Art Lover’s Café / Sugo / Mackintosh At The Willow 
10 Dumbreck Road / 70 Mitchell Street / 215–217 Sauchiehall Street
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s architectural works offer up a Mack-themed dining trail: breakfast at Bellahouston Park in House For An Art Lover; on to pasta specialist Sugo in the old Herald offices; finish with tea (or fizz) and cakes at the restored Willow Tea Rooms on Sauchiehall Street.

Café Gandolfi
64 Albion Street
Iain Mackenzie brought a photographer’s eye to the interior when he opened this place in 1979. Glasgow School Of Art graduate Tim Stead created the furniture which still impresses today, while John Clark designed the two stained-glass panels.

Òran Mór
Top of Byres Road
Art abounds in this converted church housing restaurants, bars and gig spaces, with Alasdair Gray’s epic ceiling mural towering above. Eclectic menus grounded in Scotland are served in the John Muir restaurant, the Fonn Mór wine bar, and among abundant drams in the whisky bar.

Radisson Red
25 Tunnel Street 
The city’s illustrative credentials are celebrated at this hip hotel, which is covered in works by two Glaswegians: comic artist Frank Quitely and illustrator Adrian McMurchie. Pizzas and bistro dishes dominate, or try a rooftop cocktail.

Ubiquitous Chip / Stravaigin 
12 Ashton Lane / 28 Gibson Street
The 50-year-old Chip serves up inventive Scottish food among Alasdair Gray’s 1970s murals and Michael Lacey’s 40-year celebration artwork, while younger stablemate Stravaigin features work by printmaker Murray Robertson.

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