I had the best mackerel ever, with lime and tequila marinade, recommendable! It's not very cheap, but compared to other restaurants the price-performance ratio is excellent! read more

Stravaigin (pronouned: Stra-vay-gan, I asked) was one of the best dining experiences I've had in a long time. My friends and I were visiting Glasgow for the weekend from Birmingham England and had booked a table at Stravaigin for Saturday evening. Approaching the restaurant we were unsure, as the bar is upstairs and seemed quite casual and rustic, however the restaurant is located in a beautiful room downstairs. We were greeted warmly and seated at a small table. A few minutes later the hostess came and told us she had a much better table for us. We were thrilled! The mea started off with beautiful bread accompanied by hummus. We also ordered a nicely priced bottle of Pinot Grigio. Each of us had an oyster to begin, which was delicious. My friend had the coconut pancakes and I had the pork belly soup to start. Both were very flavourful and a great start to he meal. We both ordered the hake for dinner, with a side of wok'd greens. Let me tell you, the hake was unbelievably good. My friend had the walnut cake for dessert and loved it. Service was fantastic throughout the night and they were happy to answer all of our questions about the unique menu. What a fabulous evening. This restaurant is a must-go for food lovers! read more