Café XO At Inn Deep
445 Great Western Road
Pop-uppers Café XO took over the kitchen at Inn Deep in March, elevating it from a great bar to an exceptional one. The menu flits around East Asia, showing plenty of imagination and skill, from sandos and rice bowls to tatties, tempuras, braised broth-based veggies and mighty meaty treats.

The Real Wan
10 Clincart Road
‘South-Western Chinese street food café’ is a bit of a mouthful, but you’ll find dishes here you won’t find elsewhere: fried prawn dumplings on a bed of tempura or gloriously sticky wide-ribbon noodles with lurking heat and Szechuan peppercorns.

Sister Midnight
61 King Street 
Flavours zing and pop at the Trongate’s new sandwich shop from Laurie MacMillan, aka Ms Cafe Strange Brew, aka Glasgow’s Brunch Queen. We’re talking focaccia sarnies of mortadella, hot honey and peppers or chicken caesar with crispy onions and an unashamed anchovy dunt. 

Sub Rosa Pizza
Unit 34, Enterprise Park, 147 Drakemire Drive
An unlikely but head-turning pizza joint based in an industrial unit at the edge of Castlemilk. A Detroit feeds two (the cheese-climb frico is majestic, crisp and defies gravity), while round pizzas are thinner, crispy and equally nailed. 

Tropical Café 
51 Bell Street
In an attractive corner spot in the Merchant City, you’ll find excellent bone-in chicken alongside curries, burgers and fish plus nicely done staple rice and peas, sweet potato fries and crispy/gooey plantain slices. Soak up the calypso music and sip a rum cocktail or Red Stripe. All’s good.