Gamba Restaurant

Glasgow is much blessed with seafood restaurants and Gamba has to be one of the best. Conveniently located in West George Street, Gamba offers a sophisticated approach to eating out in the city, coupled with excellent service and an attractive menu. There is the customary combined pre-theatre and lunch menu, attractively priced at £12.95 for two courses, £15.95 for three. As well as the a la carte menu there is a series of fixed price menus, a typical one of which offers choices from four starters, four mains and five desserts and might read, Gamba fish soup, fillets of grey mullet with prawns and Auchentoshan parfait with earl grey syrup, followed by coffee and tablet (that's Scottish for fudge, broadly speaking).

The a la carte is more ambitious and might lead off with a salad of sweet pickled herrings with parmesan shavings, beetroot and horseradish dressing, followed by roast cod fillet on a shiitake mushroom fish cream with peas and crayfish tails and culminating in valhrona chocolate tart with maple syrup and sesame seed ice cream. Five house wines kick off at £14.95 and from £3.90 a glass.