Bennets, Glasgow’s oldest gay club, has now vanished, and has been replaced by AXM. The original AXM is one of Manchester’s favourite gay clubs, and this is the company’s first foray into the Scottish market. Its Manchester club was named best bar for the North of England 2012 by Boyz magazine, and has also received [...]

Business partners Richard Dubupet, Norbert Cheron and Chef Andrew Stott, trading as Artno Ltd, have taken over the lease at the former MIO on Glasgow’s Hope Street, now called Le Bistro Beaumartin. This marks the first leasehold for the three men, and the 69-cover restaurant also incorporates a separate lounge/bar area, with original bistro tables [...]

The Pourhouse is another coup for Glasgow’s Finnieston area, a neighbourhood with a definite buzz about it. Graham Sutherland’s Urban pub Company are the people behind the new bar opening, employing the design knowhow of Glasgow-based Mast Architecture and Design. David Stable is the Design Director at Mast. Commenting on what they hoped to achieve [...]

Lynnet Leisure certainly know how to surprise you. The latest addition to its Royal Exchange Square premises is a modern, light and airy space in the eaves. What was formerly the company’s office has been turned into Apartment 29. And it is as different from the rest of the 3-storey 19th Century blonde sandstone building [...]

Alan Creevy, of CDLH Leisure & Hospitality Surveyors www.cdlh.co.uk recognised experts in the Hospitality property sector, looks back on 2011 with some surprising revelations on the popularity and growth of Glasgow’s buoyant restaurant sector. Alan Creevy commented, “There is no doubt that the doom and gloom merchants were out in force in 2011. Realistically, there [...]

Glasgow institution The Pot Still is now under new management. Frank Murphy and his family have taken over the Iona Pub lease, and are planning to invest in the pub. It’s a return to the pub trade for father Brian Murphy who formerly owned the Arlington Bar in Woodlands, Rockafella’s in Springburn and The Hyndland [...]

Late last month, Antonio Carluccio paid a visit to Glasgow to celebrate the opening of Carluccio’s Glasgow. It’s the first Scottish outlet for the chain that bears his name. Chief Executive of Carluccio’s, Simon Kossof, revealed that there are 56 Carluccio outlets in the UK, and that initially they had looked at Glasgow, Edinburgh and [...]

Pub Enterprises, the company owned by Paul Burns and Walter Smith, has radically transformed the former Macintosh’s on Glasgow’s Cambridge Street into Jackson’s Drink Mongers. The spacious bar’s new interior is a world away from its previous incarnation with fashionable monochrome wallpaper, exposed brickwork, stylish lighting, gilt edged framed mirrors and black and white pictures. [...]

Roxy 171 is the name of a legendary live music venue in London, and the inspiration behind the new name of the former Liquid Ship on Glasgow’s Great Western Road. It was acquired by Hamish McLean’s Jimmy’s Bar Ltd in December of last year, and the bar closed for a £50k refurbishment for a total [...]

Bennets, on Glasgow’s Glassford Street, is Scotland’s oldest gay club and was just about ready to receive the last rites before divine intervention came in the form of Lynnet Leisure, in the spring of this year. The club was almost a rite of passage for gays of a certain age, but neglect meant it was [...]