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Vegan
Pizza
Fast food
Beer/Wine
British
Scottish
Cafe, bar and live music venue offering vegan food, local beer, and home-brewed soft drinks. Venue hosts live music, baby discos, art exhibitions, book readings, record fares, beer festivals, resident DJs and foosball. Dog and child friendly. Open Mon-Sun 12:00-22:00.
348 Reviews
First Review by kathyv181
konlish
Points +5742
Was not bad - Edit
This was a large spacious cafe/bar. We had a pizza which was not so nice, some soup and sandwich and some chocolate cake. Food was ok, this place comes 4th on the list for the Vegan cafes in Glascow.
Read morePros: Vegan Baby!, Options
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Braidy
Points +411
Taking Slow Food too literally - Edit
Excellent variety of dishes such as gyros, "fish" and chips (tofu), Turkish pizza etc! Interesting industrial décor with what I think is old brewing equipment, also a small book/record shop. Food was delicious but restaurant had INCREDIBLY slow service; we allocated 90mins for a main course and dessert and still overran (though they reduced the bill accordingly, which was nice). If coming from genteel surroundings, bear in mind that some of the other diners may use *whispers* bad language, which will cause elderly members of your party to tut-tut.
Read morePros: Great food, interesting place
Cons: Very slow service
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SusieSuspicious
Points +84
lovely! - Edit
Been there recently and liked the food, the atmosphere... even my non-vegan colleague had to admint that the food tasted very well. :-)
Read moreWill definitely stop by when I am in Glasgow again.
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SteveT
Points +28
Good food, high energy - Edit
The food was the best pub food in Glasgow and it is a fun place to enjoy it. There is quite a lot of energy in a large open area.
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MuK-UK
Points +262
Great! - Edit
Mono is one of my favourite places to eat in Glasgow. The pizza, burgers and onion rings are great, although the way they do their garlic bread is not the way I'd choose. It can get busy, but the staff have always stayed on top of things and I have only had positive experiences. It's a pub venue, but many of the tables are away from the immediate bar area, however it can still get very busy and loud.
Read morePros: Friendly Efficient Staff, Excellent Food
Cons: Can Get Busy, Can Get Loud
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Gill Kittea
Points +19
My second home. - Edit
I have been coming to Mono for many years now. The only bad experience I have ever had here is that it's been so busy we had to be turned away. Excellent food, with a new range of pizzas which are delicious. Great range of drinks too, with Whole Earth sodas and Bon Soy milk for the coffees, which also use Dear Green beans - a local roasting company. Always a great atmosphere, whether it's a quiet lunch or celebratory dinner with friends. The record and print shops are wonderful bonus too. My favourite cafe bar in my home town.
Read morePros: good atmosphere, excellent food, great record shop
Cons: could maybe do brunch menu
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convertedcow
Points +120
Food ok, nice place to relax - Edit
We've been to Mono several times since it opened. It still serves a good range of drinks and supports microbreweries. The music shop is great and the art space is fairly interesting.
Read moreService, however, is slow and the toilets have seen much, much better days. The food standards can be variable. There are some dishes they do quite well and some pretty badly. Still, we return for nostalgic reasons as we have been going there since our student days more than 10 years ago.
Pros: Good space for creative vegans
Cons: Toilets need refurbishing, Table service could improve
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JaayP420
Points +13
Chill atmosphere with good food - Edit
Ate here today and had the Chickpea, fried potato and sundried tomato salad at a very reasonable price. Will be eating here again soon.
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JonJon
Points +21082
Terrific vegan place! - Edit
One of my favorite vegan places in the world. The food is really good with plenty of different flavours. Their desserts are particularly excellent and the staff is friendly. Moreover, the place has a vinyl shop inside and welcomes regularly some music groups and events. I like this concept of vegan food and good music so much! Highly recommended.
Read morePros: great vegan food including desserts, nice place for food and music, friendly staff
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janetp
Points +40
What a cool space! - Edit
Mono was a great stop in Glasgow and the all vegan menu was amazing. I had the breakfast burrito special with a salad and then the food was so good I couldn't resist ordering dessert -- a gigantic and delicious slice of cheesecake with caramel sauce. I was only in Glasgow for a day but I'm so glad I was able to enjoy a meal here.
Read morePros: Dessert, Cool space, All vegan menu
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LaVanessa
Points +383
Possibly the best vegan food I've had - Edit
This place was wonderful. Excellent, tasty and spicy vegan food, live music, a bar with an excellent beer selection and a 'zine library (although it appeared to be closed during our visit). My partner, an omnivore and beer snob, was even more enthused than I was, because finally we found a place where all the essential elements for a good evening - tasty vegan food, beer, live music - were brought together. Usually one of us suffers (i.e. I eat just chips, or he drinks crappy beer). I had the pea and mint soup and falafel sandwich and my partner had the Malaysian dish. They were *amazing*. We're going to try to recreate the Malaysian dish. My partner rates this the best vegan food he's had (after Aux Vivres in Montreal). The service was a bit slow, and one of the barmen was slightly unpleasant, but otherwise nothing else to complain about.
