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May 23, 2016
Hello sunshine! The terrace at Art Lover's Cafe.
Hello sunshine! The terrace at Art Lover’s Cafe.

In October, House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park will celebrate its 20th anniversary. At the award-winning Art Lover’s Café, Head Chef Ian Mackie and his team have started the celebrations by launching a new menu and launching a competition called ‘Lunch is on Us’.

The competition will see customers picked at random and Art Lover’s Café will pick up the tab of the winners. We recommend that other establishments follow suit. We can’t think of a better way to ensure that customers are always on their best behaviour with the staff.

New dishes

The new menu has plenty of dishes which sound worth fighting over. Starters include goat’s cheese fondue and shrimp salad with apple, rocket and toasted sesame dressing plus a dish of confit sea trout ballotine, watercress salad and chive soured cream, avocado and cucumber coulis.

Fresh, seasonal and local are the watchwords for the new menu.
Fresh, seasonal and local are the watchwords for the new menu.

Among the new main courses are the roast rump of lamb, confit lamb and potato cake, pea purée with pickled wild mushrooms and lamb jus or the seared sea bream on pancetta Dutch cabbage, all served with a salt cod and chive croquette with Barsac and ginger sauce.

Sunny terrace

Desserts include warm plum frangipane slice with vanilla anglaise and vanilla ice cream and vanilla parfait with poached rhubarb and ginger crumble.

Regular visitors to the Café won’t be disappointed to hear that favourites including the very popular steak sandwich and the West Coast scallops with chorizo and Stornoway black pudding remain.

The Art Lover’s café is open daily from 10am to 5pm, with lunch served from noon to 4pm. As well as 80 covers in the café, there is seating for up to 50 on the outside terrace.

Big Deal on Prosecco afternoon tea

5pm currently have a Big Deal on a sparkling afternoon tea for two at Art Lover’s Café.

£19 will buy you afternoon tea for two with a glass of Prosecco for each diner. Vouchers are valid until the end of June.