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July 6, 2016
A dish from the new Horn Please restaurant.
A dish from the new Horn Please restaurant.

There is a handful of new openings on the horizon in Glasgow.

First up, we have Horn Please on Berkeley Street which promises to offer a ‘new concept of Indian cuisine’ when it opens to the public on Friday.

Before we get to the food, we should really deal with the name. Apparently, Horn Please is what many an Indian truck has painted on its rear and side.

The idea is that anyone who wants to overtake should honk so the truck driver knows that they are there.

To be honest, we were sort of hoping that the entire thing would be a bona homage to the Sixties radio comedy series Round the Horne but, regrettably, one can’t have everything.

Truck art

We’ll bring you menu details as we get them.

Modelling a restaurant around truck art might suggest that the kitchen will be firing out street food or truck stop/dhaba dishes but we’re not so sure.

Their Facebook page says they will be offering an ‘amalgamation of traditional global cuisine with Indian influences and contemporary presentation’ so perhaps some sort of global/Indian fusion is on the cards.

Horn Please sits just underneath Cubatas which offers Spanish tapas with an occasional nod to more global flavours. Perhaps Horn Please will develop that a little further.

Tuk Tuk to travel

We’re not sure if we have already mentioned this but, on a broadly similar note, Edinburgh’s Tuk Tuk restaurant has announced that they will open in Glasgow in the autumn.

The Edinburgh Tuk Tuk offers Indian street food.

Baffo baffles

We should also mention Baffo which is taking shape on Argyle Street in the former Pelican Bar site.

Baffo says it will offer ‘a new way to eat pizza’, an idea which has certainly had our minds racing.

Baffo is Italian for moustache but we are fairly confident that the new way to eat pizza won’t involve sieving it through a stick-on ‘tache.

Although we would pay good money to watch that.

Given the sudden uptick in new pizzerias in Glasgow, is it safe to say that pizza will be this year’s burger?