NEWS
AD HOC OPENS BEFORE ARDNAMURCHAN MOVES IN Julie and Neil Douglas who own Glasgow restaurants Ad Lib and Antipasti have announced a new venture called Ardnamurchan, which is set to open in the former Trader Joes at 325 Hope Street early next year. The new Scottish restaurant and bar will serve food sourced from across the country. The Douglas’ say it will have a “West Highland feel” with lots of raw wood, tweed and a gantry filled with Scottish products, including craft beer, gin and whisky. Work on the £400k refurbishment is scheduled to begin in January. The new layout devised by ARKA Design Studio will include an extended kitchen, a “snug” area and space for live music. Ahead of the January refurbishment, the space is temporarily operating as pop up bar and restaurant Ad Hoc.
Glenuig Inn, which DRAM featured earlier in the year, has been named Micro Business of 2016 for the second time at the recent Vision in Business for the Environment of Scotland (VIBES) awards. The West Coast business, which runs on 100% renewable energy and generates minimal waste, first won the title in 2011. Steve Macfarlane, Glenuig Inn Director, said, “As a 100% renewable business, we believe strongly in doing the right thing across the whole business.”
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GLASGOW GETS SECOND SLICE OF PAESANO Paul Stevenson is rolling out his popular independent pizza joint Paesano Pizza to Glasgow’s West End with the new site scheduled to open in March 2017 at the former Costa Coffee at 471 Great Western Road. A £500k refurbishment of the premises will see the same design and same menu as Paesano’s flagship city centre restaurant on Miller Street, replicated in the new 120-cover restaurant. Paul told DRAM, 4 DRAM DECEMBER 2016
“Miller Street has been a great success so the next logical step was the West End. We’re recreating what we did in Miller Street but the new place is listed so the interior will have a slightly more polished look but still have that industrial feel.” He added, “I’ve always looked at that shop and thought I could do something with it. There’s been a lot of positive reaction on social media. A lot of people are looking forward to it and so are we.”
International burger chain Gourmet Burger Kitchen has opened its second Glasgow restaurant, and third in Scotland, in a newly built unit in Glasgow Fort Shopping Centre. The new 130-cover restaurant opened last month and offers the same menu dominated by handmade burgers as its popular sister venue on Glasgow’s St Vincent Street. It is Gourmet Burger Kitchen’s 78th site worldwide.