Gordon St Coffee

How very, very nice — good atmosphere, good size, good staff, good coffee and good food! Can’t say much more really — well done! EAT HERE!

Gordon Street Coffee is in a very handy location at the entrance to Central Station. There is a great range of bagged coffees (whole beans and ground) to take away. They have a loyalty scheme that means you get your seventh bag free. I love the Glasgow Roast coffee and now find Nescafe just doesn’t cut it for me at work anymore :-)
They also stock Drygate beers including an espresso stout. I haven’t tried the food yet but the sandwiches and cakes look great and I will definitely eat there soon. The staff are very friendly and approachable.

I often pop into Gordon street, often for a Glasgow Roast Latte, sometimes for some coffee beans to take home. I pass through central at least twice a day! It’s hard not to pop in more often ;)
I love their Glasgow Roast Latte, it is one of my favourite take away coffees in town. However it is a little on the pricey side, £2.70 or £2.80 as there’s a wee added charge for Glasgow Roast. :(they also sell filter coffee by the cup, usually with a couple of options each day, which can be lovely depending on the coffee the have on that day. It’s a little less pricey too :)
I like getting their beans to brew at home, they are always pretty freshly ground which is great and have a coffee of the week which is only £5 instead of £7 which is pretty reasonable compared with other local roasters. They also have a loyalty scheme for their beans where you get your 5^th or 6^th bag free which is great! :)
The rolls and hot food always look great, and the cakes are yum! Supplied by Big Bear Bakery, you can’t go wrong :) I love the little pieces of marshmallow they sell, perfect to go with a wee coffee if you’re waiting on the train. My one gripe with their food is the only veggie breakfast roll is just a potato scone roll, for £2.50! I’ve got a coffee to go and went and got a roll to go from else where more than once, I just can’t bring my self to pay that for a potato scone?! Madness.
It’s somewhere I’ll be back to time and time again though, and the staff are usually pretty friendly and efficient, especially on a busy morning!

I must have walked past this place hundreds of times but, not ever having been a coffee drinker before, there was never any point in me venturing inside. However, times have changed, and I’m on a journey of coffee discovery…
I ordered an Americano, and shyly asked what sort of coffee it was. The first girl didn’t know! I thought coffee places were supposed to be able to reel off info aplenty about beans and roasts and other technical coffee stuff. The second girl sort of knew — it’s a blend of 4 different beans, created to taste quite mild and sweet. It’s easier to drink that the Dear Green, which is very dark tasting apparently (I have yet to find out!).
I quite liked it, it did taste sort of sweet, and not too bitter. It was £2 for a ‘Wee Americano’. A big one was £2.30.
I didn’t order anything else — it looks like they sell a fine selection of sandwiches, and lots of cakes, but there was nothing that seemed suitable for vegans.
I had my coffee to take-​away, so there was no real time to soak up the atmosphere in the place. What I did notice though, was that they have screens showing the train departure times, which is very handy. So next time I’m waiting on a delayed train, I now know that I can pop in here, and wait in a comfortable environment rather than the cold platform.

