Crabshakk
1114 Argyle Street, Finnieston, Glasgow, G3 8TD
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A small, always-busy seafood restaurant on Argyle Street in Finnieston, one of the venues most credited with turning that stretch of road into Glasgow's food destination strip. The room seats only a few dozen, so the raw bar at the front (oysters, langoustines) is the fallback for walk-ins when the tables are booked out, and the kitchen runs daily-changing fish depending on what has come in. It is small, loud and genuinely excellent rather than a scene for its own sake.
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