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Well I was in Tust last night and was very impressed by how beautiful it has been done. I was particularly impressed by the dry ice getting pumped out behind the gigantic budda...very atmospheric. And it got more so after each cocktail had bee supped.

But what was the building before?

Sharon, I know you have had a bit of a rough weekend.Was it TUSK you were in?
Que Gordon,I think it was the old Waverly cinima,latterly a snooker hall.

hahahaa yeah...tusk!!!

I felt sure it had to be a cinema...but the cocktails....

Gordon probably still nursing a sore head, so I'll fill in here...!

http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~gbarr/cinema ... erley.html

Gary

The pub at my number one spot and has been for over a year now has to be the Ben Nevis on Argyle st in Finnieston. A wall of whisky, contemporary design with traditional materials, great music, friendly bar staff. It's all part of my slow transformation into an old man with a pipe and pint at the bar.

Molendinar wrote:A wall of whisky, contemporary design with traditional materials, great music, friendly bar staff.

Now this sounds like my ideal pub... yet I've never been in...

"Its an old mans pub, we are NOT going there"

Still given my weakness for whisky, its maybe just as well, I fear it could get messy ...easily...

Sharon wrote:

Molendinar wrote:A wall of whisky, contemporary design with traditional materials, great music, friendly bar staff.

Now this sounds like my ideal pub... yet I've never been in...

"Its an old mans pub, we are NOT going there"

Still given my weakness for whisky, its maybe just as well, I fear it could get messy ...easily...

Lots of whisky your thing?

Try the Pot Still on Hope Street.

Molendinar wrote:The pub at my number one spot and has been for over a year now has to be the Ben Nevis on Argyle st in Finnieston. A wall of whisky, contemporary design with traditional materials, great music, friendly bar staff. It's all part of my slow transformation into an old man with a pipe and pint at the bar.

Oh I've been in there, nice pub.

Bit wierd tho, there was an old man syringing guiness into his stomach when I was there!!!!

really? THE man with the syringe... I was starting to think he was an urban myth to be honest. I had heard of him being spotted in the Islay Inn before.. I figured he wouldn't stray from the teuchter triangle, but there you go.

Thank god someone else has heard of him, i was beginning to think i was going a bit doolally

Re the wee debate on pubs and deafening musak on the 'Drinks Night' thread. I wonder if there are many decent pubs in central Glasgow that don't do the loud music bit and where you can have a conversation but are not deathly depressing places to be in. Anyone have any suggestions?

Ok... here's a few suggestions:

Babbities
Mono
Pot Still
The Stae Bar
The Griffin
Waxy's
College Bar
Rab Ha's - prolly too busy
Blackfiars - prolly too busy
Gandolfi
The Rogano for cocktails - an outfit would be required

Please continue this valuable research!!!

The Steps Bar
truly a time warp of a bar in the city centre.
No music,
But Fab decor

Fossil

Thank you folks this is an excellent start... Fossil I know what you mean about the steps I only once drank in it - was taken there by a then-young guy Jim Elder who said his mother'parents owned it?
Any other suggestions and recommendations most welcome.

Vronis, West Nile St
The Tron ,Trongate
The Oriental, Behind St Enoch
Sammy Dows, Next to Queen St
The Ingram Bar, Queen St
Lauders ,Sauchihall St
Maltman, Renfield St

Sharon you had better get a new pair of trainers if you want to go to Rogano