Italian · Glasgow
Tucked near Merchant City, this is a proper sit-down Italian that manages to be smart without being precious about children — high chairs are there, the buggy gets in, and there are tables outside when you'd rather not be indoors. The lighting is warm and the room genuinely handsome, though it fills up fast and a Saturday night can feel hurried: food sometimes lands all at once, and staff move at pace when it's full. Book if you can. What keeps families coming back is the cooking — the seafood ravioli, spaghetti carbonara, calamari and the garlic focaccia get named again and again, and the king prawn gamberoni is a good starter to share. Two courses and drinks lands around £30 a head. One family arriving without a reservation said they were "greeted like family".
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