Read morePros: amazing food, good prices, live music
Cons: service could be improved
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alimac
Points +265
Huge! - Edit
So enjoyed Mono, had a Nasi-Goreng meal, it was steamed and stir fried vegetables cooked to perfection with peanuts and chilli. Spicy enough to be yummy but not too spicy to share with friends! The portions here are huge. Great value home cooked food. They also do micro-brewed lemonade and ginger beer (non alcoholic) at a tasty and great price.
Read morePros: Home cooked food, Huge portions, Home made lemonade (botanic brew)
Cons: can be busy, drinks can be expensive
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imogenmichel
Points +2750
My favourite Glasgow restaurant! - Edit
I love coming here to eat and every time I've been here I've had a fantastic meal. The atmosphere and decor are great, although occasionally service has been a little slow. The food range and quality is great and it makes me so happy that everything is vegan.
Read morePros: Wonderful food, All vegan, Nice atmosphere
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Tigra220
Points +10713
Good vegan food - Edit
I visited Mono on 02July12, on my first day in Glasgow. I hailed a cab here and the area seemed a bit deserted but I felt safe nonetheless. I ordered the veggie burger with cajun chips, as well as the smoked tofu sandwich. I personally, didn't care for the tofu sandwich. Then again, I'm not a tofu fan, but sometimes, if it's cooked in a certain way, I like it... Not this one. However, I loved my veggie burger and fries/chips. There were very tasty. I'm a huge potato fan, and the chips were just delightful. Service was quick and the staff was extremely helpful. She even called a cab for me. Definitely take the time to find this place if you're in Glasgow.
Read morePros: tasty 100% vegan food, helpful staff, inexpensive
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mikebinos
Points +165
best chips! - Edit
I only got 2 things at Mono, a ginger beer and the cajun-spiced chips, but these were the best chips I may have ever eaten! Covered in paprika, cumin, coriander, and pepper. The microbrew ginger beer (non-alcoholic) was also delicious. Didn't get any meal there but would have liked to.
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CLRtraveller
Points +11006
Excellent food - Edit
Fallen-down sign letters above door, so it reads "Mo", very unwelcoming appearance outside, looked closed, but I went closer and noticed the door slightly ajar.
Read moreAll-vegan menu. Starters and sides (3.95) sound delicious: Thai potato cakes with spicy slaw; cauliflower fritters w/ lime yogurt, butterbean and rosemary crostini, etc. Sandwiches, 4.95 (e.g., smoked tofu, pesto mayo, tomato and spinach on toasted bread; bean burrito. Soup & sandwich, 5.50. Mains, 7.50: Risotto with asparagus, peas and lemon; Nasi Goreng (apparently very spicy); Portobello mushroom burger with onion rings, salad, hand-cut chips; roast butternut squash & spinach lasagna. Three desserts (2.95, 3.95): chocolate, orange & cashew brownie with ice cream; cheesecake with caramel & pecans or tequila & lime; ice cream sundae. I had lasagna with greens salad and garlic toast: lentils, squash, chunky tomato sauce, spinach, onion. Second visit I had soup & sandwich: parsnip-carrot-dill soup and smoked tofu sandwich - both very tasty; cheesecake with salted caramel & pecans - creamy and delicious.
Only one local draft: Williams Bros. lager. Also on draft: ginger beer and raspberry and rose lemonade (though not available on my second visit). Some local bottled beers. Board games, band stage beside six beer vats. Cold, drafty. CD & record store to one side.
Pros: delicious food, good menu, spacious
Cons: chilly interior, unwelcoming look from outside
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NickNack1989
Points +36
A Mono-ster of a place - Edit
Excuse the title. But I do love Mono and is definitely one of my favourite places to eat. Great vibe, the record shop included is a great touch, the decoration is fitting. The clientele are very pleasant as well. The food: well I could wax-lyrical for hours about the food in this place. It really is extremely good. Their deserts are to die for, I especially enjoy their beech-smoked tofu sarnie: extremely delicious. The only downside sometimes is the service, but the food and the atmosphere makes up for that. If you have time to kill I would suggest it, but if you're in a rush. Best not to come here, I certainly take everything very slowly when I'm eating at Mono- it seems to fit the place. But very highly recommended. I even took a non-vegan here and they loved it!
Read morePros: Delicious Deserts, Good Value, Good Sized Portions
Cons: Slow Staff
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veggiegoth
Points +217
super! - Edit
at mono, i had a ceasar salad which was so yummy. i also had veggie sausages which were pretty good too. the dressing on the salad was so good. it was huge and i finished it all. nice relaxing outdoor eating in front.
