urban bar and brasserie

we had a very impressive dinner at urban bar recently with friends, the ability to book via opentable is a very big plus, all restaurants should work with this company. we sat indoors as it was chilly, but there is an outdoor seating area that must be beautiful over summer time. our waitress was very attentive and helpful, the food was very good, its a seasonalmenuthat changes all the time.

given it’s look and location, it was easy to see how those unfamiliar with the city could pass by and be drawn in by it’s cool, attractive exterior. that particular area of glasgow’s city centre is not one that is known for great burgers; however, we were looking to try something a little different and decided to stop by and take advantage of a three course lunchmenu– once we had checked that there was a burger on offer, obviously!

we had the bar foodmenuat lunchtime. could not fault the food, good choice, reasonable prices and quick service. very good !

food was okay, but the experience was pretty poor overall.. there were 10 of us, so we were told that we were a 'large party' and had to pick a fixed pricemenuin advance. the fixed price came to £5-£10 more than if we'd paid for what we'd eaten at the regularmenuprices, and we had significantly less choice.

we were seated right next to a (very loud) piano that made it difficult to carry out conversation whilst we dined.

the service was pretty slow (one of our party had to leave to get his train home before they'd taken the desert orders - and still had to pay for the dessert/coffee he couldn't have!). there was a good 5 minutes between the first of our main courses arriving and the last two turning up.

when the bill turned up we eventually realised we'd been over charged by around a further £30 as we'd been charged separately for tea/coffees that were included in the fixedmenuprice.