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Celentano’s, one of Time Out’s favourite restaurants in Glasgow, is on a sort of hiatus right now. After four years, the Michelin-decorated, Italian-style spot was forced to leave its former home at Cathedral House back in December due to the sale of the building. But it won’t be gone for long.
Celentano’s will relaunch at the brand new Arthouse Hotel Glasgow in the spring, though a specific opening date is still TBA. With 60 covers, it’ll have double the capacity of its previous home.
The restaurant launched in Glasgow back in 2021 and within six months was handed a Michelin Bib Gourmand (a more budget friendly version of a Michelin star). Husband and wife team Dean (the head chef) and Anna Parker (the managing director) were inspired by their honeymoon trip to Italy and set out to use the finest, most sustainable Scottish produce to create Italian-esque dishes like linguine with cod cheeks or coffee glazed panela cake.
An announcement of the restaurant’s new incarnation says that it’ll maintain its ‘warm, relaxed atmosphere and Italian-influenced dishes’ but with a new look and an updated but ‘reassuringly familiar’ menu. Beloved signatures like the vegetable agnolotti and malted barley affogato will still be there.
Celentano’s at Arthouse will still cook much of its produce over embers and ensure minimal food waste by prioritising fermentation and preservation methods and nose-to-tail cooking.
Co-owner Anna said: ‘This version of Celentano’s will feel more like us - what we would have envisaged our restaurant like, before we ever opened Celentano’s.
‘Cathedral House was such a great opportunity for us, but there was a limit on how much we could do with the space. This time we are starting with a blank canvas, and building up a brand new restaurant - working with unbelievably creative people who have the same vision as us.’
The hotel itself will be the first hotel from a new British group called Oberland. It’ll be set in a nineteenth century townhouse in the city centre with 76 en-suite bedrooms starting from £99 a night. Oberland is also set to open a new hotel in Manchester later in the year.
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