Glasgow’s Cafe Culture
Glasgow’s Cafe Culture ...
Get a taste for local coffee N
o virus has halted Glasgows thirst for great coffee! The past ten years have seen a boom in excellent coffee shops in the city centre as well as Glasgow's West, East and Southside neighbourhoods. It's now easier than ever to find a perfect flat white and with lockdown guidelines for businesses allowing takeaway many coffee businesses are operating and still caffeinating the city! Local coffee roaster and hosts of Scotlands biggest coffee gathering, the Glasgow Coffee Festival, Dear Green Coffee Roasters was established in central Glasgow in 2011 and supply many local cafes, restaurants and hotels
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with freshly roasted speciality grade coffee beans. Sourcing the raw product seasonally and ethically from all over the coffee producing world, the coffee obsessives take their name from their home city known as the 'Dear Green Place' and are located - just a stone's throw away from the legendary music venue and marketplace, the Barrowlands. A wander from the roastery will take you to Dear Green's coffee bar Project at 60 Osbourne Street, to their friends Spitfire on Candleriggs and from there to the institution that is Riverhill Coffee Bar on Gordon Street. A wander up the hill to St Vincent Street takes you past many
architectural sites (look up!) before the perfect pitstop at Primal Roast. You're never too far from a Dear Green coffee if you're west (Meadow Road Cafe or William Cafe), south (Deanston Bakery or Locavore) or east (Sweet Jane Bakehouse) of the city. Roastery tours are currently on hold but worth the wait to see the full coffee roasting process and experience the many flavours and aromas from a range of freshly roasted, high quality speciality grade arabica coffee! Grab some beans (international shipping!) and make a brew while you watch this space! www.deargreencoffee.com
