West End food tour
Take a food odyssey around the West End of Glasgow, along the popular Great Western Road and down to the historic dockyard area of the Clyde River.
- Theme
- Food & Drink
- Location
- West End, Glasgow
- Duration
- 5 hours 30 minutes
- Designer
- Barry Pickard
Experience
Route
Loop & Scoop
The gelato at Loop & Scoop is handmade in small batches using their Italian family recipe since 1925 with the best local, natural and sustainable ingredients.
Papercup
World class coffee in espresso, milk, hot or cold formats. Alongside this, Papercup pair a small but hugely interesting menu where the focus is on ethical and sustainable produce like organic meats and fresh farm eggs.
Cottonrake Bakery
Independent bakery delivering the highest standard in pastries and bakes.
I. J. Mellis Cheesemonger
I.J. Mellis offer a traditional, old fashioned sense of service and style whilst using modern technology to maintain and enhance the unique characteristics of artisan cheese. Other specialist foods are also supplied.
Roots Fruits & Flowers
Roots Fruits & Flowers is not just a shop, but a hub for those passionate about environmentally conscious food, locally sourced products and quality bespoke blooms.
Garden Fresh Exotics
Garden Fresh Exotics caters for your every culinary need, specializing in the best local and exotic fruit and veg as well as many world foods.
Eusebi Restaurant & Delicastessen
Freshly made Italian dishes are available to take home, or take advantage of their wide selection of imported pastas, wine, cheeses and meats to take the love home with you.
Lord Kelvin Statue
A bronze statue of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), sculpted by Archibald Macfarlane Shannan and cast by JW Singer.
The Dockyard Social
Dockyard Social is a street food market with the community at its heart. A true taste of global comfort food. 10 food traders, with multiple themed bars and resident DJs.
Practicalities
- Take a bag, since you may wish to buy food to take home as you go along this route
About
This route was designed by Barry Pickard in collaboration with Uptaste.
Barry Pickard
Specialising in European and North American destinations, as well as a number of other countries around the world, I have designed self-guided tours for city based visits; multi-stop road trips; family, group and couples vacations; as well as themed excursions. Experienced in designing walking tours, driving tours and robotaxi experiences. A history graduate, with a great eye for detail, my passion for travel and research has found its apogee in designing fun, interesting and thoughtful trips
Uptaste
What is Uptaste? We’re something like a travel agency business (although we don’t sell flights or hotels). Instead, we specialise in finding the right place to eat, wherever and whenever you are, using location intelligence combined with expert and community curation. Uptaste destinations will rarely be restaurants; they’ll be shops, they’ll be street traders, they’ll be local markets, or some other easy-to-miss but hard-to-forget place.