Did you wake up this morning in one of the coolest neighbourhoods in Glasgow? The city is a patchwork of areas with their own sense of identity, local food and drink scene, music, attitude, parks, independent shops and great streets to live on.
Join us as we explore the neighbourhoods that provide the coolest local lifestyle in Glasgow for 2024 - and where you should visit when you go there.
1. Partick
Partick is the place to be these days - with incredible food and drink spots like Celino's, Non-Viet, Ga Ga, Bag O' Nails , Suissi Vegan Kitchen and The Skillet. It's one of the most coolest spots in the city, with great tenement flats to live in on Gardner Street - the steepest street in the city - and on White Street. There's a startling amount of quirky independent shops for you to find and great pizza at Basta.
2. Shawlands
Voted by Time Out as one of the coolest neighbourhoods in the world. Shawlands is a terrific space that has really established a new identity in the last decade. This was in no small part thanks to the amazing independent businesses that make up the bulk of the districts shops, cafes, rand estaurants. Spots like Cafe Strange Brew really paved the way for the independent in the area and Glasgow as a whole. Every second Sunday you can head down to Park Lane Market to meet local craft makers. Southside seems to be rapidly replacing the West End as the place where everything's going down these days - with newcomers to the city often opting to stay in the Southside over the West End for a myriad of factors, the lower rent prices being chief among them.
3. Dennistoun
When the students discovered Dennistoun, people were right to worry that the east end neighbourhood could lose the culture that made it so great. In our experience, this hasn't been the case, Dennistoun is as distinctive as it's ever been and the newer cafes, shops and restaurants are getting along fine with established businesses along Duke Street. A short walk or bus ride to the city centre makes the east end neighbourhood a hot destination, and access to spaces like Alexandra Park is just the cherry on the cake. Zennor also offers one of the best coffees, couple that with their maritozzi and you've got the perfect Sunday morning.
4. Battlefield
Battlefield is one of the coolest neighbourhoods south of the Clyde. It goes without saying that Battlefield Rest is one of the best restaurants in the city, sitting alongside a new collection of coffee shops including Common Ground. It's a lot quieter than other neighbourhoods on this list, making it a great place to raise a family in Glasgow, as well as being undeniably cool. Battlefield is one of our favourite places to hang around, there's a real community aspect to the place.