Tasty vegan eats in Glasgow, Scotland

In terms of vegan-friendly-ness, Glasgow is at the top. The city has 5 totally vegan restaurants. In fact, according to HappyCow.net, it has 5 vegan restaurants and only 3 vegetarian restaurants! I think one of the reasons why I am so impressed with Glasgow’s vegan food situation is because I wasn’t expecting it to be so awesome. The best part: All the food was really tasty! We ate at 4 of the 5 vegan places and visited the 5th (we had just eaten or we would have tried #5 out too!), and across the board the food was great.

We also noticed that the vibe was very similar from restaurant to restaurant. They all were very comfortable and large, with free wifi, and appeared to have similar handwriting across the chalkboards. From speaking to a waiter at Mono (the final place we tried), it seems that they were all founded by the same guy, but each restaurant’s chef creates his or her own menu.

So I thought I would give you the roundup on Glasgow’s vegan awesomeness, to encourage everyone to flock to Glasgow and get eating!

Saramago:

Saramago is located right next to/part of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow just off of a main walking street. It’s an excellent place to take a break from walking/art-seeing, has free wifi, and tasty food. Also, make sure you at least go into the CCA so you can see the beautiful building. Saramago’s bathrooms are actually in the CCA, so you may see it a bit even if you don’t want to.

As you can see, we ordered lots of food. Which lead to it being a bit expensive… But very tasty!

Stereo:

We actually went to Stereo twice, but only took pictures once. Our biggest comment about Stereo is that it is H-O-T in there! Open some windows, guys! Also, if the pictures below look familiar it is because we posted about Stereo in our “South Side of Glasgow” post!

The 78:

The 78 had our favorite desserts in Glasgow. And the good was stellar, too. But seriously, look at those desserts! Those of you who know me will be shocked to learn that I ordered that chocolate torte. But I ate every single bite of it! The only thing I would have changed was to add more raspberries. But everything is better with more raspberries, right? The chocolate was amazing, the ginger crust was the perfect compliment. A fantastic dessert. And, oh yeah, Dan loved his brownie sundae as well! Also, we forgot to take an exterior shot. Don’t be mad!

Mono:

Mono was the final vegan place we made it to while we were in Glasgow, and I think it may have been my favorite. It probably didn’t hurt that we were there right at opening time so we had the (giant) place more or less to ourselves. It was the perfect place to decompress for a few hours before catching our bus to Liverpool. Great wifi, fantastic food, and an awesome venue that also has music and a cool zine shop and record shop in it. We highly recommend it! I mean, just look at the food…

 

And there was also vegan sticky toffee pudding for dessert, but the picture seems to have disappeared! So you can visualize it in your head. A slab of awesome, gooey cake with a scoop of ice cream on top, drizzled with caramel sauce! Yup. Aren’t you sad I can’t find the picture??

There is one more vegan restaurant in Glasgow, a bar called The Flying Duck, that we simply didn’t have time to visit. But they have vegan bar food, so definitely look it up if you have a craving while in Glasgow.

So those were our awesome eats in Glasgow. I highly recommend Glasgow – and Scotland in general – as a place to visit as a vegan. You will have tons of vegan options throughout Scotland (I promise!), and Scotland is so beautiful it will make your soul hurt.