Butchershop Roll Out: Serving up breakfast for annual Taxis to Troon

Posted on June 15, 2016 by The Butcher

For over 70 years Glasgow’s taxi drivers have been donating their time, and decorating their taxis, to give Glasgow children a totally awesome day out. It’s practically a city institution at this point and should need no formal introduction, but really,we just love the epic work those guys do over there. 13413157_1494304457251856_7805173097353615413_n

Glasgow Taxi’s have taken children with special educational needs on an annual big day out down the Ayrshire Coast. Today over 300 children along with their parents and carers join the annual taxi outing to Troon. With over 150 taxi drivers lining the streets in their decorated cars the atmosphere was positively buzzing – even Glasgow weather couldn’t put a damper on spirits here!

The annual outing leaves just across the road from us here at The Butchershop,so we wanted to do our small bit and make sure everyone was well fed before hitting the road. With sausages and bacon donated from our suppliers Cairnhill Farms and more tattie scones than you can shake a stick at, our staff handed out over 300 rolls to keep those bellies full for the long drive. Our owners James and Louise also mucked in, donning their Butchershop aprons for the big morning breakfast run. Louise said – “We wanted to show our support and praise the commitment of the taxi drivers involved by serving up bacon and sausage rolls to everyone involved before their journey to the seaside. We are delighted to play our part and we only hope this small gesture will making a positive difference to their day”.

We wish all those involved with the Glasgow Taxi Outing Fund an awesome day, let’s hear it for Glasgow’s epic tax driver force! Find out more about their amazing work here and see you again next year!

Celebrate Super Dad’s at The Butchershop Bar and Grill

Posted on June 3, 2016 by The Butcher

It’s time to celebrate the real Super Heroes and is there a better way to thank your Dad than an awesome Steak dinner at Glasgow’s Best Steakhouse? Yeah, we didn’t think so either! We’ve got our epic cuts on the bone, some insanely good roasts and all that other good stuff that you need for a truly super Father’s Day. So get Dad booked in now and raise one to Dad with The Butchershop Bar and Grill!

Burger Vs Steak Frites Tuesday

Posted on March 4, 2016 by The Butcher

Burger vs Steak Frites

Choose between two house Butchershop burgers, two Scottish dry aged rump steaks or pit them against each otters with Burger vs Steak Frites Tuesday! Your choice of two burgers or steaks are served with skinny fries and a bottle of house white or red wine for £30 per couple. Available from 12pm -10pm every Tuesday.

What will you choose? Are you a burger OR are you a steak? Tuesday’s just got more awesome!

Not available in December, or red letter days such as Valentines Day, Mothers Day, Hogmanay etc

Beef Up Your December

Posted on November 30, 2015 by The Butcher

DECEMBER MEAT MADNESS

It’s about to get crazy at Butchershop HQ… We love Glasgow, and thankfully Glasgow loves us right back. If you’re trying to bag a table to enjoy our beefy goodness this Christmas, give our team a call to check our limited availability before Meat Mania AKA December kicks off!! For those of you locked in and reserved, our team is PUMPED and ready to help you party.

DING, DING, IT’S NEARLY DECEMBER… We’ve got your backs for:

PRESENTS

If we could send you a juicy steak in an envelope, we know you guys and girls would love it but you’ll just have to content yourself with gift vouchers for the time being.

Take the stress out of Christmas shopping and give your friends something they really want. Meat, meat, meat and more meat!!! You know who we’re talking about, we’ve all got that one friend… you know the one? No, not THAT one! The one that’s always talking about food 24/7.

Butchershop gift vouchers are the perfect prezzie for foodie friends and if they want anything else, then they’re probably not your real friend anyway. #BeefBuddies

Purchase our gift certificates online and gift via post, email or text. Or pick them up from your Butchershop server.

HOGMANAY

Is that the sound of New Year bells chiming or is it ‘TOMAHAWK-time’ I hear?

