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IBÉRICA
Quality Spanish cuisine takes a bow in Glasgow Spanish restaurants are, for the most part, comfortably compartmentalised as just another nationality-themed eating experience, patatas bravas and paella all present and correct. A few of the better ones do, admittedly, rise above the pastiche to offer traditional regional treats sometimes tasted on sun-kissed holidays. But for a good while now Spanish chefs have been among the most innovative and acclaimed in the world: even with Ferran Adrià’s elBulli closed there are three Spanish restaurants in the top 10 of the World’s Best Restaurant list. No other country has more than one. That culinary quality is now starting to seep into our scene, witnessed by the arrival in Glasgow of the striking and boldly designed Ibérica, part of a chain headed up by executive head chef Nacho Manzano, who runs the two-Michelin star restaurant Casa Marcial in the Asturias region of north-west Spain. A further outlet is planned for Edinburgh in 2017. For more on Ibérica’s new Glasgow branch, see page 68. ■ Ibérica, 140 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, ibericarestaurants.com
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