Glasgow's Coffee Scene

My next visit on Glasgow’s coffee scene was Laboratario Espresso located in the heart of the city centre on West Nile Street sitting just behind Buchanan Street. The idea from the owner’s is to expose the feel of Italian espresso culture to Glasgow and its visitors. The shop is a small retail unit at the bottom of the 2 West Regent street office block. Internally the shop offers a double height space fitted out with cement board and wooden slatted scaffold boards reclaimed from the Glasgow School of Art with a wax finish that you can smell upon entry. There is 10/12 covers internally with additional benches outside for the rare sunny days in Glasgow. Open since 2013 I have been visiting the shop regularly since I started studying at university. It has become a firm favourite due to the high-quality coffee and location. The Lab is fitted with a lamarzocco.com coffee machine which is an industry leader in the market of commercial coffee machines. A standard coffee menu is available withi...

Welcome to my blog on the growing coffee scene in Glasgow. I will be visiting and sharing my thoughts on some of Glasgow’s best independent coffee shops. I will be visiting shops that focus on quality coffee and aesthetics within their shops, as I feel coffee is moving away from the typical Starbucks and Costa, and it is becoming more of an art and a skill to be able to make a good quality coffee. My first trip was to Perch and Rest, located on the corner of Otago Street. The shop specialises in the type of beans they use offering a variety of different kinds with unique tasting notes that you might not be able to get from many other shops. Perch and Rest offer all kinds of espresso and 8 filter coffee’s and have a small cake/pastry selection to compliment the high-quality coffee. Perch and Rest has its own coffee roasting machine and also offers customers the option to buy bags of beans that the shop uses such as beans from Manhattan Roasters and Kawa. Having been to the shop a fair f...