| Comment | What level chef are you? There's a fair bit of difference in what a head v.s. chef de can afford round here. Also, will you be looking to work in fine dining or something a bit more relaxed? In all honesty, the food scene is a bit weird here.
If you want to push yourself it generally is going to mean working in the west end, as that's where the vast majority of the top restaurants are. Southside central (shawlands / strathbungo / govanhill areas) are obsessed with brunch and pub grub and that trend doesn't seem to be going anywhere. East is similar for now, but still developing. City centre is mostly big corporate ventures, with a few notable exceptions like red onion, two fat ladies at the buttery, and rogano, although to be completely honest that list are all a bit dated. There are, of course, exceptions throughout the city for cuisines of various cultures and ethnicities (partick = delicious asian food), but work in those is generally not the easiest to come by .
so yeah, given all of that, i'd recommend partick and thornwood as up & coming, affordable. with good transport links (subway is cheapest/most reliable mode by far), maybe st georges cross or north kelvinside, and maybe hillhead or Hyndland if you're absolutely ballin'. Hope that's useful (sources: fellow chef) |
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