The restaurant is located within the residential area, the other side of M8 Motorway from Hilton Hotel in Glasgow. Our booking was 6pm and we arrived a little bit early so we decided to go in anyway to have a drink at the bar.
I have been to the Buttery for business dinner as a group; that was a long long long time ago, well long before the restaurant became being part of Two Fat Ladies. I remember waiting staff solemnly carried our main course to our table - each plate was covered with silver dorm/bell shaped food cover called cloche (meaning "bell" in French) to keep the food warm. I remember there were 6 of us sitting around the table and there were 6 waiting staff. When all our plates were placed in front of us, then all 6 waiting staff ceremoniously lifted the cloches simultaneously to reveal our food. I used to love that almost theatrical but somewhat OTT experience. That was the Buttery then.
Anyway, back to the other restaurant for quality cooking at affordable prices. We quickly exited the front door to go around the building and found another entrance for the Shandon Belles.
According to their website, the Shandon Belles is their bistro with a quirky and cosy atmosphere where you will feel right at home, serving simple, honest and well cooked fresh food at great prices.
Well, it does look cosy and has relaxing atmosphere......
Our proscecco arrived! We sipped this whilst perusing the menu to decide what we would have.
We then had wonderful bread whilst waiting for our food to arrive. It was a lovely bread. My husband thought it was a tomato bread and reminded me that I do have new bread maker which has been sitting somewhere in the house collecting dust and that perhaps it could bake a wonderful tomato bread like this.
Anyway, back to the food. For starter, my husband ordered 'whole grilled sardines, garlic butter and mixed leaves'. It does sound good and it did look fab! He did enjoy this.
I wanted to try something vegetarian for starter so I ordered 'chargrilled polenta with pesto marinated beetroot'. Beetroot was really tasty. Polenta was fine - I just don't get polenta in general .... however I still enjoyed the starter.
For main course, we had an option of selecting fillet of Shetland salmon, grilled fillet of coley or fish special of the day with £2.00 supplement, unless we go for a vegetarian option of butternut squash and pea risotto.
Two Fat Ladies are good at fish so we got to order fish. Since we are here, we both decided to order fish special of the day, which was sea bream. All served with roasted vegetables and potatoes.
The fish was lovely, perfectly cooked. We both really enjoyed the fish.
I had 'dark chocolate and strawberry roulade with chocolate sauce'. This was delicious too with lots of chocolate sauce.
Yes, as usual, I did toilet check and it passed my check. The toilet was immaculately clean, which I like, with a picture of mermaids on the wall. There was a basket of white hand towels to wipe your hands instead of industrial paper towels. I kinda like this ... it's rather homely ....
We had a lovely dinner. Well, the voucher was £21 plus £6 for 1/2 bottle of wine, £2 x 2 = £4 for sea bream supplement, £3 x 2 = £6 for dessert and £2 x 2 = £4 for coffees, total £41 plus 2 glasses of proscecco. No bad.
As we came out of the restaurant, we had a quick look at the pre-theatre menu at the Buttery. They do 2 courses for £16.95 and 3 courses for £19.95. Maybe we shall come back and try the Buttery. I doubt they do 'cloche' thing anymore though ...
We decided to go to Malmaison for a drink en route to the train station to go home. Malmaison is not too far so we decided to walk.
We found a walkway that goes across the M8 motorway toward the centre of Glasgow.
In the meantime, the other side of the world in Japan, my sister was also trying to capture super moon from the veranda of her house. I think she did a great job taking this photo!
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| Super Moon - photo by Mariko |
