GLASGOW

9. Around The Trongate

There are 23 pub trails in Glasgow. There are eleven trails in the centre of the city, plus five in the West End, three on The Southside across the river and three going East and of course the famous Subway Crawl

Three trails explore three of the main streets in the city centre HOPE St; RENFIELD St and WEST NILE St

Two trails are around Squares; GEORGE SQUARE and the OLD FRUIT MARKET in Merchant City.

Another five, trails take in : QUEEN St & GLASSFORD St, JAMAICA St/ST ENOCH, Around THE TRONGATE, BATH STREET

WATERLOO St & BOTTOM of HOPE St and CHARING CROSS .

Across the river Clyde, on the South side are PAISLEY ROAD WEST , SHAWLANDS and QUEEN’S PARK trails.

Going east are trails for up GALLOWGATE , DUKE STREET, Dennistoun and along to SHETTLESTON

In the West End there are more trails - GREAT WESTERN ROAD two trails covering Great Western Road and Woodlands Road via St Georges Cross to

Kelvinbridge Undergrounds

BYRES ROAD - two trails one down Byres Road and the other using Ashton Lane ,

FINNESTON,

KELVINHALL TO PARTICK - two routes back and forward between Kelvinhall and Partick subway stations

and MARYHILL - two trails split into top and lower

Plus the SUBWAY CRAWL - subway stops and the closest bars.

To Glasgow Introduction

Glasgow pubs around TRONGATE

GLASGOW: TRONGATE and TOLLBOOTH

At the far end of Argyll St is The Trongate leading to The Tollbooth. The block just before The Trongate splits into two has three bars on it. However, the street just before this is Candlerigs with a betting shop on the corner. Turn up here to visit Grace’s Irish Sports Bar. Then back down onto The Trongate and turn left to quickly find Buck’s Bar, followed by Boteco do Brazil and next door to that is Maggie May's.

Now cross over and go back to the street Grace’s was on. This is now called King St and walking further s The Avant-Garde and then on the next corner is The 13th Note (closed). Turn left and cross over diagonally and follow along to the left into a pedestrian area where in the corner is Mono. Walk back to road and follow it round to the left and under the railway bridge continuing along and on the right at the next corner is The Old Ship Bank Bar on a corner on the right. Walk past her, visit it later, and go down another block turning left to find opposite the park the Whistler on the Green. Leave here an return to The Old Ship Bank. Return back towards and under the railway bridge and follow the curve round to the left round on the left find The (Westering) Winds.

Leaving here follow the road round to the left and find on the corner The Victoria & Clutha Bar. Then cross over opposite The Victoria and walk up Stockwell St on the right to The Scotia on the next corner. From here you need to cross over the car park or continue up Stockwell St and turn right along the side of the car park to the end of it and find

A place this size is bound to have its own guides to illustrate the vast quantity, quality and styles of pubs.

CAMRA in Glasgow

Glasgow guide illustrating top ten pubs in different styles of drinking (and dining) eg Style pubs or Live Music pubs.

Timeout listing of best pubs - controversial

A good proportion of the pubs have real ale but many do not. The west coast still has a bit of a lager flavour - occasionally only lager. Real ale is not limited to trendy style pubs, and not even in many of these.

Glasgow does not have the tourist grouping of pubs as found in Edinburgh - they are mainly aimed at Glasgow folk.

Practically every pub offers food at lunch or all day

Grace’s Irish Sports Bar

Grace's Irish Sports Bar, Glasgow - middle of room

Grace's Irish Sports Bar, Glasgow - stage

Grace's Irish Sports Bar, Glasgow - right side with alrge booths

Grace’s Irish Sports Bar; it also has a stage for music performances and it is not primarily Irish sport that is shown. This is a large square room with pool table at left of entrance and the servery along most of the left side wall and the stage takes up the back wall. The right side wall has large banquette seating booths

Heavy: Caledonia Best; Rebel Red (Franciscan Well)

Lager: Coors; Tennent’s; Estrella; Kelvin Lager (Drygate) ; Peroni;

Cider: Magners Guinness

Buck’s Bar

Buck’s Bar (Trongate) has bar like outside seating although inside is more sitting down and eating. The servery is right in front in the door. Although there are some stools this nice area is probably more for people waiting on table space. Beyond servery are several booths. A flight of stairs on the left wall takes you to much more upstairs seating which has booth tables along window and standard tables and chairs along left wall.

