East End The East End is a place where the rich tradition and history of Glasgow’s musical heritage combines with bustling, top quality independent food outlets, cool and comfortable drinking holes and, with property prices lower than to the west and south, a buzzy sense of something happening with young people congregating there.
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onnected by the long stretch of Duke Street, Glasgow’s East End, once vaunted for a significant uplift by the 2014 Commonwealth Games, has instead grown in a more organic way. Stretching from the Gallowgate to Dennistoun and beyond the football stadium at Parkhead, it retains its sense of
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community spirit, with the full scale of gentrification not quite reached yet. It also contains some of the city’s more underappreciated green space. Dennistoun was ranked the eighth coolest neighbourhood in the world in 2020 by Time Out. It may feel a bit more rough and ready than some of the glitzier
places on that list, but embedding yourself within it you’ll realise why it was granted that honour.
