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One Seven Ate €15 (178 Kilmarnock Road,
tel: 0141 649 5552) A fab café-bistro located
in Shawlands. The service is fast and friendly, the food
is of a very high standard and the all-day breakfast is
one of the best you’ll find in Glasgow. Not expensive
and good value all round.Crabshakk €50 (1114
Argyle Street, tel: 0141 334 6127) A new restaurant
and a wonderful addition to Glasgow’s culinary
delights, Crabshakk simply has the best seafood
dishes around. The menu boasts grilled langoustine,
roasted squid, crab claws, seared scallops, whole
lobsters, fish soup and a few decent veggie choices.
Molly Malone’s (224 Hope Street, tel: 0141
332 2757) You’ll get a big, warmwelcome at
Molly Malone’s Irish Pub with live music every Friday
and Saturday from 9.30pm. Brilliant cover bands, top
acoustic sets and Celtic music to get you toe tapping
and supping the black gold.
O Satélite €15 (41 Largo da Graça, Graça, tel:
21 886 2679) The best places to eat are often
unpretentious neighbourhood restaurants such as this
one. No prizes for decor, but friendly service and great
fresh fish and leite crème(crème brûlée) more than
make up. Casa do Alentejo €30 (58 Rua Portas de
SantoAntão, tel: 21 340 5140) Really you should come
here for the amazing building, built in styles that range
fromneo-Moorish to Louis XV. But the traditional,
heartyAlentejo dishes aren’t bad either.
Hot Clube (48 Praça da Alegria, tel: 21
361 9740) One of the oldest jazz clubs in
Europe, the Hot Clube was recently devastated by a
fire but has now reopened just down the street. Live
music most nights with the best of Portuguese and
international jazz.
Dream Pills DreamPills is a new shop that
sells therapeutic gums and sweets for almost
Glasgow
Lisbon
West End Glasgow’sWest End has a great
variety of interesting independent shops.
Explore the arcades and lanes and discover some
of Glasgow’s best-kept shopping secrets.Take the
Underground toHillhead and you’re in the heart of Byres
Road and only a fewminutes fromthe city centre.
Hear the Bagpipes It’s the swirl of the kilt
and the skirl of the bagpipes as Glasgow
hosts twomajor music events thismonth.The
enthusiastically named Piping Live! The Glasgow
International Piping Festival (6–12August) draws
40,000 visitors and 8,000 pipers, drummers and
performers to Glasgow for the world’s biggest week
of traditional music.Then, as theWorld Pipe Band
Championships returns to its heartland in Glasgow
Green on 11August, there’s a wonderful opportunity
to hear some of the world’s best pipers.
Evelyn McKechnie
any ailment of body or soul.There are two branches,
one at 20 Rua do Norte in BairroAlto, the other in
Santos at 114Avenida DomCarlos I. Both are open until
2am (tel: 91 614 8642).
MUDE In some ways, Lisbon is on half gas this
month but this is also part of its attraction.As
locals head for the beaches, why not take advantage
of two of the greatest free cultural attractions on
offer: MUDEmuseumof Fashion and Design in Rua da
Augusta (closedMondays) and the Berardo Collection
of ModernArt in Belém. JonathanWeightman
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