Live music Saturday.

There is also a Buck’s Bar at 111 West Regeant St and it is visited on trail 10, Bath St.

Pale Ale: Disco Forklift Truck (Drygate)

Lager: Tennent’s; Staroperamen; Coors; Pravha

Cider: Aspall Suffolk

Pub Jukebox:

Alcohol themed music to listen to while you browse.

better place to be - Harry Chapin

Boteco do Brazil

Boteco do Brazil has a large outside seating space by a busy road. Inside there is a large room going back a distance. There is a mix of standard and tall seating/tables; tall near servery and standard further on. The servery is on left stopping half way up to offer more seating beyond it.

Pale Ale: Gladeye (Drygate);

Lager: Tennent’s; Birra Flea; Heverlee ; Corona; Manabrea; Wild West Lager (West)

Cider: Magners Guinness

Maggie’s Rock & Rodeo (was Maggie May’s ) ★

Maggie's Rock & Rodeo, Glasgow - new entrance

Maggie May's, Glasgow - Maggie May's frontage

Maggie's Rock & Rodeo, Glasgow - outside

Maggie's Rock & Rodeo, Glasgow - window and door

Maggie's Rock & Rodeo, Glasgow - dining area wester style

Maggie's Rock & Rodeo, Glasgow - top end of bar and corner

Maggie's Rock & Rodeo, Glasgow - down far side of servery

Maggie's Rock & Rodeo, Glasgow - American West based drinks

Maggie May's, Glasgow - down right side of servery opposite windows

Maggie May's, Glasgow - far side of servery

Maggie May's, Glasgow - performance area

Maggie May's, Glasgow - bigger tables opposite entrance

Maggie May's, Glasgow - rocks off frontage

Maggie May's, Glasgow - entrance and start of island servery

Maggie May's, Glasgow - even older counter

Maggies Rock & Rodeo was Maggie May’s (“late-night bar, kitchen and venue”) and is a large corner pub with a large rectangular island bar servery. Some change in design to the logos and counter of the servery with a switch to Country & Western music from Rock. Spaces have been named Hoedown, Maggie’s Ranch and Saloon in keeping with change of style. Entering from the main door tables are around the two window sides either side of entrance with more in front of the longer part of the servery. At the end of this area is a low stage. Taller and longer tables are in the area immediately ahead of entrance with TVs on wall. Around the back of the island bar is a large dining style room. The main bar area is for live music and sport, while the Bullpit is for riding a bucking steer (mechanical) and downstairs in the basement the Hoedown is for dancing and cowboy strip shows.. Music (and cocktails) centres around country and western.

Have a pint here

Heavy: John Smith; Neck Oil

Lager: Heineken; Heineken Silver; Amstel; Birra Moretti; Bud Light; Fosters; St Mungo

Cider: Strongbow Dark Fruit Guinness

PLACES TO VISIT WITH PUBTRAILS

The towns and villages highlighted on this web site have a wide variety of pubs and beers in them. All of the places are great to visit, whether for a day or longer, and most have tourist attractions for all of the family.

There is a large variety of pubs throughout the different towns shown below. Some you may wish never to visit again but even discovering these can be interesting. There are pubs that you would not take your wife into. While some you could not take your girlfriend into. A few you would not take either into. However, most of the pubs are very pleasant.

HOME MAP of places visited

Alnwick Ambleside Anstruther Bakewell Bamburgh Barnard Castle Bath Berwick upon Tweed Birnam & Dunkeld Bourton on the Water Bowness on Windermere Bridge of Allan Chester Chichester Dunblane Dunoon Edinburgh Ely Fort William Glasgow Gourock Greenock Helensburgh Inverness Kelso Keswick Knaresborough Largs Linlithgow Lyme Regis Melrose Montrose Newton Stewart North Berwick Norwich Oban Pebbles Penzance Portree Pitlochry Quorn Richmond Rothesay St Andrews Seahouses Seend Shrewsbury Skipton Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Stockton Heath Whitby Windemere Whitstable York

Avant Garde ★

Avant Garde is a corner pub – restaurant and music bar - with entrances on both sides. The room is large and square with a large dining area, slightly raised, on the far side. The servery is a square central bar counter with stools around all four sides. The two sides are full height windows with tables and chairs along the two sides and into the room. At the corner, between the two entrances is a raised performance area. There is a pool table in the far-right corner. Saturday (2.30-5.30) and Sunday (4-7) Jazz played, while a ceilidh (8-11.30) on Saturday. Closed Monday & Tuesday.

