try glasgow more

Bump! Am up this way end of month for a very short time. Is there anywhere that does decent steak or burgers etc? Don’t judge me, I’m asking for family. Probably won’t get to see much this time around but is there anything else I should see and do this time around if I have a spare couple of hours?

Best steaks I've had in Glasgow are at Tiffneys on Otago St in the west end

bread meats bread do decent burgers in the west end and centre of town

Tiffneys or the Spanish Butcher for steak. Not been there for ages, but Bread Meats Bread has excellent burgers

Ha, xpost mindmeld

the butchershop bar and grill is pretty good for steaks (or at least it was the last time i was there a few years ago) and has a nice view of kelvingrove and the university if you get a window table

Thanks all! If I don’t do any of these this time I will certainly next time cos I really haven’t spent enough time in Glasgow

Tiffneys always look shut when I go past it (admittedly that's mostly on a Saturday afternoon, on my way to Voltaire and Rousseau) and I'm getting this listing of their hours from a Google hit:

Address: 61 Otago St, Glasgow G12 8PQ
Hours:
Monday Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday Closed
Thursday Closed
Friday Closed
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed

If you have a couple of spare hours in the daytime, I would recommend this exhibition of Oscar Marzaroli's Glasgow photography - the gallery is situated near to both Mono and the 13th Note, both of which do pretty decent veggie burgers if you have some non-meat eaters in your party:

http://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/event/oscar-marzaroli

I saw those opening hours too so checked the website and they still appear to be open, only evenings tho and closed Tuesdays

I went into town to go to that Oscar Marzaroli exhibition on Friday but it was shut over the holiday period. We went to the People's Palace instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l85L7hJ0-7U

I love Scotland

I love Sandra.

gyac where did you end up eating in glasgow in the end?

Hey! We didn’t actually end up in Glasgow proper, we were in Troon the whole time. Well, my parents were in Glasgow, I wasn’t. But I want to go back properly, hopefully later this year, so it’ll happen then.

you should try glasgow more imo

Definitely. I was very impressed by the trains while I was there (and found it a bit strange how dead Paisley Gilmour St area was around 7pm).

i’d count yourself lucky that you didn’t receive a more traditional paisley welcome tbf

wee hurrie good in troon

gyac closet golfer confirmed

lol I’m the only member of my immediate family who’s never golfed (deems will consider this confirmation of what he posted elsewhere in the week and he’s right). No golf, just lots of rain and wind. Tbf bg a very kind man in Paisley helped me with my suitcase without saying anything to me!

If you've got a decent description, the police might be able to get you the case back, if that's any consolation.

Holl', bit less o' the slaggin' Paisley aff if ye know whit's good fer ye.

I quite like Troon but my experience of it is mostly lazing around the Marine in a white robe.

Same! They were doing it up while we were there and I hope part of that work is to fix up the window frames, cos they kept the wind itself out but it howled almost the whole time. Enjoyed drinking whisky by the fire downstairs though.

Holl', bit less o' the slaggin' Paisley aff if ye know whit's good fer ye.

Fair dos, big yin, ye're absolved.

This seems neat

pink peacock (די ראָזעווע פּאַווע or di rozeve pave) is a queer, yiddish, anarchist vegan café opening soon in glasgow!

the café will be entirely pay-what-you-can down to £0 and we’ll have a free fridge

(פֿאָדעם אויף ייִדיש ⬆️) pic.twitter.com/VkCwBulVvh

— די ראָזעווע פּאַווע pink peacock (@dirozevepave) February 10, 2020

awesome. wonder if they're linked to this group who are campaigning to save a synagogue in my neighbourhood
https://twitter.com/irnju
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-50808796

sounds great, will keep an eye out for when it opens

Didnt realise there were any significant number of young yiddish speaking Jewish people in Glasgow!

So, it looks like I will be trying Glasgow more, possibly a lot more.

