STYLE & SUSTENANCE UBIQUITOUS CHIP

To most Glaswegians it is just The Chip, a restaurant so ubiquitous in city guides that the Ubiquitous is now redundant.

- Natasha Radmehr

If you've spent any amount of time in Glasgow then perhaps you've dined there, or at least pressed your nose up against the window while walking along the cobbles of Ashton Lane, where it's located. You'll have spotted groups of salubrious wine-drunk pals laughing together, because that's what folk do when they go to the Ubiquitous Chip. They have a good time.

This is a restaurant with regulars, legions of them, many of whom have frequented it since it opened in 1971. This summer they were temporarily displaced when The Chip closed for a £1.2 million restoration, and some were anxious as to what this would entail. They needn't have worried. “The Ubiquitous Chip has been nurtured and loved for so many years and we wanted to keep that going,” says Claire Kinna of Surface-id, the design studio responsible for the refurb. “We've just enhanced it.”