Sebbs
Merchant City | Fire-cooked small plates + vinyl DJs + serious cocktails
Sebbs is your underground spot, both literally and figuratively. It lives in the basement of Margo on Miller Street, and from the second you go down the stairs you feel as far from Glasgowas you get. Cool-girl coded without being try-hard, with vinyl and DJ sets and a dedicated cocktail kitchen that produces a pina colada slush so good you’ll want four. The food is open-fire, globally-influenced small plates — lahmacun-style flatbreads, lamb skewers on garlicky labneh, jerk pork belly — and begs you to try something you’ve never had before. Fancy pakora with tonnes of parmesan? Yes please. It’s in the 2026 Michelin Guide with a Bib Gourmand, so you can dine knowing you’re doing it properly.
Atmosphere ★★★★☆
Drinks value ★★★★☆
Hen-friendly ★★★★☆
Good to know: Bookings run for dining until 10pm, after that it’s drinks-only reservations. So if the night needs to go on, you’re already in the right place.
68 Miller Street, Glasgow, G1 1DT
Mallochio
Merchant City | Italian cicchetti + pasta + pizzette
Malocchio is the Merchant City Italian that’s having a moment right now. It’s lively, but not in the saxophone sense: it’s bright, busy, with lots of plates moving, and a buzz that warrants a bottle and not a glass. Not unlike Sebbs, the concept is small plates — cicchetti, pasta, little pizzette — perfect for the girls with commitment issues. The kitchen sends things as they come, suggesting 2–3 plates per person rule, which is how you end up with four each. The focaccia is incredible and aperitivo cocktails make a girl dinner dangerously open-ended.
Atmosphere ★★★★☆
Drinks value ★★★★☆
Hen-friendly ★★★★☆
Good to know: Open Monday–Sunday 12:00–23:00, walk-ins welcome alongside bookings.
159 Ingram Street, Glasgow, G1 1DW
GaGa
West End | South East Asian small plates + serious cocktails
GaGa is not what you’d expect from the outside, which is arguably the whole point. It’s a South East Asian kitchen and bar — also Michelin Guide-listed — on Dumbarton Road in the West End, with a menu built around bold, punchy flavours. It’s perfect if you want something that isn’t so run of the mill, and the cocktails make it feel like an occasion without the stiffness of one. Interesting food, strong drinks, and a room that gets better as the night goes on.
Atmosphere ★★★★☆
Drinks value ★★★★☆
Hen-friendly ★★★★☆
Good to know: Michelin Guide-listed but completely approachable. Order the prawn toast.
566 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, G11 6RH
Margo
City Centre | Small plates + open kitchen + Michelin Bib Gourmand
Margo is from the team behind Ox and Finch, so you know it’s going to be good. It sits above Sebbs on Miller Street — two floors, semi-industrial aesthetic, terracotta tiles, bespoke furniture by local makers, and an open kitchen that brings a vibe. Come for small plates designed for sharing; leave with the mild embarrassment of having ordered considerably more than intended. The bar is strong enough to carry things if dinner drifts into drinks.
Atmosphere ★★★★☆
Drinks value ★★★★★
Hen-friendly ★★★★☆
Good to know: It’s the restaurant directly above Sebbs, heading downstairs after dinner counts as a plan.
68 Miller Street, Glasgow, G1 1DT
Arta
Merchant City | Spanish tapas + cocktails by candlelight + 3am finish
Arta is three floors of Merchant City theatrics: a tapas restaurant, a Hacienda-style bar where cocktails come by candlelight, and a club underneath that runs until 3am. The food is Spanish tapas and while I wouldn’t say they are worthing writing home about, the vibes make up for it. At 11pm on Saturdays, thousands of petals drop over the main room — which is either exactly your kind of thing or genuinely not, with no in-between. For hen weekends or big groups who want a full-service evening without venue-hopping, Arta does it all in one postcode.
Atmosphere ★★★★★
Drinks value ★★★☆☆
Hen-friendly ★★★★★
Good to know: The Saturday 11pm petal shower is the main event, book for dinner and let the rest of the night take care of itself.
62 Albion Street, Glasgow, G1 1NY
Cuvee
West End | Champagne + natural wine + small plates
Cuvée is upstairs in an old townhouse in the West End, and from the second you’re through the door it reads somewhere between a Parisian drawing room and the wine bar you’ve been waiting for. Exposed brick, gold mirrors, candlelight and a cosy fire. The food is for grazing: croquettas, generous cheese and charcuterie boards, Koffmann fries, smoked salmon. It’s not trying to be Michelin, but it does a great girls’ night.