There’s only one way to bring in the bells in Glasgow and it doesn’t involve standing outside in the rain, or sharing the turn of the year with ***ahem*** Glasgow “characters”.

It’ll be TOMAHAWKS aplenty as we countdown to New Year at The Butchershop; with a live DJ, steaks on the grill and fizz-a-flowing, you’ll be glad you choose to celebrate in a cosy restaurant rather than under a cloak of Glasgow drizzle.

View our New Year’s Eve / Hogmanay menu

NEW YEAR’S DAY

Lucozade? Check. Berocca? Check. Irn-Bru? Check.

When you’ve toasted every person you’ve loved, lost, or well.. anyone you’ve ever met! Then the ensuing hangover will need more than bright orange liquids to make it go away.

Obviously, that’s where we come in with our epic New Year’s Day menu packed full of hangover-busting delights. From fried chicken to ribs, to roast sirloin of Border’s beef, we will have something to chase those hangover demons away.

View our New Year’s Day 2016 menu

For reservations contact our team on 0141 339 2999

Superheroes, Steaks and The Flash in Finnieston

Posted on September 23, 2015 by The Butcher

Costumes, Comics and Heroes take over The Butchershop for MCM Comic Con Annual Show at The SECC

Join our superhero steak squad and get in character for the MCM Comic Con (or simply ‘Flash’ your ticket) to get your very own superhero steak dinner this Sunday!

1.2kg TOMAHAWK Steak to share + 2 sides + 2 sauces + bottle of house wine = £70 per ‘Dynamic Duo’.

No superhero story would be complete without a good plot at heart and every guest that dines with us at The Butchershop Bar and Grill will be helping to fundraise for the STV Appeal. A discretionary £1 per table will be added to guests’ bills from today until October 16th with owners James and Louise Rusk matching the total raised to help fight child poverty in Scotland.

Picture courtesy of Jamie Simpson/Herald and Times

Superman, Ironman and Spider-Man – just some of the superheroes you’ll find hiding out at The Butchershop this weekend, where they’ll be using their superpowers to serve supersize Scotch steaks to the expected 30,000 attendees of the sold out MCM Comic Con at the SECC this weekend!

In the spirit of the UK’s largest pop culture and comic memorabilia festival, we’re offering you your own superhero steak dinner – a humongous Flinstone-esqe bone in rib steak aptly known as the Tomahawk with four sides and a bottle of house wine for £70 per couple* to those who join our superhero steak squad and cosplay as a comic character or their favourite TV hero (this Sunday 27th September or show your MCM Comic Con ticket)

Or what about a specially created supercharged elixir – The Flash: a vibrant red concoction that will keep any villain at bay and quench the thirst of your heroes! Made with equal parts Tequila, Chambord, a helping of raspberry purée, mint leaves and zesty lime.

Speaking about the Steak Superhero Squad owner James Rusk of The Butchershop Bar & Grill and Grade A Listed dining venue Hutchesons Bar & Brasserie, says:

“Our staff are our superheroes every day and we wanted to celebrate and have a bit of fun during the September weekend for the masses of people attending Comic Con. Our Tomahawk steak looks as if it’s straight out a comic book so it’s a great fit!

James who has just been announced as Visit Scotland’s Hospitality Hero for Glasgow continues:

“We hope that our guests will join in the cosplay comic spirit and help us fundraise for a great cause at the same time.”

MCM Comic Con is the UK’s largest and most popular Comic Con pop culture event and Memorabilia Collectors show, bringing together the newest game releases, merchandise buying and an opportunity to meet leading actors, directors and animators of favourite shows and comics.

This the third annual Comic Con and this years special guests include Robert Llewellyn who plays Kryten in Red Dwarf, (which starts filming two new series in November), Robert Picardo of Star Trek: Voyager, Karl Yune who played villian Maseo Yamashiro in Arrow, Maile Flanagan, who voices the title role in animated series Naruto, Femi Taylor, who was Jabba The Hutt’s slave dancer in Return of the Jedi and the director and animator of animated series The Rolling Girls, Kotomi Deai and Hiroshi Shimizu.

