The team behind Ox and Finch and Ka Pao have today announced plans for a new underground bar and restaurant in Glasgow.
As the city eagerly awaits the opening of Margo restaurant on Miller Street next month, the Scoop Restaurants group has said there is more excitement yet to come as Sebb's begins to take shape downstairs.
The new venue, due to open in November, will seat 68 with a further 12 covers in the private dining room dubbed ‘The Record Room’.
Pairing a dedicated cocktail kitchen with a menu focused on food cooked over fire, Sebb's is set to offer "a destination for daytime sessions and late nights sound tracked by a rotating programme of DJs playing vinyl".
Kieran McKay, Sebb’s General Manager, and Scoop’s head of drinks, Alasdair Shaw, will head up the cocktail programme, having developed a comprehensive list of drinks to be batched in the mixology kitchen, including spritzes, sours, and signature ‘sippers’.
Mckay was one of the original members of the Ox and Finch team aged just 17 in 2014, later joining Ka Pao Glasgow where he would become general manager and play a key role in shaping the cocktail offering.
Shaw joined the group as head of drinks this year, having honed his experience at some of Glasgow’s best bars and restaurants, including award-winning whisky and cocktail pub The Gate.
The kitchen will be led by head chef Danny Carruthers, whose experience at local institutions such as Le Chardon d’Or, combined with his time staging at Acme Fire Cult, Le Gavroche and Lyle’s, has resulted in a "vibrant and flavour-focused cookery style", anchored in precision and French-style technique.
A selection of 'grill-led' dishes prepared over an open flame will include Carlingford oysters with spiced lamb fat and Pakora with ‘Lord of the Hundreds’ cheese and piccalilli followed by larger plates of chicken wings with fermented hot sauce and ranch and Jerk-spiced pork neck with celeriac and apple.
Ideal for sharing will be feasting style options of slow-grilled lamb shoulder or Grilled aubergine and cauliflower, served with salad, pickles, hot sauce and garlic yoghurt or tahini alongside, as well as homemade grilled pitta.
Of the menu, Carruthers said: “The food at Sebb’s will be very bold and packed full of flavour. Full on, in-your-face deliciousness.
"Our main hobby outside of the kitchen is to eat good food made locally, and a lot of the dishes are just things we all really enjoy eating but with a bit of our own identity.
"High quality ingredients, excellent suppliers, great service, attention to detail and simplicity will always be at the forefront of everything we do here.
"I’m very excited for Sebb’s to open and represent what food in Glasgow is all about."
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Designed to have a markedly different identity to the group's Margo restaurant above, the vaulted brick ceiling brings in the underground venue bring an industrial feel to the space, softened by comfortable booth seating and accents of coloured tiles.
Elsewhere, a dedicated viewing window looks onto the mixology room, where visitors will be able to watch the team hard at work creating elements for their cocktail menu with state of the art equipment.
As previously reported by the Herald, Scoop Restaurants began with the opening of Ox and Finch in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove in May 2014.
Founded by chefs Jonathan MacDonald and Daniel Spurr, the eatery was awarded the Michelin Guide’s coveted Bib Gourmand within six months of opening and has retained the award every year since.
In 2020, following a successful residency at SWG3’s Acid bar, Ka Pao opened in the sprawling basement of a category A-listed Botanic Gardens garage located off Byres Road, in the heart of Glasgow’s West End with the team also opening Ka Pao’s second location at Edinburgh’s St James Quarter that same year.
Next will be the opening, Margo next month closely followed by Sebb’s marking the group's first foray into the city centre.
Sebb's will be located at 68 Miller Street in Glasgow.
For more information, sebbs.com or @sebbs_official on Instagram .
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