We visit basement bar Sebb’s ahead of the Glasgow Bar Awards 2025

Sebb’s is the latest basement bar to grace the city centre, up for their first round of accolades at the Glasgow Bar Awards on 17 Feb.

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00:00This is Seb's. It is a bar located beneath Margo on 68 Miller Street.

00:07So Seb stands for 68 Basement Bar.

00:10Really kind of trying to break the mould of what a basement bar would be.

00:14You've got a really good food offering where we are showcasing food over fire.

00:18We've got a dedicated cocktail kitchen as well which is show-piecing using unique equipment.

00:23We've got a centrifuge which quite frankly normally gets used for splitting blood in medical purposes.

00:30But we can use it for drinks purposes where we're changing what we can do within that

00:36and doing things like cocktails that are like say milk punches which typically take 10-12 hours to make.

00:41We can do them in 45 minutes because you've got the equipment to do that as well.

00:46It's been great. We've been open for 10 weeks now.

00:48It has opening just before Christmas which was great for us.

00:51It meant that effectively every day was a Saturday.

00:54The word of mouth has really helped push that into the new year as well

00:58where we're still absolutely jam-packed at the weekends.

01:01We're still getting full settings throughout the week as well.

01:05So January hasn't been as quiet as most places would say.

01:10The concept came from Jonathan and Daniel, our directors.

01:14What they really wanted was their bread and butter.

01:17They are chefs and they wanted to create something that's a bit more unique to not only just Glasgow city centre

01:25but just in general taking inspiration from the decor is quite American diner-esque

01:31where we've got big booths, red leather, pots of coffee kicking about, things like that.

01:36But then also on top of that with the menus as well.

01:40We wanted to elevate it and take inspiration from cocktail bars in Paris, New York.

01:46Because it's in a basement and there isn't really much signage for it, it does kind of give that speakeasy element to it.

01:52It's not a speakeasy. It's in a basement, that's all it is.

01:58I think the really key thing that we were trying to drive here is a unique experience

02:02where it's not just about the foods and the drinks which is what you can get.

02:06There are thousands of venues, licensed premises in Glasgow.

02:10Curated experience around food, drink and music.

02:13So at the weekends you've got DJs coming in that are doing curated playlists

02:19and then throughout the week as well we've got DJs that have created playlists for us that we're playing their sets as well.

02:25So it makes it a really unique experience to come in because you're not just getting any other playlist off Spotify

02:35or any other restaurant playlist that you'll hear everywhere else.

02:39It's actually music we've designed and put in for this time.