The Tomahawk steak ranges in size from 1.2g to 2kg and is part of their cuts on the bone colossal steak range, this cut is hung on the bone by their fourth-generation master butcher who hangs the grass-fed Scottish beef for 45 days, allowing each cut the correct amount of time to reach the optimum buttery melt-in-your-mouth flavour level.

What makes these cuts extraordinary is the specialised dry-aging process of hanging cuts on the bone; this process allows for an enhanced ageing period as the bone retains more moisture, delivering that unadulterated taste perfection.

Located at 1055 Sauchiehall Street reservations can be made in advance by calling their reservations team on 0141 339 2999 or booking online.

For more information visit www.butchershopglasgow.com or follow on Twitter @ButchershopGLA or Facebook.com/Butchershopglasgow

*Available Sunday 27th September from 12 noon to 10pm. Cosplay or dress up to claim the offer or show your MCM Comic Con day ticket to your Butchershop server.

Outside Dining in the West End

Posted on June 23, 2014 by The Butcher

Our fabulous new decking furniture got delivered at Butchershop HQ last week and our customers have been loving al fresco dining and drinking in the sunshine. The weather has been spectacular and we think that our decking is the perfect place to dine in the West End.

If you haven’t seen our furniture yet, here it is in all its glory.

Diners’ Choice Winner 2014

Posted on February 26, 2014 by The Butcher

We’ve just been voted on to the 2014 Diners’ Choice list by toptable.com and OpenTable, which means our customers rated our restaurant as one of the best! Thanks to every one of our amazing guests who helped us earn this commendation.

OpenTable also awarded our restaurant one of the best in the UK for service and we would like to give to give a shout out to our hard working awesome staff members too. Here’s to a wonderful 2014!

Butchershop Named Top Ten Restaurant for Steak in the UK

Posted on November 14, 2013 by The Butcher

Our beef is best! We have been hand-picked as one of the UK’s top ten restaurants and the top Scottish restaurant for steak by FavouriteTable.com.

FavouriteTable.com is an online dedicated restaurant resource listing, and they produced the guide to acknowledge the top steak restaurants throughout the UK, hand-picked by their culinary experts from all major UK cities. The online publication has nearly received almost 45,000 views online.

Speaking about the guide James Rusk, owner and vice chairman of the Glasgow Restaurant Association said:

“We are very pleased to have our restaurant and awesome beef recognised as one of the best restaurants in the UK and the best in Scotland. It’s an amazing accolade and we’re proud to have been picked from thousands of other quality restaurants.

“By working hard with our butcher we offer a selection of cuts including our signature steaks – half kilo côte de boeuf and t-bones, with our beef hung on the bone and dry-aged for 21 – 35 days to reach an optimum temperature which achieves our mouth-watering taste. Not only that but our meat is 100% Scotch and reared on natural products in a sustainable environment. For us it comes as no surprise that two Scottish restaurants have made the grade in the guide as our beef is arguably the best in the world.

“At The Butchershop we take the utmost pride in sourcing our beef and our loyal customers are appreciative of our dedication to delivering a consistent high end product. We have customers throughout the UK that regularly make the trip especially to visit us and we’re exceptionally proud of that.”

FavouriteTable.com aims help people decide what to eat, where to eat or how to get there. From the affordable pub or bistro to the finest Michelin starred restaurant in your area, they strive to provide visitors with all the information they may need – profiles, menus, maps, reviews, ratings, contacts and much more.

