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Review by synky

Rating: 4.00
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One of the best things about the Chip is the decor inside. With fairy lights, glass panes and greenery, it really is like an outside garden inside, which is magical and different from the usual. The food is pretty good as well, which you might expect from owners of the Straviagan restaurants and the Liquid Ship. Though this place is really popular, so it can be hard to get a table, and you will pay quite a lot for the excellent scottish/french food. The service is friendly as well. I will definitely visit again for a special occasion, but when someone else is paying!]]> Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:47:02 +0000 /review/uk/glasgow/restaurant/1k6jf7/ubiquitous-chip/160ib81798498469 synky 55.87390274276 -4.2935756876575 http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/glasgow/restaurant/1k6jf7/ubiquitous-chip/119hu7
Review by Promethea

Rating: 3.00
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You have to go here at least once if you live in Glasgow. The food is very nice but very expensive (the Sunday lunch is highly recommended if you feel like a treat, no fry up this). But really it's about the atmosphere which is THE quintessential West End restaurant and bar. You will often see people from the BBC or well known writers there - particularly look out for Alasdair Grey, author of Lanark, who lives nearby and painted the Chip's famous mural of local characters. Also check out the â¬Ümicrochipâ¬" the very small bar down the lane, just opposite the buskers.]]> Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:01:54 +0000 /review/uk/glasgow/restaurant/1k6jf7/ubiquitous-chip/119hu71824674793 Promethea 55.87390274276 -4.2935756876575 http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/glasgow/restaurant/1k6jf7/ubiquitous-chip/1r9fb8
Review by LupeGolightly

Rating: 5.00
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Been at the Chip for two Christmas lunches.

Expensive (always good if your company is paying!), however the food is delicious (although, dont expect a plate full) and the staff friendly and accomodating.

The decor is fresh and the restaurant very hygienic. The toilets well maintained and kept clean. A fresh towel every time you wash your hands - i dread to think their cleaning bill, ha.

Warm atmosphere inside and i would recommend it to anyone going for a romantic meal. As i am sure it would accomodate for family's, i think the food is a little too posh for children.

As it is in the heart of the West End of Glasgow, it is easy to get too (subway stop is HILLHEAD) and have a great choice of pubs to follow on too after your meal.

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Review by Browners

Rating: 5.00
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Last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited up to the Scotland vs. All Blacks up at Murrayfield in Edinburgh with work. The rugby itself was a non event. The mighty All Blacks destroyed the Scotts by about 40 points or so... The food on the other hand was brilliant.

Normally we all think of Scotish food as being atroious. Certainly, Scotland is leagues behind London when it comes to the hospitality and service industries... AA Gill's comments in his article about Dinings in this weekend's Sunday Times capture the mood well:

"Scottish food is even worse. It has become a self-perpetuating stand-up joke, a game of disgusting combinations and one-upmanship. I was offered a sausage and asked, in a get-you-if-youâ¬"re-so-clever sort of way, to guess the mystery ingredient. I failed. If Iâ¬"d gone through the Larousse Gastronomique from A to Z, Iâ¬"d have failed. It was Irn-Bru. Someone is making sausages with too much rusk and Irn-Bru. Why? Do you think weâ¬"re falling short of our E numbers?

What is the point? No, really, what is the point? Presumably, itâ¬"s the same one that inspired haggis lasagne, or a Scottish restaurant to advertise itself on television with the worldâ¬"s largest deep-fried Mars bar. Itâ¬"s a wilful and childish Glasgow kiss to all that poncified, southern, snobby, fine-dining, green-eating gastronomy. Scots are now racing Zimbabweans to an early grave ⬠cutting off their lives to spite their faces.

The Scottish diet might be mitigated if, in its relentlessly fried, sugary, saturated minced-meatiness, it were also dribblingly delicious, utterly McMoreish. But it isnâ¬"t. Itâ¬"s repellent, fouled with imbecilic flavours and mud textures, a thuggish poison with all the variation and nuance of a conversation between drunks on a bench.

And the staggeringly miserable truth is that itâ¬"s despite Scotland having the greatest variety of raw ingredients in the world: cold-water fish that trounce the Mediterraneanâ¬"s; vegetables that are incomparably tastier than Tuscanyâ¬"s; beef thatâ¬"s finer than any in France; lamb thatâ¬"s sweeter than in Scandinavia; game more varied and delicious than in Germany; and more varieties of fruit than Spain. It also has an unprecedented heritage of recipes, ingenuity and skill. Scottish cooks used to be in demand around the world, particularly for their baking and preserves. But all this has been infantilely discarded to make some collective, chippy, ironic joke. The death of Scots cuisine is the most inexplicable suicide in all of civilisation."

After a full day of drinking and a decent hospitality lunch of fillet mignon and salmon terrine we were looking forward to escaping Edinburgh and finishing the weekend off with a slap up meal in Glasgow. My boss Patrick had booked us into a restaurant dubiously titled the Ubiquitous Chip which he had visited 20 years previously.

It's an oasis in what is otherwise a culinary desert. The menu was rich with delicious scottish food. I chose an oxtail sausage followed by roasted pigeon on a pearl barley risotto.

The oxtail sausage was amazing... deeply flavoured and flakily textured with a dark, smooth sauce that caught the light. Only one was more than enough. Oli loved his smoked salmon cured in Laphroaig, whilst Patrick and Andy thought their mini venison haggis was top notch.

My pigeon came with loads of tiny mushrooms, a creamy sauce on one side of the plate and a damsony fruity sauce on the other. The pigeon flesh was so, so, so pink. Bouncy, firm and perfectly cooked. The rich sticky sauce worked perfectly. I savoured every moment hoping that it would last all night. Stunning. Some of the best food I've ever had.

If only the rest of Scotalnd's restaurants were as good as this!

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Review by hsh

Rating: 5.00
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having read about this institution in the good food guide i just had to call in on my 1st visit to Glasgow. 'the wee pub' was the first port of call . we had a starter of tatties and neaps this was excellent and more than enough for lunch. It was tempting to book in for supper but we decieded to bring alone friends for sunday dinner. the saturday menu looked interesting and a good deal at #29.00 for 2 courses image our surprise when we found sunday lunch #18.95 3 courses plus appetiser plus glass of fizz. One of the best meals we have had in a long time. Please make the ffort to visit the ambience is great, the decor lovely and the staff so very friendly.]]> Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:46:23 +0000 /review/uk/glasgow/restaurant/1k6jf7/ubiquitous-chip/1p33q8774775223 hsh 55.87390274276 -4.2935756876575 http://trustedplaces.com/review/uk/glasgow/restaurant/1k6jf7/ubiquitous-chip/1q60x7
Review by Sabrina

Rating: 5.00
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A group of us tried this over New Year's weekend. The dishes were delicious - both classic comfort food and more international dishes. Service was fast and friendly. There are several different levels and areas and the atmosphere is pretty special.
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