Have a pint or two here.

Some bottled craft beers

Heavy: Belhaven Best

Lager: Tennent’s; Avant Garde House Lager; Staroperaman

Cider: Strongbow + dark fruit Guinness

13th Note closed

13th Note is a corner pub and vegetarian cafe with the entrance right on the corner. This takes you to a long pub stretching ahead of you. The servery is on the left-hand wall. Beyond the servery the room widens out to a large dining area. Opposite the servery and along the full height window side are two rows of booths. This leaves a passage for stools and standing drinkers between the servery and thinner row of booths. There is large venue downstairs.

Have a pint here

Heavy: Caledonia Best; Joker

Craft : Parlot Blue Riband Beer

Lager: Tennent’s; St Mungo; Haverlee

Cider: Magners Guinness

Mono

Mono

Have a pint here

Craft :Caesar Augustus; Buenaveza (Stone); Never Ending Haze (Stone); Roadless (Overtone)

Lager: Williams Craft Lager; Erdinger; Budvar;

Cider: Hogan’s Midas Cider Guinness

Non-alcohol Lucky Saint; Lazercrush IPA (Beavertown); Brooklyn Special Effects

Whistler on the Green

Whistler on the Green, Glasgow - small servery at rear right

Whistler on the Green, Glasgow - servery

Whistler on the Green, Glasgow - second room

Whistler on the Green, Glasgow - right side of first room

Whistler on the Green, Glasgow - overlooks Glasgow Green

The Whistler on the Green initially looks like small one roomed bar with servery across an angle at top right. However just before the servery is a doorway to the right leading to another room. The first room has a couple of booths with green banquette seating on the left. To the right of the room and also in the next door room are brown rectangular tables. The ceiling is cream with small brown beams. Food available including a fresh oysters happy hour 4-8pm Fridays. Closed Mondays

Heavy/Pale Ale: Overtone

Lager: Madri; Coors; Staroperamen

Cider: Aspall Guinness

PUB QUIZ

Which of the dynamic duo shares a name with a town in Turkey?
Answer at foot of page

The Old Ship Bank ★

The Old Ship Bank is a corner pub with windows well covered in protection, which along with the wheelie bin, and smokers, in the entrance seems unattractive. However, once inside it is clean and bright with a lot to offer. The pub has a square central servery with front, right and left sides of the servery having enough space between bar and wall for stools and tables. The right and left sides have some tall and dining height tables and seating around the walls and stools at the counter. The far side of the square bar serves what is another room opened up. This has seating around two sides and a large performance stage at the right-hand wall. The middle of the room has lots of small tables with seating. The pub is carpeted up to a few feet from the counter. The servery is a bit higher than usual. The ceiling is a wooden box structure and the rooms are all brightly decorated. Radio was playing rather than music.

This building was where Glasgow’s first bank, The Glasgow Ship Bank, was situated.

History OLD GLASGOW PUBS

Have a pint here.

Heavy: Belhaven Best

Lager: Tennent’s; Carling; Birra Moretti

Cider: Strongbow; Strongbow Dark Fruit Guinness

The Winds

The (Western) Winds is a small two roomed pub with bar counter and bar area in the front room and lounge to the rear. The black tiled bar counter is on the left wall of the front room. In the bar part there are two black tables with a “Grolsch” banner up the centre (although the bar does not sell Grolsch). These are accompanied by small armchairs. The lounge part has small grey tables and banquette seating. Decor has wooden floor and ceiling with black walls which are pink above the dado line.

