Darcy's - Glasgow

Described as a cafe bar on its website, Darcy's is a stylish yet relaxed venue suitable for a catch up over coffee, a glass of wine or a tasty meal. My mum loves it here and I can tell why. A bit more sophisticated than other cafe bars, it is also slightly pricier but you can tell that the food is of a high quality. It's varied menu offers proper main meals as well as sandwiches and burgers. I chose the club sandwich which seemed expensive at £8.95 but they didn't scrimp on the portions and I couldnt even finish it all. It was very tasty. The service was attentive despite being busy although we were given an incorrect bill and struggled find someone to point this out to which was a bit embarrassing but usually not having someone hanging over you waiting for you to pay and leave would definitely be a positive so I can't fault them for that. With it's classy but cosy decor and a strong sense of identity you don't feel like you are sitting in the middle of a shopping mall at all.

On the bottom floor of Prince's Square, D'Arcy's is my favourite of the restaurants in the centre. It's got a good balance and has an informal atmosphere despite the proper restaurant menu, and even though some may think a shopping centre wouldn't provide the right ambience (especially as the surroundings are obviously a bit deserted later at night), I just like the general feel of the place. During the day it's busy with people having coffees, lunches etc etc but at night it's more of a proper restaurant. I was disappointed to find my grilled salmon and crushed potatoes had been taken from the menu, but the seared sea bass more than made up for it. Many of the eateries in Princes Square are wolves in sheeps clothing and utterly **** despite their location and price, this is one of the good ones though. Highly recommended.

Have eaten here for lunch twice in the past couple of months, both times have found it to be acceptable but nothing special. First visit, the steak sandwich was good, second time, a friend had it and it was a bit fatty and chewy. Second visit I had a burger, which was pretty tasty, but on both occasions, food has been luke warm, which seems odd for freshly cooked food. I wondered if perhaps they are understaffed for busy lunch periods which keeps the food waiting too long to be brought out. Just my experience, perhaps I've just been unlucky. The mocktails are pretty good, very refreshing. Prices are pretty much what you'd expect for Princes Square the pricy side of all right. Staff vary first visit, our waiter was not great in a rush, unfriendly. Second time, the first girl we had was friendly and attentive, but was replaced by someone who was not so hot on service. Overall, it's acceptable, but not special enough for me to hurry back.

Woop Woop Mr sunshine made an appearance so we had to sit outside as soon as this happened in case it was our summer! So on Easter Sunday we stopped off at darcys outside area on Buchanan st where they had a nice wee collection of tables set up. We were just looking for some coffees initially but my aunt then decided to have a sandwich too. They were not quite ready for us when we sat down so we perused the menu and enjoyed the sun. The very nice waitress came over a wee while later and gave us another menu which was this years drinks as opposed to the one we had which was last years so that's a disappointment as they haven't changed the food menu since last year and all of the drinks were up in price! I ordered an Americano and was told it had to come in a takeaway cup for h&s reasons which was fine but at £3 I think this is overpriced. After a 10 15 minute wait my aunts sandwich arrived crayfish on ciabatta and chips which looked nice and was declared as very very good. It was £9 which again I am not sure this was great value. We sat for a while longer to finish our drinks and it really busied up, the annoying thing is that when sat outside potentially eating people are smoking around you not the restaurants fault?! But annoying to me. The waitress was the highlight, she was efficient and friendly and knew what she was doing.

Is it bad that when Yelp told me to review here next I didn't actually know where they were on about?! Anyways, Darcys a restaurant in the bottom of Princess Square. Visited here on Monday night, as it was the closest drinking establishment post dinner in Yo-Sushi, it was bucketing it with rain, so minimum travel distance was crucial. When we arrived, we waited for a good 5 minutes at the wait here sign for a server to appear. Eventually we got seated and given the drinks menus. Not a bad selection of cocktails, I did like the sound of some of the to-share drinks. I ordered a French Martini, my friends Mojitos and Rasberry Mojitos. The drinks did not arrive particularly quickly, in part due to the waitress making all 3 drinks herself. When it came to next orders, I ordered a coffee, my friends got 2 more cocktails. Later on, after receiving our drinks, we got told it was last orders. This was at 9.30pm, at this point we were the only ones left in the restaurant. We said yes to a jug of water, which seemed to result in glares from the waitress. The wait staff then started visibly clearing up around us, emptying the bins, turning lights out in other areas etc. Having seen one of the waitresses change out of her work uniform, it became pretty clear we weren't welcome. We asked for the bill, which ironically seemed to take forever! When asked to put a tenner each on three cards, we were told we couldn't, as this was over the billed amount of 26. Sighs. The drinks were good, but service let it down.