Welcome to Merchant City, Glasgow's cultural, fashion and food quarter. Here you'll find streets full of stately architecture and funky independent shop fronts, excellent dining to suit all budgets, lively nightlife, exciting gallery spaces, great music and theatre, and wonderful boutiques. Check our blog and events calendar for regular updates on what's happening, and join us on Twitter or Facebook for dining offers, shopping news and much, much more.

Our regularly updated Flickr page will give you a great taste of the colours, sights and atmosphere of the city's most vibrant, bustling area. Come on in. The water's lovely!

Recent blog entries

Maggie May

This month we met with the creative & talented Paul McJimpsey of Get Loose Promotions, a.k.a Jlo the resident promoter for Merchant City’s muso hot spot Maggie Mays! (Amongst a host of other great Scottish venues su [...] Read more

Thali : Authentic Indian Tapas

For all you Indian food lovers, we introduce to you, drum roll please! Thali , ‘Authentic Indian Tapas’! Since opening its doors in 2008 Thali owner Harmeet Dilber and his clever team have been committed to deliv [...] Read more