We always knew this place as 'The Ortak' It later turned out that many letters had fallen off the 'eat in or take away' sign outside.

I have fond memories of the cheese sarbeni. Fond, fond, cheesey memories. Also, my friend had verbals with some prick outside one Halloween, while dressed as Dracula (my friend, not the prick).

Best Kebab’s infamy has made it both a rite of passage and one of the city’s modern myths. There’s the dismal quality of its döner meat (getting a 1.8 star average on TripAdvisor takes some doing).

If you want some fact based citizen journalism- have a look at these local outlets. Give them a follow, they are leading the way in speaking truth to power. Well done @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for highlighting their work. This is a starter pack I’d like to see created.

Fantastic piece on a takeaway I knew well during my first four years in Glasgow.

Ah Best Kebab, what a peculiar place; a sarbeni used to be a student loan payday treat after a night out. It was always fairly ropey, but what’s been happening recently is a shame - as reported by @robbiejourno.bsky.social www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

Is Glasgow’s most notorious takeaway on the brink - and what’s TikTok got to do with it? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/best-kebab-t...

We’re very happy to be name-checked alongside lots of pioneering new local news outlets by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Meet the plucky paper picking a fight with the establishment @theglasgowguardian.bsky.social www.glasgowbell.co.uk/hillhead-rev...

'Gas them all' 'Time to look after our own not everyone else' We can now unmask one of the men behind north Glasgow's saltires and his violent anti-migrant posts. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tartan-team-...

You may have seen saltires flying from lampposts across north Glasgow lately. Well, we've found out that one of the members of the team behind it is a Nazi-sympathiser.

🔔 Follow me up Carmunnock Road and we’ll end up at Mount Florida Bowling Club. The gates are locked and the foliage is dense. This has been the state of affairs for six years. Believe it or not, in the late 2010s, both Cathcart and Mount Florida were in the same sinking boat.

We're delighted to announce that the former Senior Managing Editor of the Washington Post, Cameron Barr, has joined our central editorial team in Manchester as Investigations Editor. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...

🇵🇸 The story of one young scholar’s plight to get from Gaza to Glasgow for his studies. 🧯Another vehicle firebombed in Pollokshields over the weekend - what’s going on? 🙊Plus, West End hospitality gossip, vigilante artwork and yet more vandalism at Langside Halls.

I wrote about this for the @glasgowbell.bsky.social last year... www.glasgowbell.co.uk/a-blueprint-... Here's what the rail network in central Glasgow needs to look something like by 2040:

Is this Glasgow’s — nay the world’s — most prolific curry critic? Curry-Heute has reviewed over a thousand curries across the city. Here are his favourites.

"These are the days you get out of bed for”, says Dr Willie Yeomans... It’s a chilly August morning but it’s dry; in front of us, dozens of tiny salmon are flopping around in large buckets of water.

Have Glasgow’s ‘worst’ event promoters struck again? It's hard it is to run an independent music festival in this economy. But, as another festival is cancelled last minute, is there a pattern? Plus, the Star Bar gets a facelift, and a fact-check on Glasgow’s asylum stats.

St Paul’s Parish Church started the youth forum in 1994 to give young people in Blackhill a safe place to hang out and keep them off the streets. Since 2006, their co-ordinated efforts have seen gang-related violence in the area drop by 97%.

“Braid delights in slowly trapping the men with their own words, steadily tightening his grip as he reveals each grim detail and piece of evidence.” So why did Braid throw a successful career away to become a vigilante? @robbiejourno.bsky.social is on the case www.glasgowbell.co.uk/paedophile-h...

Why has the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society not acted on a report detailing which fire suppression system could best protect Toshie's only church - which is filled with original timber furniture? Read full article below

If God does exist, it’s impossible to imagine why he would smite a man like softly-spoken musician, Pete MacDonald. Yet, over the past five years, MacDonald has faced fire, the demolition of his home & hundreds of thousands in unexpected costs.

Also in today's Glasgow in Brief - exclusively for newsletter subscribers: are Police Scotland the UK only force to be pressing charges under the Terrorism Act, for support of Palestine Action? Five people have been charged in Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Bell has learned.

If God does exist, it’s impossible to imagine why he would smite a man like softly-spoken musician, Pete MacDonald. Yet, over the past five years, MacDonald has faced fire, the demolition of his home & hundreds of thousands in unexpected costs.

🏛️ The owner of the Egyptian Halls has told The Bell he is fighting the council's CPO decision 🚲 A cycling charity and its "lack of clarity as to who is now a validly appointed trustee" 🗣️ Mothers Against Genocide Scotland's pots and pans protests are pickup up steam

Being a member of the Union Bears and Green Brigade is about rivalry and conflict – but it’s also one of the few spaces where young men feel part of a community. Danny Macpherson’s essay on ultras culture in Glasgow👇 www.glasgowbell.co.uk/how-glasgow-...

