Rumours Kopitiam

Rumours Kopitiam

21 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 1HW

Telephone 0141 353 0678
Food served Mon–Sat noon–10.30pm; Sun noon–10pm.
Average price £7.90 (set lunch); £13 (evening meal)

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Rumours Kopitiam seems to have it all – a great location on a busy Bath Street corner, tasty Malay dishes and more than reasonable pricing. All this ensures that even on a wet weekday night, punters will steadily stream through the door. Sure, the compact space is basic, as you would expect from a café, but this is no way reflects the intricate tastes coming from the semi open-plan kitchen. Salt and chilli prawns make an accomplished spicy starter along with crisp fried chicken wings coated in aromatic batter. Expect crispy shredded beef, nasi goring, pad thai and a handful of curries to feature or perhaps pick something from the daily specials written on the chalkboard beside the kitchen, such as sizzling fillet steak in pepper sauce, salmon curry or a light aromatic grilled sea bass. The wine list is also rather good considering, and a nice bargain drop can be found for less than fifteen quid.

High point: Authentic flavours dominate every dish
Low point: Not much in the way of puddings

Number of wines sold by the glass: 2
Provides: Vegetarian options (at least ¼ main courses), Children's portions, Children's high chairs
Capacity: 40
Largest group: 40
Open since: 2008
House wine: £14.30 per bottle

Comments & ratings

8. Calps007 – 27 Apr 2012, 3:10am Rumours Kopitiam Report

Not much to write about apart from the fact this place should never in a million years have its place on the hit list. It is more or less a bog standard cafe (Asian stlyle) with non of the malay charm I was hoping for.

The nasi goreng was the dullest I have ever tasted I was hoping for so much more......So with a bit of invention I decided to lay on some soy sauce from the table and guess what....7 months out of date. If you fancy a really tasty curry with amaing service void romours at all cost simply walk an extra 100m to the Thai lemongrass

1/5 only for price. Poor food, shocking service and attitude

7. True Malaysian – 21 Sep 2011, 7:17pm Report

Malaysian style restaurant. Konon. No display of Malaysian hospitality at all!

Let's not talk about the Malay Archipelago but in Malaysia, Malays are Muslims. In this kopitiam, Malay style fried vermicelli contains pork. If you come to Malaysia, you will not find Malay food containing pork.

The most disappointing is the absence of Malaysian hospitality. Will not go back and will not recommend any home sick Malaysian to visit this place.

6. krazy kazy – 4 Jul 2011, 4:36pm Rumours Kopitiam Report: having read a couple of the reviews before visiting this restaurant i found it amusing to recognise the waitress who was being referred to by some reviewers...for me the food in rumours was very good, but the waitress, as mentioned already had a very aggressive presence. when we asked to see the menu again to consider a dessert she made a comment about the people waiting for a table...i can understand that this is more a cafe than a restaurant and if she had taken the time to talk to us rather than give us a menu at the same time as 'dropping' her comment and then walking off we probably would have been understanding. i will be very resistant to visiting rumours in future because of my experience, but the food was good. i can almost see this waitress becoming a glasgow icon for all the wrong reasons!!the star rating for rumours is based on my overall experience, not for the food alone.

5. Mr C – 23 May 2011, 6:44pm Rumours Kopitiam Report

This place has taken a real dive of late. Rotten food - stodgy, over-cooked noodles, gloopy, over-salted sauce. All of it cooked and delivered with the charm and sophistication of a crabbit school dinner lady.

It's "authentic Malaysian" in the same way that the Blue Lagoon chippy across the road offers "authenic Scottish" cuisine.

4. Angus McLellan – 26 Nov 2010, 12:45am Rumours Kopitiam Report

In general, Rumours suffers by comparison with Asia Style up the road at Charing Cross, but then most restaurants would. The service isn't quite as friendly and the food marginally less good.

But it isn't all negative. For some dishes, though (Kung Pao Chicken, Salt & Pepper Squid), I think it does beat Asia Style. Another plus is the selection of Malaysian hot and cold drinks. The cold ones - fruit with sago, fruit or fruit jelly with chewy tapioca pearls - make a fine dessert, another win over Asia Style since there are no desserts to be had there and not much choice of drinks either.

I'd definitely recommend Rumours for lunch, but for dinner it would be hard to choose this over Asia Style, except maybe on Saturday or Sunday when you'll get seated and served much faster here. But that tells its own story, no?

3. tony mack – 12 Aug 2010, 10:06pm Report

I have enjoyed several meals at Rumours with my wife and friends, but tonight I went in on my own at 6 30. The place was virtually empty, but the extremely rude waitress told me I would have to sit on one of the breakfast stools facing out onto the street.

I asked if I could sit at one of the tables, and she just said NO!

I won't be going back to Rumours. A pity because the food is quite pleasant, but equally so, I don't want to sit like a monkey in a window.

2. Muhammad – 2 May 2010, 11:45pm Report: was good, been a frequent customers here with my family. Then, this waitress (presumably was always behind the counter making the drinks) was in the forefront when we came in, really rude. My niece was just a child who took her fresh fruit juice she had into the restaurant - the plan was to order a full sets of dishes and she also wanted to have the teh tarik...believe it or not, d waitress was so dayum rude by the time we enter and kept saying no outside drinks....at least be more courteous, not that we aint gonna pay for our food or drinks. The other waitress didnt even say anything about my niece who is only a child holding her less over drink. We are not beggers, we could afford to pay any price if the waitress only realise her earnings is just meagre. I for once was really annoy at such an attitude, the boss of this place should fire that waitress or else the shop would have bad luck. Choi, hamka chan leh. This restaurant should be rated no star for service by that waitress.

1. john houston – 31 Dec 2008, 5:17pm Report: sorry to be any trouble but lastnight (30th dec) my wife and 8 yr old daughter had a meal in your buffet king in bath st,my daughter has lost her birthday ring i got her witch was (30th dec) it was a birthday meal we went for, i would you to contact me if anyone finds a small gold ring with diamond,its not expensive, it was a birthday present from her mum and myself and she has been very upset since she lost it,so if anyone does find it please let me know at this email address. thank you so very much.
ps.we were sitting near the disabled lift near the front door.
yours truthfuly MR John Houston.

Average rating 2/5 from 4 reviews of Rumours Kopitiam.

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