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Babbity Bowster is a pub, restaurant, and small hotel at 16-18 Blackfriars Street in Glasgow's Merchant City. It occupies a five-bay Georgian town house built around 1794 and attributed to the architects Robert and James Adam, the last surviving fragment of a terrace the Adam brothers planned for the area. After years as a warehouse and a long period of dereliction - reduced at one point to a roofless shell - the building was rescued and restored by the Edinburgh architect Nicholas Groves-Raines...