Start from 66 curated places around Glasgow, GB, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Ox and Finch
The restaurant that set the template for modern Glasgow dining: a buzzy open-kitchen room of seasonal Mediterranean small plates built for sharing. It holds a Bib Gourmand and is still where locals take visiting friends for a long, sociable dinner.
Cail Bruich
Glasgow's Michelin-starred fine-dining room on Great Western Road, serving a tasting-menu showcase of Scottish produce in a calm, grown-up West End space. This is the special-occasion booking locals save for.
Trails & outdoors
Kelvingrove Park
The West End's Victorian riverside park, a flat loop along the River Kelvin past the art gallery, a bandstand and a war memorial. The easy go-to walk for a between-museums stroll or a morning run.
Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Gentle paths through the West End gardens and down a wooded bank to the River Kelvin, with the Kibble Palace glasshouse as the centrepiece. Short, easy and pram-friendly, with a hidden ruined railway station as the surprise.
Things to do
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The city's flagship free museum, a Victorian palace whose 22 galleries mix fine art with a Spitfire, natural history and Mackintosh design. The rainy-day default that families and art lovers both happily lose hours in.
The Burrell Collection
A UK Museum of the Year winner in the woods of Pollok Park, showing one collector's eclectic span of tapestries, ceramics, stained glass and Impressionist paintings in a glass pavilion. Indoor culture wrapped in a forest setting.
Landmarks & sights
Glasgow Cathedral
Scotland's only mainland medieval cathedral to survive the Reformation intact, built over the tomb of Saint Mungo. The dark, vaulted lower church beneath the choir is the part that stops people in their tracks.
Glasgow Necropolis
A Victorian garden cemetery on a hill behind the Cathedral, with 3,500 monuments to the merchants and shipbuilders who built the city. It is more open-air sculpture park than spooky graveyard, and the climb pays off with a skyline panorama.