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Perch & Rest Coffee on Otago Street at dusk, a white cottage with lit windows, greenery and tables and chairs out front.
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Perch & Rest

A coffee shop and shop for beans, brewing kit and gifts, in a white cottage on Otago Street by the River Kelvin, open every day.

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Perch & Rest Coffee is one of the prettiest coffee stops in the West End, a little white cottage on Otago Street by the River Kelvin, with greenery along the windows and tables and chairs set out in front.

Inside, it's part coffee bar and part shop, with bags of beans, brewing kit and gifts on the shelves, so you can take a little of it home with you. The coffee is made with care, and there are cakes, pastries and sandwiches to go with it, served from breakfast through lunch. Children are welcome, and so are dogs. It's open every day, from 9am on weekdays, 9.30am on Saturday and 10am on Sunday, until 5pm. It sits in a lovely corner of the city too, a short walk from Kelvinbridge subway and Great Western Road, with two of Glasgow's best secondhand bookshops close by on Otago Street and Otago Lane.

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Before you go

Open every day, with tables out in front.

There is no booking.

Where
39 Otago Street, Glasgow, G12 8JJ, by Kelvinbridge.
Open
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, Saturday 9.30am to 5pm, Sunday 10am to 5pm.
Dogs and children
Both welcome.
Phone
0141 341 0229

Opening hours

Monday
9am–5pm
Tuesday
9am–5pm
Wednesday
9am–5pm
Thursday
9am–5pm
Friday
9am–5pm
Saturday
9.30am–5pm
Sunday
10am–5pm

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Where it is

On Otago Street by the River Kelvin, near Kelvinbridge, G12 8JJ.

Close byKelvinbridge and the River Kelvin.
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  2. Diners round a table in a warm, busy room.StravaiginA West End institution on Gibson Street for over twenty-five years, cooking adventurous food from Scotland and the world, named from an old Scots word for wandering.Under a mile 1 min by road
  3. The River Kelvin through trees, the arches of Inn Deep below the bridge.Inn DeepAn independent craft beer bar with thirty-three taps in the railway arches below Great Western Road, by the River Kelvin, with pizza by Sub Rosa.Under a mile 1 min by road
  4. Voltaire & RousseauVoltaire & RousseauGlasgow's oldest secondhand bookshop, a labyrinth of shelves and stacks on Otago Lane by the Kelvin, with rare books and a shop cat.Under a mile 2 min by road
  5. Gothic sandstone buildings with turrets and spires enclose a quadrangle lawn, a bare tree standing at its centre.University of GlasgowThe Gothic university on Gilmorehill, founded in 1451 and here since 1870, with its cloisters, quadrangles, Memorial Chapel and the Hunterian, open to walk round.Under a mile 2 min by road
  6. Museum gallery with cast-iron balconies, glass display cases and a central skeleton exhibitHunterian Museum and Art GalleryScotland's oldest museum, opened in 1807 on William Hunter's bequest, in the university's Gothic building on Gilmorehill: Roman stones, dinosaurs and Kelvin's instruments, free.Under a mile 2 min by road
  7. Kelvingrove ParkKelvingrove ParkSir Joseph Paxton's park of the 1850s along the River Kelvin, the first designed park in Scotland, round Kelvingrove museum and below the university.Under a mile 3 min by road
Directions
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