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Red leather booths, globe lamps and timber walls in the dining room at Margo.
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Margo

A Merchant City restaurant of sharing plates and bigger dishes for the table, with a kitchen counter, natural wines and a Michelin Bib Gourmand.

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Margo is a restaurant on Miller Street in the Merchant City, with long red leather booths and warm timber walls, and it's one of the loveliest places in the city centre for a long lunch or dinner.

The menu is made for sharing, with small plates such as cured chalkstream trout with tiger milk, Shetland mussels with Breton cider on toast and charred kabocha pumpkin, then bigger dishes like poached hake with Puy lentils, braised feather blade of beef, and a 600g Aberdeen Angus sirloin on the bone for the table. To drink there are cocktails, a freezer martini among them, and a wine list that marks out its natural, organic and biodynamic bottles. The Michelin Guide gives Margo a Bib Gourmand for good cooking at a fair price. Book a table, or a seat at the kitchen counter, through its own site for any day of the week between noon and 10pm. There's a children's menu too, and Sebb's, its basement sister, is just downstairs.

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Before you go

Open every day from noon to 10pm.

Book through its own site, for a table or a seat at the kitchen counter.

Where
68 Miller Street, in the Merchant City, G1 1DT.
Open
Every day, 12pm to 10pm.
Booking
Through its own site, for up to 20; larger parties by email.
Children
Welcome, with a children's menu.
Access
A wheelchair-accessible entrance, seating and toilet.
Phone
0141 739 0882

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
noon–10pm
Tuesday
noon–10pm
Wednesday
noon–10pm
Thursday
noon–10pm
Friday
noon–10pm
Saturday
noon–10pm
Sunday
noon–10pm

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Where it is

On Miller Street in the Merchant City, with Sebb's in its basement, G1 1DT.

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  2. The loft-style dining room with a long bar, brick walls and iron columns.The Spanish ButcherA Spanish-style steakhouse on Miller Street in the Merchant City, cooking Galician beef, Jamón Ibérico and Scottish seafood in a loft-style room.Under a mile 1 min by road
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  6. The City Chambers at dusk, lit along its stone front, the tower above the pediment and the Cenotaph in the foreground.George Square & City ChambersWilliam Young's council headquarters of 1888 along the east side of George Square, marble inside, with free guided tours on weekdays.Under a mile 2 min by road
  7. A long straight Merchant City street of sandstone buildings under a pale pink sky.Merchant CityThe grid of eighteenth-century streets east of Buchanan Street where Glasgow's tobacco merchants traded, now restaurants, bars and shops, with the Tolbooth Steeple of 1626 at its edge.Under a mile 2 min by road
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