| Comment | For whisky, there are two key pubs really: The Pot Still and the Bon Accord.
Cocktails, historically, have never been as much of a 'thing' here as they are in the US, and the weird licensing laws make them a bit tricky, so you probably won't find the quality here really compares very well to the US. You'll get a perfectly *adequate* cocktail, but nothing that's going to be memorable. Having said that, it's worth dropping into Rogano, an original Art Deco restaurant/bar which will otherwise tick all the instagram boxes and does all the classic cocktails of that era.
Similarly, we don't really have the concept of 'dive bars' - we have pubs, and these are the singular thing you can experience in the UK that don't really exist anywhere else other than Ireland and Belgium. Sample the great real ale and craft beer scene. Pubs like the State Bar, Tennent's, Bon Accord (and many others) will give you a real taste of Glasgow. In Merchant City, avoid the generic bars and head for Blackfriars or Babbity Bowster.
And don't worry, there's plenty of americans here, we're used to your volume settings. |
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