Punjabi Charing Cross Indian Restaurant

Punjabi Charing Cross has been serving North Street for over three decades, occupying a former pub whose dark wood bar and gents'-club seating the fraternal co-owners kept intact and warmed with colour and decorative flourishes. The room has a convivial, unhurried atmosphere — leather Chesterfield banquettes, low lighting — that sets it apart from the utilitarian Indian takeaway. The menu is confidently Punjabi: pakoras in chicken, haggis, fish and vegetable varieties; seekh kebab; sea bass; slow-cooked lamb chops. Timeout Glasgow has listed it among the city's recommended restaurants. Haggis pakora is the reliable crowd-pleaser, and the kitchen handles seafood with more care than most comparable houses in Glasgow. Reservation recommended at weekends.