I was very disappointed by Gordon Street Coffee. As an out of town coffee freak I had my short list of essential places to visit, for coffee, tea and brunch, before I’d even arrived and Gordon St was amongst the top three!
So it was the day after Boxing Day and I needed somewhere for breakfast and as this place was one of the few ‘independent’ options open it seemed the ideal time to pop along. Unfortunately there was little in the way of food and the grumpy assistant just pointed me towards another grumpy assistant working a hot plate with bacon, black pudding and such like. So, it was a bacon roll for me then. I also ordered a flat white.
Looking around the place seemed like a good idea at one time, but clearly needed a good clean. All the ‘brand’ BS stuff was there to demonstrate this was a ‘real coffee shop’. But actually as I watch the barista performing his duties I knew he had no idea. He banged out the portafilter and immediately replaced the grounds with fresh. No cleaning out the old grounds first. Just lazy. He didn’t really watch what he was doing as he tamped the coffee and then fiddled to get the portafilter into the machine — has he made espresso before? Out came the coffee. Seemed to be extracting too slow from what I could see. The woman at the till helped him with the milk. No latte art, mediocre consistency to the milk. Pretty much a mess in a glass.
But I needed coffee by now … so I took my bacon roll and drink upstairs. There’s a scruffy looking guy with a expansive Keith Lemon bandage on one wrist fiddling with the roaster they have up there. He didn’t have the fluid movements of someone who knew what exactly he was doing. He loaded the roaster up and off it went. He seemed bored and miserable … and actually the whole staff ‘team’ (I say team!) seemed to be in a major grump-​on. Maybe this is normal. Maybe they didn’t want to be working Sunday. I dunno. The whole vibe stunk.
So the bacon bit was good, but just 1 ½ pieces meant it was a meagre offering at best. The roll was fresh enough but nothing special and completely dry. No butter. The coffee was amongst the worst I’ve tried in an ‘indi’ place. Frankly embarrassing. Way too hot, wrong size glass, deadly bitter (in a bad way — due to water temperature and extraction!) and just barely drinkable. I sipped what I could to get my simple caffeine kick but left half of it!
At the end of the day it’s all about the staff and all about the standards. I’m afraid on my one visit neither were anywhere near good enough. But this is a train station location and so regulars are probably less important than they might be for a standard indi coffee house. They’re more geared up to transit customers who they’ll likely never see again, so why do they care … the till still rings. But what about pride?

Simply one of the best coffee shops in Glasgow. Rare is it to find decent coffee this side of Italy, but Gordon Street does Glasgow proud with lots of their own delicious blends. Their Glasgow roast is always available and is my personal favourite — it’s a lot stronger and richer than the regular blend so a good choice for anyone who likes their cuppa Joe to pack a punch.
Bonus points go to Gordon Street for their fantastic app! Download Gordon St. Coffee and you’ll have a nifty loyalty programme in your pocket. Scan the QR code in the shop every time you buy a coffee — and you’ll get your 7^th free. Even better, you get a free coffee for simply downloading the app — no need to buy anything at all.
It’s a small but cosy place, perfect for a quick meeting — I always find excuses to go there for one. Sandwiches on rustic bread with loads of fillings to choose from means it’s a winner for a working lunch.
Did someone mention cake? Rivaling the veritable smörgåsbord of cake selection in the heart of Glasgow — Gordon Street’s will call out to you, and you’re going to want to take them all home. The pecan brownie is devine, as are the croissants and pain au chocolats.
Go get your caffeine fix!

Although I live in Manchester now, I like to keep an eye on the Glasgow scene — mostly for nostalgia, but also for tips of where to try out when I make trips home, and this is one of the places that I heard a buzz around. And as it happens that buzz was totally justified.
I popped in here after having my nails done by the wonderful Tammy at Naf Salon and the super sweet Barista noticed my nails straight away where we proceeded to chat about nail art and I pointed her in the direction go the salon. On to the coffee, I had my standard skinny latte — with the Glasgow roast — which was honestly one of the best cups of coffee I’ve ever had. It certainly fuelled my journey to the Necropolis. I loved the coffee so much in fact that I went again on Sunday and picked up some of the ground Glasgow Roast to bring home with me, along with some of the cold brew coffee for the journey down.
After sharing some of the Glasgow Roast with the girls at work, it’s safe to say there are a few Gordon St Coffee fans South of the border.

Such a funky little coffee shop. Reckon you can find somewhere else where they roast their own coffee beans and yet manage to stay so un-​pretentious? Because if so, please point me that way.
I arrived at ~17:00 on a Thursday evening. The shop was busy, the staff were up to their eyeballs in orders and I still managed to get served a perfect, delicious, smooth latte in under two minutes. The fact that I’d downloaded their loyalty app (better than carrying yet another card, get it on Android and iPhone for a free drink when you’ve bought 6) and had no idea how to use it did not slow them down one iota.
I went upstairs to meet my friend. As others have mentioned here, smokers do tend to congregate near the downstairs entrance. Nothing the coffee shop can do about that, I suppose, but it is unpleasant. He was delighted with his pot of tea and mini bottle of milk. We were tempted to stick around for a pilsner afterwards but, it being a school night, decided to be more sensible. However, since I see that they’re open fair late this might well become a new favourite spot for a coffee or a drink before catching a train.