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lastx
Points +38
Great! - Edit
It's a refreshing change to be able to go somewhere and have my pick of the whole menu. The food is decent and it has a good atmosphere, even on a Sunday evening which is when we visited. The Chocolate tart is to die for. Service was excellent also.
Read morePros: Good food, Good service
Cons: Decor is a little higgledy piggledy
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rachell37
Points +43
Decent food, bad menu - Edit
In the interest of full disclosure, Mono is currently recruiting a new head chef, so we possibly caught them at a bad time. We were also informed, upon looking at the menu, that what they list online is completely different from what is currently on offer.
Read moreMy husband ordered the Indian spiced potatoes as a starter - they were quite dry and a bit bland. His bean burger was pretty mushy and had a strong taste of red pepper.
My Caesar salad was actually not that at all - the dressing wasn't Caesar, there wasn't a shred of Romaine lettuce, and it contained cucumber and tomato. I also ordered the garlic dahl with pitta - the pitta was the toughest, chewiest pitta I've ever eaten.
Our friend ordered the black bean chili, and it contained no black beans!
However, the desserts were delicious, and the service was a lot better than the last few times I've been. If you're dining in Glasgow, give Mono a few weeks to replace their chef and go to Stereo or The 78 (Mono's sister restaurants) instead.
Pros: good dessert, friendly staff
Cons: poor menu descriptions
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gr8vegan
Points +2357
oily fat mess but you can probably do better - Edit
We had a bad go of Mono. We were a little off our healthy ordering game because we were escaping a heavy rain storm and ended up with 3 oil covered dishes. They pour white fat sauce on the chili, the burger is fried and the bun was covered in oil on both sides, the blt was a fat bomb as well, there was no escape, we ate two bits of pita with some chili from the bottom of the bowl. The place was pretty neat, though.
Read morePros: good venue
Cons: very oily and fatty food
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natz
Points +133
Highly recommended - Edit
Went here for lunch on Friday 6 Feb 09 and the food was excellent. The whole menu is vegan. We ordered tapas (3 dishes for £7) and a 'bacon' roll with added mushrooms and onions (and came with side salad). Others in the restaurant ordered larger mains and these looked very substantial. Desserts were excellent - cheesecake with choice of toppings (fruit, maple syrup or choc sauce) and apple and raisin crumble with custard, cream or icecream (Swedish Glaze is on offer, in three flavours which was great as our supermarket only stocks vanilla!). Good service and a great place to hang out for hours. I thought the price was very good, came to about £22 for two courses plus a drink each - about the same as we'd pay for lunch anywhere else but far more choice here! The breakfasts looked good and we also popped back the next day for a drink and sampled their organic, home brewed juices (1% alcohol). Very nice, lots of posters showing what's on there (live jazz every Wednesday, for example). Make sure you visit the toilets too just to read the fab grafitti on all the walls! Wish we lived in Glasgow just to go there each week!
Read morePros: Tasty food, great atmosphere, great price
Cons: have to work to find it!
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hack_man
Points +28399
Stay all day and enjoy - Edit
Have been here a few times, the Glasgow vegan group meet here once a month and they've chosen so well in their venue. The food is superb, I must also comment on the delicious vegan desserts. It was the first place that I'd tried scrambled tofu and I make it at home regularly now.
Read moreIt's quite possible to stay here all day: have a light brunch, a few cups of tea perhaps, go for a mooch in the record & CD store inside, have an early dinner, then start on the beers and enjoy a late meal at around 10pm. Such a great place. The amazing Moby even played here in July 2008 on his mini acoustic tour of Scotland.
Pros: ambience, food, cd store inside
Cons: prices
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kathyv181
Points +196
Mono - nice and something special - Edit
I was surprised by this place. It is very big, has a bar and a stage(where live music is performed on some days, there is a DJ on the weekends), it has a tiny selection of things like Tofu and other organic treats to buy and there is a record shop included (separated by a little wall). It has an atmosphere of an alternative place. Very relaxed and you'll also find some Sofas to chill out on :) Many young people and different clients than the "normal" everyday crowd. The menu offers a variety of foods including an "All day breakfast", which is the typical Great Britain breakfast in vegan - YES!
Read moreOrganic Soda is being offered, also Soy latte and Hot chocolate and a variety of bears.
The menu offers 4 different Starters, there are 4 Main Courses and 3 different options for desserts (Apple tart with caramel sauce and cream, cheese cake with optional toppings and 3 scoops of 4 different ice cream flavours) plus, you can check out the blackboard for available cakes.
There are 11 options of Bar foods and Snacks and 4 Options on Take Away Foods.
The food is tasty and the staff is friendly.
I really liked it there - I can recommend it to everyone who is traveling to or through Glasgow!
I'd say the price is rather normal than cheap. One plate of food for 7,50 pounds and 3 pounds for one piece of cheese cake is ok, but not cheap.
Pros: ALL vegan + No smoking :), Many things are organic, Relaxed place + friendly
Cons: Need more space for PRO
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