Stravaigin 2 Ruthven Lane Glasgow Review

Stravaigan 2, Ruthven Lane, Glasgow

The place is small but with a nice bistro type vibe with dark furniture and light walls with the odd advert on the wall for different theme nights coming up in the restaurant.  Think global eat local is the tag line for this restaurant, maybe I just didn't get it with so many different global dishes there was no order to the menu, especially the £9.95 two course menu. .  This was a lunch meeting today so the two course for £9.95 was appealing. Unfortunately with only three starters and three mains to choose from there was little options. One of the three starters was onion bhaji and one of the three mains was curry  I was forced on to the a la carte menu. If i had wanted curry i would have visited the Wee Curry Shop in nearby Ahton Lane. The menu has a good mix of dishes from around the world with mussels and coriander with chilli to start and main courses of Jerk chicken or their homemade haggis !! . I was confused again even with the larger menu. I chose the special of the day to start, a ham hough consommé with Ayrshire bacon and peas with my friend Morag going for the cured trout, I have never seen or Heard of a ham hough consommé but when it arrived it looked wonderful, a dark transparent liquid with thin strips of bacon and a scattering of peas. The soup was fantastic with the salty taste of the ham hough and bacon balanced by the sweetness of the peas. Morags trout looked good if a little on the small side but she said it was fantastic. For the mains we both had the fish supper with homemade tartare sauce which as far as fish and chips go was certainly up there. The batter was perfectly light and crisp with thick cut chips with a nice zing from the hone made tartare. If I had a complaint it would be the portion of fish was a little on the small side but all being said was very good. The young waitress came back with the desert menu and asked with a smile if we had room for deserts, after the small portion on the mains i went for the key lime pie with orange and chilli sorbet with morag going for ice cream with cookies. The desert was definitely the star of the show with the sweetness of the pie working perfectly with the citrus and chilli in the sorbet. A nice enough lunch with really friendly attentive staff and the bill just short of £40.00. There are better restauarants nearby for the money. Rating out of 100 65/100