The Ubiquitous Chip

Food	Service	Atmosphere	Value
4.5	5.5	6.5	4

Last year the Ubiquitous Chip was awarded Taste of Scotland: Best City Restaurant in Scotland. Its wine list is frequently rated as one of the top ten in Britain for quality. It also has a glass roof and trickling pool. The very Scottish menu includes dishes such as
Cauliflower crème caramel studded with Scotch bonnet chillies and a cairnsmore wafer, Perthshire pigeon wrapped in bacon, pearl barley, wild mushroom sauce and rich game sauce and more.

March 2005

The drinks here are really first rate. The cocktails served at the bar - the Wee Pub at the Chip - are well-mixed and inventive, the wine list is varied, of high quality and well-priced.
Alasdair Gray's murals are beautiful.
The food is still good, but not quite so successful. It's often cold, takes a good old while to arrive and is too fussy. The ingredients seem to be well sourced but there's an over-ambitious sauce chef in here somewhere who needs to be told to calm down a bit.

Ian - Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Waiters trained to make you think you are somewhere special and are going to have good food and drink - pretentious. Wine not properly chilled, food decidedly average - expensive for what you are getting.

tony morgan - Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Too many waiting staff, no one in charge.
Food was nice enough for the money, and the desert was very good. However, being attended to by 5(!) different staff led to a rather unrelaxing evening.
I don't expect the Ritz, but untrained staff leaning across tables to replace cutlery is rude in any civilised household, and I don't expect it at one of Glasgow's apparently "decent" restaurants.
Starter of mussels was nothing special, a little bit tasteless I have to say. Maybe they're not in season. The main of chestnut bridie was however very tasty and enjoyable.
The side of braised veg (I was warned it was mixed greens) was pretty disappointing. What's wrong with carrots and potatoes?
Finally, ordering the dessert, we also ordered coffees which we (wrongly) assumed would be served simultaneously.
The hot desert (chocolate torte - very tasty) could not wait, so we ate slowly.
No fewer than 4 waiting staff came to clear our desert away - which wasn't yet finished, only for us to tell each of them that we were waiting for our coffees. No coffee was forthcoming. I eventually had to attract the attention of the most senior looking waitress and tell her we were waiting for our coffees.
This place could be good, and is currently (just) passable. It needs leadership and some kind of focal point for the diners. No offence, but half-a-dozen untrained but polite youngsters haphazardly waiting tables is unacceptable.
2/5

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Was disappointed with the food and service. My pork fillet was over cooked and dry and my fellow diners trilogy of lamb was also overcooked. Service was friendly but very rushed and staff were ill trained about the dishes on offer. However the atmosphere and wine were good.

Em - Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Oh my god! Have you ever been to a restaurant where you had to send back four, I repeat four bottles of wine, both main courses and be so keen to leave that you refused the complimentary desert?



Welcome to The Ubiquitous Chip. For the time being it still has a good reputation in Scotland and my dining partner who recommended it was seething. We could only assume that it has been taken over by the bean counters. The staff are keen to please but ill trained (witness steak knife thrown on to table by rapidly passing waiter) We suspected that something had happened in the cellar because four oxidised bottles – what are the odds on that. My partner wanted a starter as a main and what she got was two starters on one big plate (haggis and mash), my medium rare fillet steak was nuked and it wasn’t fillet steak – both were not served hot.



Fair play they didn’t try to charge us but something very wrong has happened recently here. Weird looking around because the restaurant was full but here and there I caught the odd wince as wine was drunk and perhaps everyone was putting up and shutting up.



Shocking.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

We visited the "Chip" as it tends to be known at Easter and had a very enjoyable evening.
The resturant was practical full with diners of all ages including some well behaved children. Tables are close together without being so jammed in you feel squashed. The lighting just right for reading the menu and examining your fellow diners.
The food was beautifuly served with great attention to detail and the portions good for fine dining. We felt it was better than the very posh French resturant we had tried the night before and the service had just the right balance of friendliness and discretion. We weren't rushed but neither where we left sitting wondering what was happening.
Altogether an excellent choice for a special evening out.

Elizabeth Forbes - Wednesday, May 18, 2005