Harden's survey result
Summary
“Delicious” Neapolitan-style pizzas are found at this “big, busy restaurant with lots of hustle and bustle, where the staff are welcoming and the service is fast and efficient” – “the relatively short menu with amazing ingredients on top (especially San Marzano tomato sauce and really good mozzarella, all sourced from Italy) results in top-quality pizzas”. There’s a second branch in Glasgow’s West End, and new owners DRG (best-known for Cafe Andaluz) are planning a major expansion: Southside opened in May 2025, with Edinburgh expected to follow soon after – while ratings have held firm at the OG.
Summary
Stop Press – in summer 2024, Paul Stevenson sold this hit pizzeria with a local sibling (plus equally popular pasta-only brand Sugo) to Glasgow-based DRG, whose empire includes Café Andaluz amongst many others, in what was reportedly an eight-figure deal. Fortunately, the new owners have announced that they have no plans to tinker with the winning formula, and for now it seems to be business as usual at this industrially styled venue, meaning that it continues to turn out “exceptional” Neapolitan-style pies from a “buzzy short menu” (almost wholly comprising a list of ten pizzas plus “amazing specials”).
Summary
There’s a “wonderful buzz” around Sugo owner Paul Stevenson’s city-centre pizza joint – also with a West End spin-off; cooked in artisan-built, wood-fired ovens imported from Naples, the pizzas are “exceptional”, while a “limited menu ensures quality” – and is rounded out, in any case, by “always amazing specials” (e.g. pancetta, roasted violet potatoes and fior di latte).
Summary
“You don’t have to go to Naples” to find “great, reasonably priced pizza and excellent ice cream”. This “very buzzy place in the centre of Glasgow” is “setting the standard for great, no-frills pizza”. There is a second branch in the city’s West End, and owner Paul Stevenson also runs pasta specialist Sugo.
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Have you eaten at Paesano Pizza?
94 Miller Street, Glasgow, G1 1DT
Restaurant details
Paesano Pizza Restaurant Diner Reviews
"As good a pizza as I have ever had. Appreciate the concentration on pizza"
Prices
 Drinks |
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| Wine per bottle | £25.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £2.50 |
 Extras |
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| Service | 10.00% |
94 Miller Street, Glasgow, G1 1DT
Opening hours
| Monday | 12 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Tuesday | 12 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Wednesday | 12 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Thursday | 12 pm‑10:30 pm |
| Friday | 12 pm‑11 pm |
| Saturday | 12 pm‑11 pm |
| Sunday | 12 pm‑10:30 pm |
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