I had lunch at Rogano in Glasgow in April 2010. The restaurant is in Exchange Square, just off Buchanan Street, close to Gallery of Modern Art.  With its Art Deco style interior dating from the 1930s, the Rogano is Glasgow’s oldest surviving restaurant.

Rogano exterior

I did attempt to take some photos of the ocean liner themed interior but due to the dark colours of the walls and respecting the privacy of other diners, I didn’t get any decent shots. The dark brown walls have friezes of sea scenes which you can just make out in the photo below from Flickr.

Rogano, Glasgow interior by IK’s World Trips

If find it hard to describe food in words so I’ll illustrate some of the dishes eaten by me and my companions, Chris Clarkson and Sue Anderson of sunshine.co.uk and Andy Hayes of Sharing Travel Experiences and member of the Europe a la Carte blogging team.

Main courses

One of the daily specials from the a la carte lunch menu was grilled red mullet.

Grilled red mullet

The vegetarian option on the set lunch menu was honey gazed goat’s cheese with orange and roasted pinenuts.

Honey gazed goat’s cheese with orange and roasted pinenuts

I had the grilled trout.  The fish was perfectly cooked, very tender with no bones in evidence.  The sauce was a refreshing contrast to the trout.  I didn’t like the way that the fish was arranged on top of the potato,  skin side up.  I think it would’ve been better to lay the fish around the potato with the skin facing down.

Grilled trout, herb crushed potato with citrus beurre blanc

Selecting a dessert was pretty hard as I was very tempted by the iced Cranachan parfait.

Iced Cranachan parfait with fresh berry compote on shortbread

However I was more than happy with my choice of chocolate brownie served with fudge sauce and wild stawberry ice cream.  The strawberry ice cream actually tasted of strawberries as opposed to the usual rather sweet artificial flavour.  I couldn’t resist the petit fours selection of chocolates served with coffee, although after my dessert you’d have thought my sweet cravings would have been satisfied.

Petit fours to finish

There’s a set lunch menu, which changes every week, with a choice of four starters, four mains and four desserts which costs £16.50 for two courses and £21.50 for three courses.

I’d recommend Rogano if you love seafood and are looking for somewhere unique to eat.

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