Atmosphere ★★★★★
Drinks value ★★★★☆
Hen-friendly ★★★★☆
Good to know: No regular bookings — walk-ins only for standard tables, so arriving earlier is smarter on Friday and Saturday nights.
1 Lynedoch Street, Glasgow, G3 6EF
The Noble
City Centre | Elevated pub + cocktails + live music
The Noble is a newer addition, opening in 2025 across from Glasgow Central, and has quietly become a firm favourite in the city centre. It’s a pub in the way that means it has a bar and doesn’t take itself too seriously, not in the way that means sticky floors. Food is small plates and pub classics done carefully: potato skins, chorizo croquettes and a Glasgow tikka pie that is better than it should be. Add live music and you’ve got a winner.
Atmosphere ★★★★☆
Drinks value ★★★★☆
Hen-friendly ★★★★☆
Good to know: Opposite Glasgow Central makes it a good first stop if the group is arriving by train from different places.
16 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, G2 6NU
Saints of Ingram
Merchant City | One of Glasgow’s most beautiful rooms
Saints of Ingram sits inside Hutcheson’s Hall on Ingram Street, which was built in 1805 and has been many things since. Coffee and brunch by day, cocktails and small plates by night, live entertainment at weekends, and a room that feels, well, fancy. I’d say it’s dark academia meets modern Glasgow chic. Highly recommend the scallops with nduja butter and pea purée, bloody Mary mussels, spinach and feta hummus. It’s not reinventing anything, but it’s doing it in a room where the bar is set by the architecture, which is a very comfortable position to be in.
Atmosphere ★★★★☆
Drinks value ★★★☆☆
Hen-friendly ★★★★☆
Good to know: The building is the draw, aim for evening, when the lighting and live entertainment bring it into its own.
158 Ingram Street, Glasgow, G1 1EX
Ubiquitous Chip
West End | Scottish produce + glass-roofed courtyard
The Chip has been going since 1971, and the appeal hasn’t shifted: a glass-roofed courtyard thick with greenery, a fish pond and a Scottish menu that doesn’t need to try too hard. For a girls’ weekend that includes at least one dinner where you’re not shouting over a playlist, this is the one. It’s also where people in Glasgow take out-of-town guests. If anyone in the group hasn’t been before, this is the dinner that demonstrates the city knows exactly what it’s doing.
Atmosphere ★★★★☆
Drinks value ★★☆☆☆
Hen-friendly ★★★☆☆
Good to know: Book well ahead — it fills, and the courtyard is the specific seat worth requesting when you do.
12 Ashton Lane, Glasgow, G12 8SJ
Lennox
West End | Fire-led cooking + open kitchen
Lennox has not opened yet, so we’re speculating that it’s going to be a spot. Replacing Six by Nico on Byres Road in late May 2026, it looks to be the coolest opening this year. It’s another of Nico Simeone’s projects: fire-led cooking anchored around a Japanese barbecue, dry-age fridges for steak and fish visible from the dining room, an open kitchen, and a room with steel, concrete, and raw materials. Industrial, basically. If you’ve ever had a Shoreditch restaurant that just looks cool land on your FYP and wish we had one in Glasgow, this is for you.
Atmosphere ★★★★☆ (early days)
Drinks value ★★★☆☆
Hen-friendly ★★★☆☆
Good to know: Just opened. Book now to be the person who recommended it before everyone else had heard of it.
Byres Road, Glasgow, G11 (formerly Six by Nico)
Sisi Rooftop
Merchant City | Mexican-American sharing plates + panoramic views
Sisi is on the eighth floor of The Social Hub in Merchant City, with a rooftop terrace and panoramic views across the city. It’s Mexican-American inspired small plates – think tostadas, tacos and too many sides – with a cocktail list built for repetition. DJs take over at 10pm and it’s hard not to make the argument to turn dinner into dancing for just a few more hours…
Atmosphere ★★★★★
Drinks value ★★★☆☆
Hen-friendly ★★★★★
Good to know: Restaurant bookings until 10pm; after that, drinks reservations only. If you want the rooftop terrace specifically, say so when you book.
15 Candleriggs, Glasgow, G1 1TQ
Celino’s
West End | Family Italian trattoria + deli since 1982
Celino’s is the anti-fanfare pick. No theatrics, just a very good family-run Italian trattoria on Dumbarton Road that’s been going since 1982. The pasta is reliable, the atmosphere is warm, and the staff are embody the phrase people make Glasgow. If you want a lovely spot that’s unpretentious and great value for money, this is a great option.
Atmosphere ★★★☆☆
Drinks value ★★★★★
Hen-friendly ★★★☆☆
