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June 26, 2017
Monty's
Monty’s Bar and Restaurant staff are waiting to welcome customers. Pic: Facebook.

Monty’s Bar and Restaurant is enjoying its first full week of trading. The new venue opened on Glasgow’s Radnor Street at the weekend.

Formerly Montgomery’s Café, the Finnieston venue is just around the corner from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum plus, of course, the Hydro.

Now under new management, the business has had a top-to-toe refurbishment. If the former Montgomery’s was a neighbourhood café, Monty’s has wider plans.

As well as a breakfast menu, there is a weekend brunch offer; a weekday lunch menu; the evening menu; a separate dessert menu and a children’s menu. Ooops, nearly forgot the coffee and cake menu.

Put more succinctly, they have a menu for every meal and those times in between.

Local produce, global flavours

Scottish ingredients are to the fore and the restaurant’s suppliers – ranging from The Fish People to Rodgers Butchers – are all proudly listed.

On the menus, this means options like the Shetland mussels in a white wine, shallots, garlic and cream sauce or the haggis, neeps, rumbledethumps and whisky sauce.

Not that Scottish ingredients have to be used in trad Scottish recipes. Monty’s menus also feature Tunisian lamb pastillas, mutton dopiaza curries and chorizo hash with poached eggs from Corrie Mains.

Monty’s Hangover cure

This being Finnieston, there is a reasonably extensive wine list, craft beers on draught and in cans/bottles, and around a dozen cocktails on offer.

For those looking to get over a particularly long evening, the brunch menu offers a £19 Hangover Cure.

For this, you get the Full Monty breakfast plus a can of cold Irn Bru and a Monty’s Bloody Mary.

And if you want to enjoy the night before the morning after, Monty’s has a mezzanine area which can be booked for private parties. It seats up to 30 people.

All we have to add is that Monty’s is dog-friendly until 6pm.

The 5pm Dining blog wishes them every success.