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Read the review →The restaurant that brought a Michelin star back to Glasgow in 2021, the first in the city in nearly two decades. A family-run room on Great Western Road cooking a Scottish tasting menu with real precision.
The room
Cail Bruich is a small, family-run restaurant on Great Western Road in Glasgow's West End, opened in 2008 by the brothers Chris and Paul Charalambous. In 2021 it won a Michelin star, the first in Glasgow in roughly eighteen years, since Gordon Ramsay's Amaryllis, and has held it since. The star was won under Lorna McNee, the first woman in Scotland to hold one, who now oversees the kitchen as chef director.
The cooking
The format is a Scottish tasting menu that moves with the season: game from the Highlands, seafood off the west coast, a wine list that rewards curiosity. The city waited a long time for a table at this level, and this is the one that ended the wait. The tasting menu runs around 125 pounds, with a shorter five-course lunch on Friday and Saturday.
At a glance
- Cuisine
- Scottish tasting menu
- Recognition
- One Michelin star since 2021, held since
- Setting
- Great Western Road, Glasgow West End
- Run by
- The Charalambous brothers; Lorna McNee, chef director
- Menu
- Tasting from about GBP 125; weekend lunch GBP 100
- Note
- First Michelin star in Glasgow in ~18 years
The TGC view
Cail Bruich is the table that returned Glasgow to the Michelin map, and it remains the city's benchmark. We book it, including the weekend lunch that is the easier way in.
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