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The Dhabba

North Indian and Punjabi cooking on Candleriggs since 2002, named after the roadside dhabas of India's highways, and entirely nut-free.

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The Dhabba has cooked North Indian and Punjabi food on Candleriggs in the Merchant City since 2002, and its name comes from the dhabas of northern India, the roadside eating houses found along most of the country's highways.

It sets out to bring the intensity and depth of North Indian cooking to Glasgow, and it has won awards for it.

The menu runs through traditional curries rich with spice and cream, tandoori grills, biryanis, Indian street food and vegetarian favourites, with baskets of breads from the tandoor, naan, roti and paratha, and steel thalis of dal, chickpeas and pickles. There are vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free dishes, and the whole kitchen is nut-free. There is a lunch menu on weekdays, a pre-theatre menu of two or three courses, cocktails from the bar, Indian desserts, and even an Indian afternoon tea. The room is large, stylish and modern, behind long windows glowing orange onto the street. The Dhabba opens every day from half past twelve, or one at the weekend, until half past nine, and ten on Saturday.

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Before you go

The Dhabba opens Monday to Friday from 12.30pm to 9.30pm, Saturday from 1pm to 10pm and Sunday from 1pm to 9.30pm.

Hours
Mon to Fri 12:30 to 21:30; Sat 13:00 to 22:00; Sun 13:00 to 21:30.
Where
44 Candleriggs, G1 1LD.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
12.30pm–9.30pm
Tuesday
12.30pm–9.30pm
Wednesday
12.30pm–9.30pm
Thursday
12.30pm–9.30pm
Friday
12.30pm–9.30pm
Saturday
1pm–10pm
Sunday
1pm–9.30pm

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Where it is

44 Candleriggs, in the Merchant City.

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  3. Man in a suit on stage beside a "God Save The King" banner and vintage casesBritannia PanopticonThe oldest surviving music hall in the world, up a close on Trongate, where Stan Laurel first went on stage in 1906.Under a mile 1 min by road
  4. A long straight Merchant City street of sandstone buildings under a pale pink sky.Merchant CityThe eighteenth-century streets where Glasgow's tobacco merchants traded, with the Tolbooth Steeple of 1626.Under a mile 2 min by road
  5. Spitfire EspressoSpitfire EspressoA coffee roaster's café on the corner of High Street and Bell Street.Under a mile 2 min by road
  6. The bar at Babbity Bowster, dark wooden tables and booths below tall windows.Babbity BowsterA 1790s townhouse by James Adam on Blackfriars Street, rescued in 1985 as a bar, restaurant and hotel.Under a mile 2 min by road
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