The East End's rising food quarter: Duke Street coffee, craft beer taprooms and the Barrowland market lore.
Freedom Bakery is a Glasgow social-enterprise bakery that trains prisoners in the craft, slow-fermenting sourdough sold through cafes and shops citywide.
Worth the queue24-hour white sourdough
TipThere is no shopfront at the bakery itself; look for Freedom loaves at Glasgow delis, cafes and farmers markets.
Outlier is a coffee shop, bakery and gallery on London Road in Glasgow's East End near the Barras, known for cinnamon buns and almond croissants.
Worth the queueCinnamon bun
TipIt sits by the Barras, so pair a morning pastry here with a wander round the weekend market next door.
Sweet Jane Bakehouse is a weekend-only bakery on Duke Street in Glasgow's Dennistoun, selling out its cakes, breads and pastries most days it opens.
Worth the queueSeasonal cake slices
TipIt only opens Thursday to Sunday and bakes to sell out, so arrive early in the day for the best choice.
Dear Green is a pioneering speciality coffee roaster in Glasgow's East End, running an SCA training school and supplying cafes across the city since 2011.
BeansEthiopia, Colombia, Guatemala
BrewsEspresso, Filter, Whole bean retail
TipIt is a roastery and coffee school rather than a walk-in cafe; its beans turn up in the best independents citywide.
Dennistoun Bar-B-Que is an East End smokehouse on Duke Street, Glasgow, pairing barbecue and burgers with a surprising, well-chosen natural wine list.
PourA natural wine with a plate of smoked brisket
WineNatural and low-intervention wine
FoodSmoked barbecue and burgers
TipIt is as much a natural-wine bar as a barbecue joint; ask what growers are open by the glass that night.
The Barras is Glasgow's raucous weekend market off the Gallowgate in the East End, where vintage stalls now share space with wood-fired pizza and street food.
TryWeekend market street food
TipCome hungry and go on a Saturday when the most food traders and the Barrowland lore are in full swing.
Drygate is a craft brewery, bar and kitchen beside Tennent's on Glasgow's east side, with 23 taps, a view into the brewhouse and an upstairs beer hall.
TipThe upstairs beer hall and terrace are more relaxed than the ground-floor brasserie; both look into the brewery.
WEST brews German-style lagers to the Bavarian purity law in the landmark Templeton building on Glasgow Green, a vast beer hall, bar and riverside garden.
TipThe beer garden on Glasgow Green is one of the city's biggest; the St Mungo lager is the flagship pour.
The Barras is Glasgow's raucous weekend market off the Gallowgate in the East End, where vintage stalls now share space with wood-fired pizza and street food.
TipCome hungry and go on a Saturday when the most food traders and the Barrowland lore are in full swing.
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