While most of us are contemplating a festive snooze in front of the telly, some restaurateurs have been working flat out to get their shiny new pleasure palaces open before Christmas. Most in keeping with the spirit of the season is Ingram Wynd, a new venture in the Merchant City whose Victorian theme means it would not seem entirely out of place in a Dickens’ novel.
Game ‘pye’ with suet dumplings, Cullen skink and a high tea menu are all the sort of menu choices that wouldn’t have phased Little Bob Cratchit. Although some of the choices, such as the saddle of rabbit stuffed with haggis, show a slightly more modern twist.
Prints of old Glasgow, a collection of antique teaspoons and a fine selection of parlour palms help create the illusion that you just might have slipped through a hole in the space/time vortex and gone back 150 years.