Many moons ago, I declared that the best coffee in Glasgow came from another place (I won’t name them here… they’ve done nothing wrong, just been surpassed, I guess) but the time has come to change my opinion.
There is no finer supplier of caffeine than here — and the sister stall under the clock in Central Station — in Glasgow.
Every time I’ve had a glorious caffeine filled blue cup of joy and goodness from here, I’ve felt the urge to go back and get another one. Or two. Or three… you get the picture.
The staff are exceptionally helpful, friendly and smiley at all times, and they make excellent recommendations on roasts, cakes and the likes. The loyalty card and app are tremendous ideas, I’ve already claimed 2 or 3 free drinks from them this year. That may say more about my addiction to caffeine than anything else, but there you go…
In any case… the location is ideal for people on the go, there’s some seats if you want to stay inside, and there’s even a departure board so you can keep an eye on your train times.
Glasgow’s new and reigning King Of Coffee…

This coffee shop is exactly what Central Station needed. It is so much nicer than any of the alternatives and I am not ashamed to admit turning up to the station deliberately early and having to kill time ordering a take away coffee and normally cake to make my journey home much more pleasurable.
The coffee itself is kick ass awesome and the fact that the take away cups are the most gorgeous bluey colour always adds to my happy. The cake cabinet is the ruin of many of my healthy eating plans with treats too tempting for my feeble willpower. On my last visit I picked up a salted caramel chocolate tart that was even more awesome than it sounds, yes another one for the ate it too quick to photograph category!
I can’t understand how the Starbucks and Costa concessions in central are still open. Gordon Street coffee are leagues ahead in every single aspect.

Awful coffee, Costa-​clone. Avoid
I really, really dislike this shop. It’s completely fake. It markets itself as a modern quality focused independent café but is none of these things. You have a choice of two coffees, their house blend, (a poor traditional dark roast) or their «Glasgow roast» which tastes like it’s been baked in a wood fire stove for three hours. That horrible burnt smell that envelops Gordon Street every now and then… that’s them burning the beans in the roastery upstairs!
I’ve visited several times and none of the staff have ever seemed the least bit passionate or knowledgeable about what they do or particularly interested in providing good service. They certainly are not well trained as they use similar methods to Costa/​Nero etc. In fairness it’s a location that will attract a lot of unsavoury characters that they’ll have to put up with on a daily basis.
They also advertise other products like cold brew and filter coffee to mimick better quality shops. Whilst at the same time offering a bunch of syrups and a huge drink range like the big chains do. Trying to be everything to everyone doesn’t work. They do also offer some food but I’ve never fancied mac’n’cheese from a coffee shop.
This place is owned by a huge company who’ve simply tried to jump on the growing trends in the coffee market. They’ve bought cheap equipment, cheap coffee and don’t train their staff properly all so they can make the maximum money out of the people they lure into the shop. They’re so lazy even the stuff they write on the chalkboards is stolen off the Internet. The only thing they have going for them is that they are in a handy location for getting the train, but to be honest I’d rather suffer the headaches of caffeine withdrawal than have their coffee.

