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Sebb's in Glasgow serves world cuisine from an open kitchen at 68 Miller Street, a basement bar where food is cooked over fire. Michelin awarded it a Bib Gourmand in 2026 for good-quality, good-value cooking.
The menu is built for sharing and cooked in view of the room. The Good Food Guide describes a route through Mediterranean, Jamaican and Indian-Yemeni influences. Rolled lahmacun arrives alongside lamb skewers on garlicky labneh, and jerk pork belly sits on seasoned hispi cabbage with apple. Tandoori chalk stream trout comes with zhoug and hibiscus raita.
Cocktails lean sweet and draw most of the custom, and there is a dedicated cocktail kitchen behind the bar. The wine list includes draught wines by the glass or 500ml carafe, plus craft beers. The room has arched brick, diner-style booths and neon accents, with a DJ booth that takes over once food service ends. Walk-ins are welcome, and some of the walk-in seats are tall stools at the bar.
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Descending the industrial metal stairs to Sebb’s dark, atmospheric basement might evoke the 80s underground hangouts of a mis-spent youth, while the interior is all arched brick tunnels with diner-style booths and neon/crimson accents. The name is an acronym for its commercial address on Miller Street (Sixty Eight Basement Bar) and this edgy younger sibling of Margo upstairs is the latest addition to Scoop restaurants’ on-trend stable of informal small plate offerings – this time with the addition of fire. The open kitchen offers a gallop through a dizzying array of global street-food influences. Luckily, the pace and range is backed up by culinary skill, quality ingredients and full-on flavour. Kick off in the Med with rolled lahmacun flatbreads or well-spiced lamb skewers atop garlicky labneh. Hop over to Jamaica with nicely caramelised jerk pork belly on seasoned hispi cabbage and apple or take in the unusual but tasty Indian-Yemeni mash-up of tandoori chalk stream trout with pokey zhoug and soothing hibiscus raita. After such a varied smörgåsbord of delights, dessert is a simple affair – either barbecued plums with coconut yoghurt or the house tiramasu. Cocktails (towards the sweeter end) appear to be the draw for most punters, though craft beers are also quaffed and there's an interesting collection of draught wines by the glass or 500ml carafe, including an excellent skin-contact rosé from Puglia. Personable young staff dart back and forth, and the conversational buzz is amplified by the vaulted ceiling (a bit like the whispering gallery at St Paul's Cathedral), while a cunningly integrated DJ booth brings vinyl sounds to the mix as food service gives way to late-night drinks. It’s certainly fun, fresh, flavoursome and frenetic – although that might not suit everyone.
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