History OLD GLASGOW PUBS

Heavy: Caledonia Best

Lager: Carling; Tennent’s

Cider: Magners Guinness

Victoria & Clutha bars ★

Victoria and Clutha Bars, Glasgow - Victoria entrance

Victoria and Clutha Bars, Glasgow - Clutha entrance

Victoria and Clutha Bars, Glasgow - entrance to Clutha

Victoria and Clutha Bars, Glasgow - Clutha

Victoria and Clutha Bars, Glasgow - rear outside seating

Victoria and Clutha Bars, Glasgow - Victoria Bar

Victoria and Clutha Bars, Glasgow - Victoria

Victoria and Clutha Bars, Glasgow - outside seating

Victoria & Clutha bars. The left hand traditional looking bar is The Victoria while the other with the mural is The Clutha. The Victoria has kept the old gantry and general shape although the left-hand room is now the kitchen. The bar counter runs along the left side. Dining tables are either side of the entrance and along the right wall opposite the counter. At the end of the counter there is an entrance to the performance part of the bar. This is a round area with a semi-circular bar on the front wall and stage to the back. This area has a glass ceiling to let in the light and together with stone floor gives the impression of an outdoors venue. Some low and high tables in this area but mainly for standing in. there is outside seating and small stage off to the right.

What’s On

Heavy: Caledonia Best ; Innes & Gunn Session Ale

Lager: Drygate Kelvin Pilsner; Tennent’s; Heverlee; Menabrea; Innes & Gunn

Cider: Magners; Magners Dark Fruit Guinness

The Scotia ★

The Scotia, Glasgow - real ale was gone but now back

The Scotia lays claim to be the oldest bar in Glasgow - 1792. This is a multi-area pub served from and L-shaped servery. This corner pub has a low ceiling with dark wood beams, wooden floor and subdued lighting all create an attractive atmosphere. The rest of the pub continues this dark wood pattern in the gantry, counter, furniture and old screens splitting up the counter into small discrete lengths. There are two entrances on the long side each of which takes you to the main bar area and each also has rooms off in the other direction. The right-hand door has a small snug off to the right while the left-hand door has a longer thin room off to the left. Dining sizes tables around walls and in side rooms with stools around counter.

HISTORY OLD GLASGOW PUBS

Have a pint here

Regular in Good Beer Guide, including 2024 , 2025 CAMRA discount

Real ale: Corncrake; Belhaven 80/- ; Island Life; Red MacGregor; Old Speckled Hen

Heavy: Belhaven Best; Neck Oil; Old Speckled Hen; Tennent’s Special ;

Lager: St Mungo; Tennent’s; Stella; Heidi Weiss

Cider: Applestone Guinness

Links for Glasgow city centre Pubtrails

Trail 1 - Around George Square

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Waxy O’ Connors
Dow’s
The Vale (now closed)
Camperdown Place (closed)
Millenium Hotel
The Alchemist
Flight Club
The Ark
The Press Bar
Committee Room No 9
Katie’s Bar
The Piper
Assaggin i(was Doppio Malto)
Drouthys
The Counting House
The Anchor Line
The Citizen (was The Trading House)
The Auctioneers

George Square
Trail 2 -Hope Street

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Stereo
The Old Hairdressers
The Society Room
The Pot Still.
Molly Malone's.
MacConnell's
Ardnamurchan (was Trader Joe's)
Rufus T Firefly
NYC Bar
Hope & Vincent
Ad Lib (closed)
The Toby Jug
The Smokin' Fox (formerly The Hope)

Hope Street
Trail 3 -renfield St

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The Merchant
The Maltman
The Raven
Lauders.
The Atholl Arms
Walkabout
The Renfield Bar
Revolution
Missoula
Revolucion De Cuba
The Drum and Monkey
The Horseshoe.
Dury Lane Bar & Kitchen
Yes Bar - closed

Renfield St
Trail 4 - West Nile St

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Vroni's Wine Bar
The Shilling Brewing Co.
The Iron Horse - closed
The Station Bar
The Intermezzo
Alfie’s (was Alfredo's)
Cul Cuil (was The Courtyard)
All Bar One
Innes & Gunn Talroom
Los Iguanas
Revolution
Ross's Original Bar
Tabac
August House

West Nile St
Trail 5 - around the Fruitmarket

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Bar 91
Beer Cafe
The Metropolitan
Marmalade Skies (was Boudoir Wine Bar) - closed
Bar Square (closed)
The Tap Room (was Steak, Rattle and Roll which was Bar Espagnol Mercado)
O'Neil's
Bar Soba
Bar Gandolfi.
Bar Home
Babbity Bowster,
Strathduie (was Macgregor's Pie & Ale Howf and before that Strathduie !)
The Black Bull
McChuills
Connolly’s LIQR (was LIQR and before that The G-Lounge)
Blackfriars of Bell St
Mharsanta

