Brutti ma Buoni in Glasgow City

Hands down my favorite restaurant bar in Glasgow. The staff are so friendly and welcoming. The food is always delicious. Great atmosphere. The heated terrace is an added bonus

The place was quite busy with indoor and outdoor seating and I think they were unfortunately understaffed as a result. With only two people serving they actually kept things going well and were really friendly but I felt for them as it was slow at times.The food was a mixed bag. Poutine was delicious but not worth the £9 for the portion in my opinion. The steak vueltas were so overcooked and dry which was a pity as the flavour was nice. Halloumi was tasty but could do with a dip to compliment it. The chickpea stew was lovely.I'd return for drinks as it's a cool wee place but would probably give the food a miss in future to be honest.

Glasgow’s hidden gem! Every time I come here the food is excellent. I also can’t explain how amazing the customer service is - the staff are so lovely and friendly. Took my mum and it’s now her favourite place for food and drinks in Glasgow (she went 4 times in 2 months taking each of her friends). Fab restaurant with great food, brilliant cocktails and amazing staff.

First with the positives. The staff were very accommodating and friendly, making us feel welcome and marking out an area for us to put our pram, and bringing our dog a water bowl. They were very complimentary of our dog and baby, which made us feel all the more welcome. The restaurant wasn't too busy despite it being noon, and they had a heater nearby so despite the terrible cold outside, we never felt it inside. The menu had a good deal of variety, though I wasn't sure what half the items were as there were no expanded descriptions in English or any Latin language. Our combined understanding of Latin languages didn't help much as some of the meal names are eponymous; I can speak fluent Portuguese and my partner Spanish, as well as usable Italian, so we weren't clueless by any regards. If I'm to be extremely pedantic, I'd even say some things were conceptually incorrect, like the 'Moorish' pork skewers; Moors wouldn't likely be eating pork, so they wouldn't likely have a recipe for this. Anyway, I digress. We ordered a portion of Moorish pork skewers, salt and pepper squid rings, an olive mix, deep-friend halloumi, and two portions of peppers de padron (roasted peppers). The pork meat on the skewers smelled a bit like it was going off. My partner has an exceptional nose and agreed. I tasted it and found it kind of bland. Unfortunately there was no salt provided, so I couldn't enhance its flavour and mask the smell/taste. I ended up giving most of the pork to my dog. The skewers were very small portions too. The peppers were very nice and came really quickly, but again the portion size seemed small for the price. The squid surprised us as they came battered, which we hadn't expected. They were quite bland - I had to coat them in the provided lemon and mayonaise to get much joy from them - but they seemed to us quite difficult to chew, rubbery - like they'd come from a frozen source. They weren't any better than something I'd get in Iceland. The olive mix was disappointing; a swathe of ordinary 'mission black' olives (which are ironically more 'American' than European) vastly outnumbering a few of the larger, firmer raw green olives (probably Castelvetranos / Sicillians); we had hoped to have a richer mix (can two types be considered a 'mix'?) e.g. some large greek ones, Kalamata, Cerignolas, Ligurias / Taggiascas. The fried halloumi was tasty, but lacked any additional flavouring to mark it as this restaurant's own / make it more special in some way. We had two cappuccinos; they were exceptionally smooth and tasty. They were, however, very small. The bill came to £40; it seemed a lot given the quality and relatively small portion sizes; we weren't full, but were too disappointed with the menu overall to think of ordering more. The staff were really nice, but we often found ourselves trying to unobtrusively get service, e.g. looking at them to try to make eye contact with them to initiate a request for something (e.g. the order at the start, and the bill at the end; I ended up just going to the bar to ask for it). It seemed they avoided making eye contact. I can tolerate waiting if I know someone is coming (e.g. when they passed our table to invite some new guests in, had they even thrown a glance our way and acknowledged we wanted service, but attended to the other guests first, that would have been okay), but found myself spending a lot of time in the restaurant waiting to be noticed, actively looking out to catch staff (which takes away from time spent concentrating on my partner and in conversation). They lost out on us ordering more drinks because of this. This is a vastly different experience to our travels in Europe and South America, where being 'waited' upon - having waiters - involves an inverse of the dynamic we experienced here; they're watching us, waiting to serve, not the other way around. We were very surprised with the average 4-rating on Google Reviews.

Saw the sign, was intrigued so ordered the mysterious bowl. It's like a salady thing with leaves and things which I'm sure is right up someone's alley but not something I'd usually order. Decent tunes, friendly staff. If the bowl thing in the photo looks like something you'd be in to go for it.

Great service and lovely food! The cheese and bacon croquettes were great!

Amazing wee place. First time visiting and staff were incredible really nice and explained the menu so well. Food was top notch really tasted. Already booked to go back

Really enjoyed the night. The staff were very friendly and knowledgeable. The menu was small but the food was lovely. I will definitely return and recommended.

Enjoyed true Spanish tapas in the courtyard. Well shielded from pedestrians under the parasols. Food is delicious, however we had to remind the waiter to take our order, so we ended up eating more than one hour after we came. We also had to ask to have the table sanitized. Nice thing was to be seated outside while waiting for a table. So you don’t feel like queuing.

We came here for food and drinks - the outside courtyard area was a lovely place to sit and there’s enough space between tables.The food portions are pretty small but the food itself is delicious. Drinks were decent.The service was patchy - when we spoke to a member of the team, they were warm and friendly, but they often walked past as we were trying to get their attention and it took a while between ordering and drinks arriving. I’d put this down to busy post-lockdown rush though - I’d definitely come back.