Fancy eating the very best fish and chips while on a boat? Perhaps one that was recently declared the best restaurant takeaway in Scotland?
Well, a wee trip west of the city to Clydebank should be in order. It's there you will find McMonagle's, one of the most famous chippies in the country that's housed within a restaurant shaped like a boat moored on the Forth and Clyde canal.
The family-run chippy is looked after by general manager Debbie Rose Reilly and her husband Chris, with the boat originally built at a shipyard in Campbelltown by her dad John almost 30 years ago. It is named The Debra Rose after Debbie.
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A favourite of locals for decades, they've also begun to gather a more widespread following thanks to their unique location and design as well as their pioneering "sail-thru" offering, which allows boats on the canal to order and get their food while passing by.
You can actually place your order and pick it up from the back hatch without even having to leave your boat.
However, although their classic suppers including haddock, sausage and haggis, are loved by those dining upstairs in the chic boat restaurant and the casual seating outside, or as a takeaway from downstairs, it's their brilliant creations that have seen people travelling from far and wide just to try.
From innovative favourites like the deep-fried pigs in blankets and 'frickles' (battered pickles) to the more unusual such as their Frice Cream – a Morton's roll filled with ice cream, battered and fried – and their deep-fried battered roll and chips with cheese and curry sauce, they are always coming up with new ideas to keep customers entertained and tastes buds indulged.
Incredibly the boat doesn't float itself, it is actually welded in place with cement but that doesn't stop locals calling it the 'chip boat' and flocking in their hundreds every week.
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