Italian Kitchen, The

Glasgow may be already teeming with Italian restaurants and with a name like Italian Kitchen one certainly does expect an all-pervading sense of rusticity, but step inside and you'll be surprised. The restaurant's clean lines with neatly arranged photo frames and cosy booth seating, for those seeking solitude, completes the picture of an upmarket, yet homely kind of place.

Good Italian cuisine is all about fresh ingredients and the kitchen believes in preparing their own sauces and breads daily, so why not start with a crostini topped with smoked salmon and mascarpone and served with tomato and chive vinaigrette. For main course it could be a daube of beef slowly braised in a rich red wine sauce or chicken supreme stuffed with mozzarella di bufala wrapped in Parma ham in a rich Marsala wine sauce.

There is also a pre-theatre menu for those who'd like to catch up on a quick meal before heading out to the shows.