there is a wee curry house on ashton lane just opposite the ubiquitous chip. i like it - unpretentious and reasonably priced. pub grub and beer at tennents bar on byres road is good - better than at oran mor (though that is a beautiful bar) opposite the botanics. once you've sat around the kibble palace and watched the very varied and happily relaxed people on the grass you can wander along to see the mighty partick thistle at firhill. you can get a horrible but free pie at milne's before the game and a pint of jaggy thistle lager pre-match at the ground. well, you could do these things but then you would be adopting a few of my OCD habits- i wouldn't recommend that to anyone