The Finnieston
A seafood restaurant and gin bar in a small blue building on Argyle Street, a drovers' tavern around 1800, with over sixty gins.
On the busy stretch of Argyle Street through Finnieston stands a small blue building, dwarfed by the tall tenements on either side.
It began life around 1800 as a drovers' tavern, and over the years a cabinet maker, a hotelier and even a dairy farmer have called it home. Today it is The Finnieston, a seafood restaurant and one of the city's best gin bars.
The kitchen serves only seasonal, sustainable Scottish seafood, with local produce alongside: oysters from the oyster bar, bowls of mussels with bread, langoustines and seafood platters piled with shellfish, and beer-battered fish and chips with peas. The bar holds more than sixty gins, and its award-winning bartenders make cocktails from them, with champagne and beer too. The rooms are low, candlelit and full of old stone and dark wood, with snugs to tuck into, and there is a beer garden out the back. The Finnieston opens every day from noon until midnight, and one in the morning on Friday and Saturday.
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The Finnieston opens every day from noon until midnight, and until 1am on Friday and Saturday.
- Hours
- Sun to Thu 12:00 to 24:00; Fri and Sat 12:00 to 01:00.
- Where
- 1125 Argyle Street, G3 8ND.
Opening hours
Their website- Monday
- noon–midnight
- Tuesday
- noon–midnight
- Wednesday
- noon–midnight
- Thursday
- noon–midnight
- Friday
- noon–1am
- Saturday
- noon–1am
- Sunday
- noon–midnight
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