Around The Fruitmarket
Trail 6 - Waterloo St and bottom of Hope St

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The Smokin’ Fox (was The Hope)
Kitty O'Shea's (downstairs)
Kitty O'Shea's (was El Camino and was The Drop)
Rhoderick Dhu
The Woods
The Waterloo
The Duke’s Umbrella
Sir John Muir
Oswald’s (was Kellys ;was Quarter Gill)
Lafferty's (was No 16 Bar & Kitchen was Sotto; was The Two Heided Man)
Denholms
Solid Rock Cafe
The Alpen Lodge
The Park Lane
26 Hope St

Waterloo & Hope St
Trail 7 - Queen St and Glassford St

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Biere Halle
The Lab
Wonderbar
Sloans
Rocky O' Sullivans CLOSED
Strata CLOSED
Max's Bar & Grill
Thundercat
The Spiritualist
Cairns
Steps Bar
Blane Valley
Bacchus
Rab Ha's
Poco Loco (was The Pavement )
BrewDog
The Gallery Bar
The Amsterdam
The Oriental (closed)

Queen St and Glassford St
Trail 8 - Jamaica St- St Enoch

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O'Neil's (was The Royal Scott)
The Grant Arms
The Crystal Palace
Macsorley's
The Imperial
The Mint & Lime - closed
Lauristons
Gallagher’s (was Kelly’s and was Coyote)
Hootenanny
Times Square
Crafty Joe's (taken over by Times Square)

Jamaica St- St Enoch
Trail 9 - Around The Trongate

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Grace’s Irish Sports Bar
Buck’s Bar
Boteco do Brazil
Maggie’s Rock n Rodeo
Avant Garde
13th Note -(closed)
Mono
Whistler on the Green
The Old Ship Bank Bar
The Winds
The Victoria & Clutha
The Scotia

Around The Trongate
Trail 10 - Bath St

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Golf Lounge
Buck’s Bar
Bloc+
The Butterfly and The Pig
Palomino
Slouch
The Griffin
Tiki Bar and Kitsch Inn
St Judes
Howlin’ Wolf
Malones
The Bay Horse

Bath St
Trail 16 - Charing Cross

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Bavaria Baurhaus
Slug & Lettuce (closed)
Bon Accord
Chinaski’s
The Locale
Driftwood
The Hall
Nico’s
Kilt & Kocktails
The Hengler’s Circus
The State

Charing Cross

East End and Southside links

Trail 17 - up the Gallowgate

Chrystal Bell & Co
MacKinnon’s (closed)
The Gate (check opening)
Bar ‘67 (check opening)
226 Gallowgate
Hielan Jessie
The Wee Man’s Bar
The Drover
Van Winkle (check opening)
St Luke & The Flying Ox
Traders Lounge
The Old Burnt Barns (check opening)
Braemar
Tollbooth Bar

Up The Gallowgate
Trail 18 - Dennistoun

The Bristol bar
The Louden tavern
The Duke Bar
the Crown Creighton
The Alexandra Bar
The Snug
The Palais
Redmond’s of Dennistoun
The Drover
The Wee Man’s Bar

Duke St, Dennistoun
Trail 21 -Shettleston

Snedden’s Inn
The Palaceum
The Town Tavern
The Cottage Bar
The Marquis
The Drum
The Portland Arms
The Railway tavern
The Kirkhouse
Miller’s

Shettleston
Trail 19 - Paisley Rd West

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Lauriston Bar
The Quayside bar
The Union Bar
The Old Toll Bar
The Viceroy
The Bellrock
Grapes
The District bar
Kensington Bar
Park Bar

Paisley Rd West
trail 22 -Queen's Park

McNeil’s
The Regent
Titwood Bar
TheBbungo
Allison Arms
MJ Heraghty
Victoria Bar
Ryan’s bar
The Bell Jar
The Rose reilly
Queen’s Park Cafe

