Zennor Coffee roast their own beans and pour them here, at their original East End café. Single origins are named to individual producer level with tasting notes on every cup, and a rare lots programme sits alongside the house range for when you want to go further.

Grain and Grind roasts its own coffee and Duke Street is where you drink it. John's single-origin programme comes with tasting notes, altitude, and processing detail on the board.

An independent in Dennistoun doing espresso with more intention than most in the area. Prices undercut the chains; the coffee doesn't.

Green beans hand-roasted to order in front of you, brewed in a clay jug with ginger and cinnamon, served with popcorn and homemade biscuits at a shared table. The Ethiopian and Eritrean coffee ceremony, unhurried, in Dennistoun.

The cortado arrives properly made and the milk is textured, not just heated. Reliable on Duke Street when the morning has standards.

Dennistoun's brunch café with a local crowd that knows what it's doing. Coffee is a consistent positive; the food menu is the reason you stay.

The owner blends the house coffee rather than buying in a standard supplier mix, which is more thought than most neighbourhood spots give it. Go for the cappuccino.

Near Glasgow Cathedral, independently run, and capable of impressing a Melbourne regular on espresso. The kind of café that takes coffee seriously without making a fuss about it.