THE team behind Ka Pao and Ox and Finch are set to open a new restaurant in Glasgow city centre.
Scottish restaurant group Scoop will open Margo at 68 Miller Street in September.
The restaurant's kitchen will be headed up by Glasgow native Robin Aitken, who first joined Scoop as a chef at Ox and Finch back in 2014.
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After a period of travelling and working abroad, Robin returned to the group as part of the senior team leading Ka Pao Glasgow to its first Michelin Bib Gourmand, and Ox and Finch retaining its Bib Gourmand for the 10th year.
Robin will lead the kitchen in delivering a regularly-evolving menu of snacks, small plates and sharing dishes with a focus on Scottish seafood, meat butchered in-house and bread and pasta made from scratch.
Described as an "evolution of Ox and Finch", Margo will seat 138 diners across an expansive main dining room and upper mezzanine.
A large open kitchen with counter seating will also give guests the opportunity to watch the chefs at work, while banquettes and booths will offer a more intimate dining setting for groups.
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Jonathan MacDonald, managing director of Scoop Restaurants Group, said: "Margo will be an evolution of our first restaurant, Ox and Finch, which has just celebrated its 10th birthday.
"Both restaurants share the same ethos of being relaxed, accessible and fun, alongside a focus on quality.
"Whilst retaining lots of the features that have made Ox and Finch so popular for the last decade, Margo will be bigger and bolder.
"We’ll be pushing things further in the kitchen, baking our own breads, making fresh pastas and also doing some in-house butchery.
"There’ll also be a larger, more adventurous wine list, which the team have been sourcing from a range of great suppliers.
"We’re very excited to be able to share what we’ve been working on with Glasgow, and we’ve also got some exciting plans coming up for Ox and Finch later in the year."
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