Glasgow West End

The Gardener is a botanically inspired bar on Ashton Lane in Glasgow’s West End, serving cocktails, artisan coffee and food throughout the day.


The Gardener

Plenty of plants and natural light, which makes it a nice place to sit and relax. The food is mainly brunch-style dishes and well prepared. Staff were friendly, and there’s a good range of beers and coffee. A good spot to stop in if you’re wandering around the West End of Glasgow, just off Byres Road in Ashton Lane.

Hold on to your wallets, my elderly mother in law, went there to treat her grandchildren, and they gave her a bill for £143, but she later discovered they had taken £860 from her. We’ve been fighting a month to get the money back and they ignore all my emails, and every time u call the manager just tells me to email… they keep paying small amounts back but never the full £716 overpayment! They put 6 card payments through, so they took 6 service charges! Disgusting tactic.

The visit was during the Christmas holiday and may have contributed to the quietness of the restaurant. The food was ok but I found the onion rings a little greasy for my taste. The smashed burger was huge and my companion could only eat half. They made a chicken Caesar salad which wasn’t on the menu inside but had been shown on the menu outside. The salad was well received but beware it comes with actual anchovies. I had the chicken burger which was nice but again huge.

From city centre we took the subway to visit Glasgow University- very impressive and definitely you should visit if you’re in Glasgow- and while we were in that neighbourhood, we took a break at the Gardener for some bites and drink. Great atmosphere, staff members are very friendly and kind! We enjoyed the atmosphere!!!

Lovely time at the gardener, took my family out for my mums birthday drinks and couldn’t recommend more. Would like to give a special shout out to the bar staff, especially one blonde girl who I think was called Ava, she went over and beyond and really helped out my 90y/o gran pick a suitable drink, very bubbly and energetic the young girl made the whole day even better.

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