Filter coffee bars in Glasgow
Where Glasgow takes pour-over and batch brew seriously. Single origins, careful extraction, beans that change with the season.
16 cafés · United Kingdom
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The Good Coffee Cartel
Founded by Todd and Courtney - veterans of the old Avenue Coffee Roasting Co - The Good Coffee Cartel blends a live…
Dear Green Coffee Roasters
Founded in 2011 by Lisa Lawson, Dear Green is Glasgow's most influential specialty roastery and a B Corp pioneer. The…
Through the House
Through the House opened in early 2025 in the former Western Wear leather shop on Glasgow's oldest street, combining…
Black Pine Coffee Co.
Black Pine is an independent specialty coffee shop and small-batch roastery on Great Western Road, serving…
Gordon Street Coffee
Gordon Street Coffee is a small-batch roastery and cafe embedded into the fabric of Glasgow Central Station, offering…
Hinba Coffee Roasters - Dumbarton Road
Hinba roasts single-origin specialty beans on the Isle of Seil on Scotland's west coast and runs several cafes across…
Hinba Coffee Roasters - Great Western Road
The second Glasgow outpost for Hebridean roaster Hinba sits on the upper stretch of Great Western Road, offering the…
Kaf Coffee
Kaf is a Scandinavian-inflected specialty cafe and bakery in Partick serving single-origin espresso and filter from a…
Laboratorio Espresso
Laboratorio Espresso brings a Milanese sensibility to Glasgow's city centre, sourcing from outstanding European…
Outlier
Outlier is a design-forward cafe, bakery and arts venue on London Road that Conde Nast named among its best new…
Papercup Coffee Company
Established in 2013, Papercup is a West End institution that roasts its own coffee on nearby Belmont Lane and pulls…
Parallel Coffee
Parallel roasts specialty coffee at their Castlemilk Enterprise Park roastery and runs an espresso bar open to the…
Riverhill Coffee Bar
Riverhill is a quietly essential city-centre specialty bar on Gordon Street, a two-minute walk from Glasgow Central…
The Steamie Coffee Roasters
The Steamie opened in Finnieston in 2013 and added its own roastery under a railway arch at SWG3 in 2016, making it…
Thomson's Coffee - 1841 Hyndland
Thomson's 1841 Hyndland opened in late 2025 as an all-day cafe bar concept on Hyndland Road, transitioning from…
Thomson's Coffee - Gallowgate
Scotland's longest-established roaster - founded 1841 - operates this spacious East End cafe and retail store beside…
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These are the Glasgow cafés that put filter coffee front and centre, with pour-over or batch brew on rotating single origins rather than espresso alone.
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