Gordon Street Coffee, looks like a fantastic place and they boast about roasting their own coffee. However, just because you can roast your own coffee does that mean you are any good at it? I’m really not convinced.
Personally, I don’t like the coffee in here. I’ve had the espresso a couple of times. It’s bitter and burnt tasting, acidic with absolutely no creaminess. The opposite of what it should really be like. The cappuccino I got one morning on the way to my train was also too hot as Glass C points out. I cannot stand boiling hot milk, it ruins the taste and burns my tongue.
Price wise, being located in Central Station its decent enough value. The coffee is sensibly priced, which is refreshing and the selection of sandwiches and cakes are good even if a little pricey.
Gordon Street also sells various ground coffees to go and our office regularly buys from here in order to keep us awake and working in tip top condition throughout the day. Bags are priced between £5 and £7 pounds and again I’ve found that the quality and tastes vary massively. Be sure to ask about the type of coffee you are buying as they often get very odd (sometimes experimental dare I say) roasts in. Some coffees I have really struggled to drink, so take note and be sure to go for something you know you’ll be into as its quite the hit on the old wallet.
All in all, nice place but not a fan of the coffee. I’ll be sticking to Costa Coffee in Central Station me thinks.

My biggest regret is that this place isn’t directly on my usual commute. Located both in and out of Glasgow Central railway station, Gordon Street coffee is a very welcome relief from the chains that occupy the rest of the station.
The menu doesn’t have iced coffee drinks (my one regret) and it only has a few syrups for those who prefer very sweet drinks, but what they do have is high quality. They offer two roasts of espresso to go in any of their drinks and they do the roasting in-​house. I’ve not tried every type of coffee but the ones I have have been superb. The cappuccinos are nice and foamy without being dry and the flat whites have beautiful microfoam.
I’ve not tried it but they serve both beer and prosecco. Certainly a nice option for if you’re with coffee drinking friends and want something a bit different. And a variety of teas and soft drinks if you’re not in the mood for either.
One can (reluctantly) not survive on coffee alone. Gordon Street coffee makes very good treats. At different times I’ve had a white chocolate and raspberry tart and a pork and black pudding sausage roll. They also have a daily fresh roast for sandwiches and a rotating stock of fresh treats.
There isn’t much seating but it’s not really designed to be used for long time café chats. It’s very much a train station location and they expect shorter visits. It’s still possible to find a seat though, but they’re not designed for long term visits.
They offer a 10% student discount and have a loyalty card app. The app is generous in that it only requires you to buy 6 drinks to get a free one.
I’m personally willing to detour to come here when I have the time. It’s a shame Queen Street doesn’t have something so good, so I’ll need to come here for my quality morning pick-​me-​up.

The first time I visited Gordon Street Coffee, I had low expectations. It’s in a train station so I would think it would be overpriced mediocre food. But Gordon Street totally blew my expectations away.
As a bit of a tea snob this is now one of my Glasgow go-​tos for great loose tea at a nice strength. I really like the blend they use, and they even serve it in metal tea pots.
On my most recent stop here, I was on my way to a Unilocal elite event with some time to kill and I was REALLY hungry. Practicing my inconsistent self control, I got a roast vegetable and bean salad. It was SO good. I was hugely disappointed when I got to the bottom and there was nothing left.
The next time I come, I want to try their crawfish salad sandwich. It looked amazing… so I really hope that’s an every day thing they serve.
Either way… I’m definitely coming back here.

When I first started at work I immediately noticed everyone had these gorgeous teal takeout cups. On close inspection, turns out it was Gordon St. I love the Glasgow Roast and have attended and loved the cupping class that they do!

I dropped in for a sandwich at lunchtime and was quite optimistic after seeing two roast joints ready and waiting to be carved. I chose the Ruben which consists of roast beef, swiss cheese and sauerkraut in a roll.
Unfortunately the beef was the consistancy of old leather. After much chewing I still had to swallow the bites whole. I ended up leaving a good bit of it on the plate which is unheard of for me!
The café itself is pleasant enough for a quick bite or coffee if you’re going to get a train. They have departure boards inside which is helpful but it can be quite noisy with the music combining with announcements and the sounds of the station. For me this place would be more of a pit stop than a destination.

