After two decades in business, Gamba still remains one of Glasgow’s top seafood restaurants. People are known to travel from across Scotland and beyond to enjoy the restaurant’s creative seafood dishes in an intimate basement setting. The Gamba menu is founded on sustainability, focusing on locally sourced ingredients, which keep people coming back for more, as does their renowned fish soup.
The Gamba menu kicks off with the famous house fish soup consisting of white crab meat, stem ginger, coriander, and prawn dumplings, before continuing on with Lindisfarne rock oysters, yellowfin tuna tartare, Marrbury hot smoked salmon and a king prawn and mango salad.
For your main, options have included grilled lemon sole with baby crayfish, capers, lemon and parsley; seared king scallops with caramelised shallows, Stornoway black pudding, chorizo and maple syrup; and half Scottish lobster with thermidor or garlic butter accompanied by Gamba’s signature chips. While this is, of course, primarily a seafood restaurant, there are meat options available such as a fillet of Scotch beef served with sweet peppers and chestnut mushrooms.
Meanwhile, desserts offer the likes of warm sticky toffee pudding with ginger ice cream and butterscotch, Bakewell tarts, and a frozen chocolate cake with honeycomb ice cream. If you don't care for sweet treats, a dedicated cheese selection has you covered, serving up George Mewes cheeses like Roquefort, camembert, au lait cru, plain Jane cheddar and ragstone, all served with apple and quince.
The Gamba also offers deals like a lunch and pre-theatre menu with three courses, and includes a glass of côtes de gascogne blanc or cabernet sauvignon. On Wednesdays, the restaurant also runs a surf and turf menu for two, offering Scotch fillet steaks with jumbo king prawns, scallop, garlic butter and Gamba's chunky chips. You'll also get a bottle of fiano or mucchietto IGT primitivo del salento.