Queen's Park
Trail 23 - Shawlands

Trail 23 - Shawlands
Old Stag Inn
Quaich
Loc's
The Millwood
James Tassie
Phillies of Shawlands
The Granary
Georgic
The Corona
Sweeney's on the Park

Shawlands

Links for Glasgow West End & Subway Pubtrails

Trail 11 a nd b - St George's to Kelvinbridge

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The Castle Vaults
The Hug and Pint
The Scallion (was Munro's then The Bull and now ..)
Wintersgills
The Lansdowne
Webster's
FORK A
Inn Deep
Cooper’s
The Belle
The French Horn (was Bakehouse)
Bank Street Bar Kitchen
The Left Bank
Stravaigin
The Doublet
or FORK B
Schoolhouse
Dram
FF West End
Arlington
The Drake
Camerons

St George's to Kelvinbridge
Trail 12- Byres Rd (a) & (b)

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Trail (a) Ashton Lane
Curler's Rest
the Wee Pub/The Pub
Innes & Gunn Brewery Tap
Brel
Vodka Wodka
Jinty McGinty’s
Hillhead Book Club
The Parlour
Oran Mor
BeGin
Trail (b) Byres Road
Curler’s Rest
Tennent's Bar
Cottiers
The Rock
Topolabamba (was Bar Soba)
The Aragon
The Hill - closed
Gumbo - closed
The Record Factory
The Three Judges
Bag O'Nails

Byres Rd
Trail 13 - Kelvingrove

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Dirty Duchess
Lebowskis
Taphouse
The Grove
The Big Slide
The Snaffle Bit
The Butchershop
BrewDog
Dukes Bar
The Islay Inn
The Park Bar
El Jefe's
No 78
Kelvingrove Cafe
The Ben Nevis
Finnieston
Brass Monkey
Strip Joint

Kelvingrove
trail 15 - Kelvinhall to Partick and back

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Partick to Kelvinhall
Stumps Bar
The Fiddlers
Victoria Bar
Quarter Gill
The Linsmor
Sparkle Horse
West End Tavern
Record Factory
Gallus
Kelvinhall to Partick
Three Judges
The Dolphin
Bag O’Nails
Storm Queen
Smiddy Bar
Tenement Bar
Windsor Tav.
Rosevale Tav.
Deoch An Dorus

Kelvinhall to Partick
trail 20 - Maryhill

LOWER
The Castle Vaults
The Tower
the Star & Garter
Munn’s
The BrewHaus
The Botany Bar CLOSED
The Woodside Inn
The Royalty Bar
UPPER
The First & Last
Kelvin Dock CLOSED
The Punch Bow;
The Viking Bar
The Lockhouse
Harvey’s Bar
The Ram’s Head

Maryhill
Trail 14 - Glasgow Subway

Waxy O'Connors
Jackson’s
Castle Vaults
The Hug
The Doublet
Curler’s Rest
The Bag O' Nails
Deoch and Doris
Brechin's
The Louden Tavern
Kensington
The Bellrock
Stanley Bar - closed
The Old Toll Bar
The Lord Nelson - closed
Laurieston
Times Square

Glasgow Subway

Links to pages and sites

Books on Beer

A variety of recommended books to improve your knowledge of beer and brewing

Books on Beer
Stevenson & MacKay

Craig Stevenson and John MacKay use their bus passes to visit pubs the length and breadth of Scotland.
They have recorded their adventures in seven books.

Map of pubs visted
Books on Pubs

A veriety of recommended books that describe the history and development of the public house.

Books on Pubs

Pub visits by Craig Stevenson & John MacKay as they tour Scotland using their bus passes.

The Cheap Way 'Round
Roon The Edge
The Auldest Boozers in Town
Still Goin'
The Beer Hunters
In Aff the Bar
Mud Sweat and Beers

No 16, Hope St, Glasgow — “Beer, making you see double and making you think your single.”

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GLASGOW

9. Around The Trongate

There are 23 pub trails in Glasgow. There are eleven trails in the centre of the city, plus five in the West End, three on The Southside across the river and three going East and of course the famous Subway Crawl

Three trails explore three of the main streets in the city centre HOPE St; RENFIELD St and WEST NILE St

Two trails are around Squares; GEORGE SQUARE and the OLD FRUIT MARKET in Merchant City.

