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kaf coffee

A small independent coffee shop and bakery on Hyndland Street in Partick, for speciality coffee, sourdough and pastries to take away, Thursday to Sunday.

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kaf is a small independent coffee shop and bakery on Hyndland Street in Partick, a few steps from Dumbarton Road, behind a navy front with its name in lower-case letters.

It is a takeaway café, with a bench or two outside.

The coffee is speciality coffee, made from single-origin beans that are also sold to take home, and the bakery works on sourdough loaves, pastries and filled doughnuts, stacked on the racks behind the counter as they come out. There are deli goods on the shelves, too. It keeps short hours, opening from Thursday to Sunday only, from half past eight on Thursday and Friday, nine on Saturday and half past nine on Sunday, until four. Its sister shop, kaf goods, a general store and takeaway café in Bearsden, sells the same bakes alongside cheese, cured meats and cooks' ingredients.

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Before you go

kaf opens Thursday and Friday from 8.30am, Saturday from 9am and Sunday from 9.30am, closing at 4pm.

It is closed Monday to Wednesday.

Hours
Thu and Fri 08:30 to 16:00; Sat 09:00 to 16:00; Sun 09:30 to 16:00.
Where
5 Hyndland Street, Partick, G11 5QE.
Also
kaf goods, 15 New Kirk Road, Bearsden.

Opening hours

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Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
Closed
Thursday
8.30am–4pm
Friday
8.30am–4pm
Saturday
9am–4pm
Sunday
9.30am–4pm

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Where it is

5 Hyndland Street, Partick.

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