I married Jen, a Perthshire lady, last year (as at least one of you definitely knows) and so signed up to her long-term plan to move back to Scotland - we're moving partly to be nearer her folks, and the politics and climate help a bit too.

We're going to be renting for a bit after we move up, my career is pretty movable, and she's doing a masters in Library Sciences because that's what she's into.

We haven't really decided between the two big cities (NB once we have, I will obviously have to bribe a mod to come back and delete this paragraph) - we'll see where Jen gets work. We'll probably be back and forth a fair bit either way.

I don't know if you know that thing where you can't decide what to do, so you toss a coin and see what you feel about the result? Well, the first few decent job applications have been coming in, and they're all in Edinburgh, and Jen's been "Shit, I suppose I was hoping they'd be in Glasgow".

But either way, I will be trying Glasgow more.

jim, Yiddish revivalism has some currency among certain young Jews for a variety of reasons, including political ones, so Glasgow's as good as anywhere else for it. Of course it is also still the living native tongue of some Orthodox Jewish communities in the US; no idea about the UK. Probably it's in a similar position to Scottish Gaelic in that regard!

xp fucking hell, big move! Congratulations though! When’s it happening?

silby, I am only vaguely aware of this but it’s a diaspora thing right? I know Jewdas have links to resources about it on their site & people can take classes in learning it.

congrats AF (ps edinburgh is bad not good)

^ cosine both of the above points

There's a Jewish primary school in Glasgow, possibly that may account for some young Yiddish speakers - there's a sizeable Jewish community in and around Giffnock where the school is.

(Hi Andrew, you know my answer is "move to Glasgow". So move to Glasgow)

Thanks for the info, silby.

Glasgow is bigger and better and has a more affordable housing market :)

congrats AF, good luck with jobs/the move!

I've had several friends move away from here over the past year or two and another one, arguably the last tbh, just moved up to Glasgow - so perhaps I ought to try Glasgow more (well, at all)

if I do ever make it up to visit then vegan cafés will be v much on the agenda (cafés and food/drink emporia of all sorts for me but friend is vegan) and that Yiddish one sounds cool

Thanks all - we're looking at moving up in May, but nothing's set until we tell the movers.

I'm moving from Stamford Hill, so any ambient Yiddish would make me feel at home!

(TIL learned that at the formation of the Israeli state, secular Jews tended towards supporting Hebrew as a nationwide language to unite the people, while the more religious tended towards Yiddish for the populace, so as to keep Hebrew for sacred matters)

Who knew there was a synagogue in Langside? I've lived in the south side for years and it's the first I've heard of it

irn-ju

Love it

Don’t listen to them Andrew, Dundee is on the up, gets lots of hours of sunlight and less rain than the west coast, is cheap and is close to Glorious Perthshire.

and you didn't even mention the V&A!

(Edinburgh is good btw)

Who knew there was a synagogue in Langside? I've lived in the south side for years and it's the first I've heard of it

I used to live round the corner from it.

Closeness to Perthshire is a carefully modulated variable, less than 60 minutes would have to be looked at very carefully.

We did spend a bunch of time using this toy, as presented by caek on the London Transport thread:

https://app.traveltimeplatform.com/search/0_lng=-4.21754&0_tt=60&0_time=d1581319810182&0_title=Glasgow%2C%20Scotland%2C%20United%20Kingdom&0_lat=55.90551

Both are miles better than London, by some considerable distance.

Also, I once got dumped in the Wetherspoons in Paisley.

I then had to get back to the outskirts of Edinburgh via public transport on a Sunday, which was probably the worse bit tbh.

one for the hypothetical ‘real scotland’ thread

I'm probably overthinking this, but: that wasn't a joke about Stamford Bridge, home of Spurs, who I understand are known by a jolly racial epithet - but rather the nearby-but-less-famous Stamford Hill, which genuinely has a large orthodox Jewish population.

Anyway.

stamford bridge is the home of chelsea