The Old Toll Bar, Kingston, Glasgow

A schlep out from the immediate centre through a few less-than-salubrious streets, this is a beautiful CAMRA Inventory pub though sadly on my Saturday night visit it was so dark I couldn't make out much detail. There’s what looked like a magnificent bar gantry with mirrors, carved stags heads, inlaid claock and barrels with gold trim, based in a single narrow room that spans the building’s frontage. Aimed at the younger crowd, there was thudding music and a fairly hopeless COVID arrangement for getting served, not helped by numbered draft fonts that just say things like ‘stout’ though further details are on a blackboard that's hard to spot in the gloom. Competitively priced foreign bottles advertised so I had a Schofferhofer for 4 quid. It’s worth a trip out if you like interiors but do it during the day if you must.