The Lismore

It is named after a small Hebridean island, and it opened in 1996, long before Partick Cross came back into fashion after the shipyards closed.

Inside it keeps things old-school: dark wood, good beer and a long gantry of whisky, and stained glass windows made by local artists that show scenes from the Highland Clearances, in memory of the Highlanders and islanders whose families were driven off the land and into the city. Music is the other half of it: folk musicians gather for regular sessions. Order a hauf an' a hauf, a half-pint with a nip of whisky, as the old hands do. The Lismore is open every day from eleven in the morning until midnight.