Osteria Piero is a basement restaurant on the corner of Glasgow’s West Regent Street but it wouldn’t look out of place in a Tuscan village. Hams hang from the ceiling, the walls are covered with pictures of triumphant Italian football teams and the waiting staff are as knowledgeable as they are charming. Piero Sartis is the sort of place where nothing makes the staff smile more than being asked for a recommendation.
Rustic Italian
Glasgow’s Osteria Piero is not trying to be at the cutting edge of contemporary Italian cuisine. Instead, it is all about the Italian kitchen tradition of taking great ingredients and treating them simply to let the flavours speak for themselves, in fact, they have 90 years of tradition behind them. You could try starting with one of the Tagliere, platters of cured meats, cheese, marinated vegetables and seafood or get stuck into some more rustic and homely dishes. Think along the lines of Cosciette d’Agnello al forno, Oven roasted Lamb shanks cooked slowly with a vegetable and cherry tomato soffritto until the meat is falls off the bone. Naturally, Osteria Piero serves a range of pizza or you could explore main courses such as the tomato-based fish soup from the Tuscan town of Viareggio. Packed with langoustine, clams, mussels, squid and prawns, it’s the type of dish that makes Osteria Piero very popular with Glasgow lovers of rustic Italian food.