Italia Piazza

Italia Piazza occupies a unit inside Princes Square, Glasgow's ornate Victorian shopping mall on Buchanan Street, whose balconied atrium and ironwork galleries give any meal here a certain grandeur by association. The kitchen turns out Italian staples — pizza, pasta, antipasti — to the shopping-centre crowd that flows through the building throughout the day. The setting is more handsome than most food-court alternatives: Princes Square's interior is one of Glasgow's great Victorian set pieces, and the Italian food fits the theatrical surroundings reasonably well. The mall sits at the heart of Buchanan Street, Glasgow's principal retail thoroughfare, putting it within easy reach of the entire city-centre shopping district. A practical choice for lunch or a mid-afternoon break between shops.