Three course on a groupon. The shared platter for starters was a standard, Parmalat ham, prosciutto and garlicy bread was good. The dessert was alson a standard sundea that was also good. My main, being a simple carbonate, was excellent. A simple, 5 ingredients but done to perfection. You can tell a lot about a place by how well they do the easy stuff. This was a great example of well done.
The restaurant itself was well set out, staff attentive but not overbearing. Service as you would expect.
Overall. I would go back.
Lovely. What a lovely place. We rarely venture over the road to Trongate but when we do we always made a note to go to this place. We went on Saturday night. The place was really busy so I would recommend booking. When we arrived there was a queue out the door of people waiting to be shown to their tables. You enter through a curtain and the see the dimly lit restaurant. Everyone looked really happy and to be enjoying their food. Food and service were really good. The only fault was a rather dry pasta main. They also own the attached Cafe E2 and they are joined by a corridor so you can go for a drink there whilst you wait for your table. We would definitely go back to Esca.
Didn't disappoint. Went here with a group of friends, had been meaning to try it out for a while so was pleased to get along. It certainly didn't disapoint and felt that it was everything it was suggesting. Good modern Italian/European menu and food was cook well with very good fresh ingrediants. A good indicator of this was that I had mussles and were of a very good quality and fresh, so flavour was good. Staff were all very good and attentive and knew the menu and specials well. Pretty reasonable pricing and a very good deal on the pre-theatre, especially if you book a table online through agent website. Only critisism is that it got quite hot at times and it wasn't especially warm outside.
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