The full guide is available here: http://www.favouritetable.com/publications/thebestofcollection-beststeaks/

Catena Wine Pairing

Posted on October 15, 2013 by The Butcher

Hallowe’en is going to be a spectacular evening at The Butchershop. We are one of two privileged restaurants in Scotland to have the best Malbec producer in the world – Catena, host a wine pairing evening straight from the vineyards of Bodega Catena Zapata Mendosa, Argentina. This wine speaks for itself as it’s one of the biggest selling Malbecs on the planet.

Our guest host is Carola De La Fuente of Nicolas Catena Zapata winery in Mendoza, Argentina.

Join us for this EXCLUSIVE event at 7pm, 31st October 2013. Book by calling us direct on 0141 339 2999.

Our wine pairing evening:

Enjoy a four course Argentinian-inspired menu with specially selected Catena wines including the premium and outstanding Catena Alta Mendosa.

TO START AMUSE-BOUCHE
Roast plum tomato & basil gazpacho

wine ALAMOS EXTRA BRUT PINOT NOIR CHARDONNAY

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APPETIZER
TIGER PRAWN CEVICHE
Citrus marinated tiger prawns, fresh mango,
tomato, coriander, fresh chilli finished with aged olive oil

wine CATENA ALTA CHARDONNAY

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MAIN
ARGENTINIAN “ASADO”
28 Day dry aged rump of Scotch beef, spiced Argentinian style
sausage, celery salt & garlic rubbed pork loin with homemade chimichurri
wine CATENA ALTA MALBEC

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DESSERT
RICH DARK CHOCOLATE POT
With homemade shortbread
wine CATENA CABERNET SAUVIGNON

Don’t miss out on this exclusive experience and book your table today. Tables are limited for what is going to be a phenomenal night!

Here’s a few interesting facts about Malbec and the Catena winery.

History of Malbec

Malbec was brought to Argentina in 1852 by Frenchman Miguel Pouget.
Experiments with Malbec showed a wonderful adaptation to Mendoza.
Malbec reached a ripeness level never experienced in its native France

Argentina’s Malbec Pioneer

In 1994, Nicolás Catena produces the first Super premium Malbec to be sold internationally.
Nicolás Catena is the first to age Malbec in small French Oak barriques.
Nicolás Catena is the first to create an Argentine Malbec clonal selection and to characterize the behavior of these clones at different elevations and terroirs throughout Mendoza.
Nicolás Catena plants the highest Malbec vineyard in Mendoza in Gualtallary at 5,000 feet elevation.

Hydro Rock Star Dining

Posted on September 26, 2013 by The Butcher

There’s been a transformation in our neck of the woods… That’s right the SSE Hydro is about to officially open with top rocker, Rod Stewart. And we’re welcoming Glasgow’s new home of live entertainment with our ‘Rock Star Dining’ concept.

Rock Star Dining. The Details.

We’re stoked to have The Hydro on our doorstep and to kick off the celebrations next week any of our guests attending the upcoming Rod Stewart concerts*: Monday, 30th September – Friday, 4th October will receive a complimentary ‘D’ya Think I’m Sexy‘ cocktail. Just simply present your concert ticket when dining on our a la carte menu.* That’s what we like to call Rod Star Dining!

D’ya Think I’m Sexy – Rod Star Dining At The Butchershop

*Terms and conditions: Advance booking required on 0141 339 2999. Concert tickets required to receive our concert cocktail. Non-alcoholic cocktail availableas substitute. Valid Sunday to Friday when dining on our a la carte.

More about the SSE Hydro:

The SSE Hydro will play host to an estimated 140 world-class music, comedy, theatre, sport and family entertainment events each year, and is set to become one of the top 5 busiest indoor arenas in the world. The Butchershop is a quick taxi ride or a 12 minute walk to the SSE Hydro and SECC.

Remember and join our Butcherclub to receive more information about Rock Star Dining offers and events

A few upcoming events:

Fleetwood Mac
Bruno Mars
Mickey Flannigan
Proclaimers
MOBO Awards
Alter Bridge
Jessie J
Peter Gabriel
Depeche Mode
Simple Minds