It was a good old-​fashioned dreich day a few weekends ago when I sought refuge in Gordon St Coffee. I had passed so many busy coffee shops and when I saw a few seats available inside I was rather glad to get inside and warm up…
And warm up I did! Particularly upon seeing how well-​priced the coffees and food were. Gordon St Coffee roast and grind their own beans and it STILL costs less than a Costa or a Starbucks? SOLD! I had a latte and a hot ham and cheese roll. Now, when I say roll, this was more akin to a massive load of juicy gammon and a heap of smoked applewood cheddar on a huge brioche bun, served with a basil mayo and sliced tomato (which I had asked the girl if she could leave it off, as I don’t like it (I know, I’m weird.) but she either forgot or hadn’t heard me. No biggie!) And boy it was delicious. A simple ham and cheese roll it was not. Flavourful, not too salty and the cheese added a nice level of creaminess to proceedings.
And the coffee? Rich, slightly sweet and utterly warming, it really hit the spot. Any time I pass through Central now, I have to get myself a Gordon St Coffee. Costa and Starbucks can just toddle off now…

I don’t work in the city centre so it’s taken me a while to get here and I’m glad I did.
Slotted into a tiny space (don’t let the frontage fool you), with their own roaster upstairs, it’s another great example of the difference in quality an independent shop has over some chains.
A cappucino was first on the order but it didn’t take me long to be swayed by the chocolate and walnut brownie on offer, which was moistly deliciously chocolatey and scoffed sharpish!
The cappucino was good, not too bitter a roast, and a good temperature (I’ve seen other reviewers complain it’s too hot and not smooth, well they must be listening as mine was almost perfect (I’d put it up there close to papercup). There really is nothing quite like a nice dark, smooth coffee, the rich crema and glossy frothy always looks so inviting.
Only slight downside is that it’s a little small inside but the clever layout meant we managed to get a seat upstairs, right next to the shiny red roasting machine, a wonderous piece of engineering (but, alas, a little too large to fit in my kitchen). Also of note is the train departures board inside meaning no worrying if you are going to miss your train, smart thinking!
I’ve no doubt that, if I were to use Central Station everyday, I’d quickly become a regular here. The only downside is that Riverhill is pretty close which means, from now on, I’ll have a difficult decision to make for my caffeine fix!

This is a great addition to Glasgow Central station — a lovely, modern, industrial coffee shop where you can enjoy a relaxing drink while you wait for your train.
We had a seat downstairs (there’s also a mezzanine level) by the door as it was quite warm — downside being that the smokers outside the station were puffing their smoke inside so we didn’t end up staying too long. I checked out the offerings available and was going to get a tea, but at the last minute switched to a glass of prosecco as it seemed more sensible in the warm weather. I also got two pieces of the marshmallow — pear and passionfruit — and a slice of chocolate gluten free friand.
The prosecco was perfect and just £4.95 for a glass which I thought was not too bad. The highlight for me though was the pear and passionfruit marshmallow. Thanks to Pammi for insisting I get some, and thanks to the genius who made it! What a delight. It’s fruity, sweet and perfect to nibble on a warm day.
I really enjoyed our visit here before we descended the stairs to Alston — I can’t wait to return for a pot of tea with some more marshmallow.

This part of Central station has been vacant for what feels like forever, since the boot’s store that was once here closed its doors, it is good to see a new business start up.
Gordon street coffee shop is opened by the Glendola leisure group who plan to invest over a million pounds between their two new establishments creating 40 new jobs, with the second business down stairs a restaurant and bar called Alston bar and Beef, that could be accessed through the coffee shop.
The café area is bright and new, with plenty of original features still left to see, plenty of cakes with samples on offer, breakfast items available with a choice of coffees including The Glasgow roast.
Upstairs has seating for 20 people at the most but there is seating outside, plenty of plug sockets for your phone to charge or laptop, upstairs they have their coffee roaster, if you choose the right seat you can look down and see what’s happening at the counter.
Staff where nice & friendly and chatty,
Coffee was good, cakes are served on same plates as JD Weatherspoons, but that’s just the new Churchill pattern.
Definitely a place l would go back to and recommend