Another five, trails take in : QUEEN St & GLASSFORD St, JAMAICA St/ST ENOCH, Around THE TRONGATE, BATH STREET

WATERLOO St & BOTTOM of HOPE St and CHARING CROSS .

Across the river Clyde, on the South side are PAISLEY ROAD WEST , SHAWLANDS and QUEEN’S PARK trails.

Going east are trails for up GALLOWGATE , DUKE STREET, Dennistoun and along to SHETTLESTON

In the West End there are more trails - GREAT WESTERN ROAD two trails covering Great Western Road and Woodlands Road via St Georges Cross to

Kelvinbridge Undergrounds

BYRES ROAD - two trails one down Byres Road and the other using Ashton Lane ,

FINNESTON,

KELVINHALL TO PARTICK - two routes back and forward between Kelvinhall and Partick subway stations

and MARYHILL - two trails split into top and lower

Plus the SUBWAY CRAWL - subway stops and the closest bars.

Glasgow pubs around TRONGATE

Grace’s Irish Sports Bar

Heavy: Caledonia Best; Rebel Red (Franciscan Well)

Lager: Coors; Tennent’s; Estrella; Kelvin Lager (Drygate) ; Peroni;

Cider: Magners Guinness

Buck’s Bar

Live music Saturday.

There is also a Buck’s Bar at 111 West Regeant St and it is visited on trail 10, Bath St.

Pale Ale: Disco Forklift Truck (Drygate)

Lager: Tennent’s; Staroperamen; Coors; Pravha

Cider: Aspall Suffolk

Pub Jukebox:

Alcohol themed music to listen to while you browse.

better place to be - Harry Chapin

Boteco do Brazil

Boteco do Brazil has a large outside seating space by a busy road. Inside there is a large room going back a distance. There is a mix of standard and tall seating/tables; tall near servery and standard further on. The servery is on left stopping half way up to offer more seating beyond it.

Pale Ale: Gladeye (Drygate);

Lager: Tennent’s; Birra Flea; Heverlee ; Corona; Manabrea; Wild West Lager (West)

Cider: Magners Guinness

Maggie’s Rock & Rodeo (was Maggie May’s ) ★

Have a pint here

Heavy: John Smith; Neck Oil

Lager: Heineken; Heineken Silver; Amstel; Birra Moretti; Bud Light; Fosters; St Mungo

Cider: Strongbow Dark Fruit Guinness

PLACES TO VISIT WITH PUBTRAILS

The towns and villages highlighted on this web site have a wide variety of pubs and beers in them. All of the places are great to visit, whether for a day or longer, and most have tourist attractions for all of the family.

HOME MAP of places visited

Avant Garde ★

Have a pint or two here.

Some bottled craft beers

Heavy: Belhaven Best

Lager: Tennent’s; Avant Garde House Lager; Staroperaman

Cider: Strongbow + dark fruit Guinness

13th Note closed

Mono

Whistler on the Green

Heavy/Pale Ale: Overtone

Lager: Madri; Coors; Staroperamen

Cider: Aspall Guinness

PUB QUIZ

The Old Ship Bank ★

This building was where Glasgow’s first bank, The Glasgow Ship Bank, was situated.

History OLD GLASGOW PUBS

Have a pint here.

Heavy: Belhaven Best

Lager: Tennent’s; Carling; Birra Moretti

Cider: Strongbow; Strongbow Dark Fruit Guinness

The Winds

History OLD GLASGOW PUBS

Heavy: Caledonia Best

Lager: Carling; Tennent’s

Cider: Magners Guinness

Victoria & Clutha bars ★

Heavy: Caledonia Best ; Innes & Gunn Session Ale

Lager: Drygate Kelvin Pilsner; Tennent’s; Heverlee; Menabrea; Innes & Gunn

Cider: Magners; Magners Dark Fruit Guinness

The Scotia ★

HISTORY OLD GLASGOW PUBS

Have a pint here

Regular in Good Beer Guide, including 2024 , 2025 CAMRA discount

Real ale: Corncrake; Belhaven 80/- ; Island Life; Red MacGregor; Old Speckled Hen

Heavy: Belhaven Best; Neck Oil; Old Speckled Hen; Tennent’s Special ;

Lager: St Mungo; Tennent’s; Stella; Heidi Weiss

Cider: Applestone Guinness