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Location: 17-19 Drury St, Glasgow G2 5AE

Year of Inscription: 2024

Venue Type: City Tavern / Historic Venue / Traditional

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EBG Rating:	7.5/10
Choice/ Quality of Drinks	❤️❤️❤️ 4 cask ales along the left hand side of the bar and decent whisky selection, with other options familiar and mainstream.
Style/ Décor	❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ The longest bar in Scotland in a horseshoe shape along a grand room with ornately decorated glazed tiles on the surrounding walls. A statement venue for its decor that is listed as a building of National Historic Importance.
Atmosphere/ Character	❤️❤️❤️❤️ The surroundings add a considerable degree of character, but the city trade is fairly mainstream and enjoying it will depends on luck and taste. Busy and bustling, you can get chatting to people easily, but such surroundings perhaps could benefit from a little more discernment in places.
Amenities/ Events	❤️❤️❤️❤️ Food, snacks, TV, newspapers
Value For Money	❤️❤️❤️ City centre prices, but not unfamiliar.
Description	A busy, bustling city tavern with a unique horseshoe shaped bar – the longest in Scotland. As you enter most of the trade appears to be at the bar itself, leaning and chatting. However, more space emerges towards the rear of the bar with seating in remarkably opulent surroundings, glazed tiling depicting roman scenes. A listed building of national historic importance, there is enough on show to justify a visit even if other aspects – relatively middling mainstream trade, big screens and clatter of dinner plates let it down. If you don’t see cask ales at first don’t despair, wander down the left side of the horse shoe and you’ll find a tidy selection. The rest, on keg, is more mainstream. The upstairs lounge is largely overflow territory.Overall, while there is room for improvement, it contains good enough drinks, outstanding interior decor and a wide range of amenities to cover a good range of bases here, so we can recommend dropping by. (Added January 2025)