Thin-skinned, aye. But billionaire, I wouldn't be so certain, Ross ... www.glasgowbell.co.uk/the-easdale-...

"Within four days, they had details of 12 suspected cases with broad similarities, and four further deaths likely linked to the same cause. Something was killing Glasgow’s injecting drug users, and no one could be sure what it was or where it had come from."

🗞️ In our Monday briefing today: ✍️As a veteran activist is arrested, we're asking: is Glasgow's media self-censoring over Palestine? 📸 Plus: the city's top documenter of demolitions gives a New Glasgow Society lecture on Weds 23 July Read below.

Excellent and thoughtful article. It's sad we've lost venues like the ABC, but the point about venues like the Glad Cafe in Shawlands shows that music and culture has spread across the city. At a stretch the fantastic FRETS in Strathaven shows how localised music venues around the city are thriving.

Glasgow’s nightlife is in the “worst state it has been in since 1979”. That’s according to the man behind one of Scotland’s biggest gig promoters, PCL Presents. He also owns Sneaky Pete’s in Edinburgh, and Broadcast.

How is famed food joint Hajar's Shawarma linked to anti-migrant protests in Royston? Eve Livingston investigates how a rumour and a mysterious Facebook account sparked a furore in the Garngad.

Can a new plan rescue the fate of North Laurieston? @calumgrewar.bsky.social is cutting about in the shadow of demolished buildings just south of the Clyde www.glasgowbell.co.uk/laurieston-m...

“an acerbic 20 minutes that captures the ennui and existential dread of modern urban living” - wow thank you @glasgowbell.bsky.social for your kind words about “Good For Her”! www.glasgowbell.co.uk/trnsmt-arres...

Bell briefing out now: lessons from a tenement collapse, satirising the BBC Scotland brogue and attacks on police at TRNSMT www.glasgowbell.co.uk/trnsmt-arres...

A fortnight ago, people in Royston turned out to protest against news a local building was being turned into an “illegal migrant hotel”. The only problem? It was completely false. So what happened? @everebecca.bsky.social investigates www.glasgowbell.co.uk/royston-far-...

We’re throwing a wee perty this evening and we’d love you to come. There’ll be drinks, snacks from Parveen’s, and a chance to go behind some of our stories from the first nine months. There’s still a few tickets left 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/millm...

Five years ago, Neil nearly lost everything he owned. Now, he’s about to start showing tourists around Glasgow - and he couldn’t be happier www.glasgowbell.co.uk/homeless-tou...

“UWS is a unique institution because it gives people like me a chance” Brilliant article that shows how damaging the proposed cuts at UWS will be to students: www.glasgowbell.co.uk/whats-going-... @glasgowbell.bsky.social @ucuscotland.bsky.social @ucuscotpresident.bsky.social

Six years ago, Glasgow's women went on strike and forced the council to settle their equal pay debt. Except they didn't. Weekend read out now, looking at the ticking time bomb that could cost the council more millions.

Does a healthy democracy = boring food culture? That's the theory @robbiejourno.bsky.social is putting forward today in his food themed writer's edition. Plus: pizza updates and the pressing question of: what's Glasgow's signature drink?

Civerinos has been voted the best pizza in Glasgow once again by Deliveroo. Well, our in-house pizza aficionado vehemently disagrees with this honour... Read our high subjective Glasgow pizza rankings and give your take.

"It’s a drizzly Wednesday morning in Paisley and just off the High Street, a coffin is propped nonchalantly against a statue.". A few weeks ago, the University of West Scotland announced plans to 'find' £6.2m: job cuts. But how did they get here?

🗞️Weekend read: Patrick Harvie made the Greens. Ellie Gomersall wants to unseat him. Glasgow's longest serving Green MSP faces a challenge from one of the most prominent - and youngest - activists in the party. What's her vision?

In today's read, Calum analyses the impact of the home report/offers over system - and how the data is predicting Govan is the next spot to get the gentrification treatment.

When home reports were introduced in 2008, they were supposed to add transparency at no extra cost for buyers. Instead, combined with the offers over process, houses in high demand areas are going for way over their valuations.

When home reports were introduced in 2008, they were supposed to add transparency at no extra cost for buyers. Instead, combined with the offers over process, houses in high demand areas are going for way over their valuations.

"Someone once told me a story about a friend of theirs going on a first date on one of Glasgow’s bridges to nowhere. They hit it off so well that they, err, became well-acquainted with each other, right there on the unfinished pedestrian overpass."

I’m working with @glasgowbell.bsky.social this week and on my way to Paisley for a rally about proposed redundancies at UWS. If you’re staff or a student who’ll be there and want to chat - or if you want to catch up separately - give me a DM. You can be anonymous!

Monday briefing out now ft: 📽️ How much money is Glasgow making from Hollywood? 🏠Michelle Mone's swanky Gulf property project is abandoned Plus: we're throwing a party and Shakespeare is back in the botanics