Glasgow, Italian Restaurant Guide

Phenomenal small Italian deli of over four decades’ standing, a few minutes from Kelvinbridge subway station, which has its “counters of prepared deli produce and cakes and patisserie” but is also a notable destination thanks to its “amazing” cooking – “unfailingly well-prepared pasta in particular”, alongside antipasti and more substantial dishes. “Seemingly busy at all times of the day”, “staff are always so friendly and happy to explain the menu” but “service seems to suffer a bit from being so popular, particularly on the cramped ground floor (downstairs is a little more sedate and, dare I say, comfortable?)”.

“I’ve been back more than 40 times, which says it all!”. These “truly excellent” and “really buzzy” pizza-stops in Glasgow’s city centre and West End are “really hard to beat” – the dough uses both yeast and sourdough and is proved for 48 hours for maximum Neapolitan-style authenticity. In August 2019 they announced a new sibling, Sugo, to launch in the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Herald Building, specialising in fresh homemade pasta.

Sibling to Paesano, the mega-popular pizza place, Sugo serves authentic Italian pastas with the proper regional sauces.