From the best focaccia you’ll ever eat to puddings that leave you cooing, everything Rosie Healey cooks here is a delight
, 1321 Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8TL; gloriosaglasgow.com. Small plates £6-£10; large plates £16-£25; desserts £5-£14; wines from £29 a bottle
It is five years since last we saw each other, but it might as well have been yesterday. I am saying hello to an old friend and I am giving them a hug in the only way I know how: with my gob. That’s because my old friend is a wedge of the best focaccia I have ever eaten. It was the best focaccia I had ever eaten when I first tried it back in 2018 at, a five-minute walk away down Glasgow’s Argyle Street. It still holds the title. The crumb is both springy and chewy.
There are roasted cauliflower florets with the salty hit of kalamata olives, as there were before, this time in a buttery sauce with crisply fried garlicky breadcrumbs for texture. There is once more a whole globe artichoke, here generously drenched with a brilliant green chive butter, as though draped in the very essence of chlorophyll. Eating it feels like an act of self-care.
I am eating tonight with a group of food-obsessed friends and they are all absorbed by the details: the crust on that focaccia, the touch of vinegar on the radish tops. At dessert it is the simplest offering, a panna cotta, which has them cooing. It sits on the plate wobbling up at us, as if demanding attention. “She can cook, can’t she,” says one, who knows one end of a panna cotta from another, as she spoons it away. Oh yes, she really can.
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