Ottoman Coffeehouse CIC

04/10/2026

Step through the door, leave Glasgow at the threshold. Lantern light, skylights overhead, and a room full of people taking their time. This is Ottoman Coffeehouse.
📍 Glasgow

Ranked No.1 in the UK by

04/10/2026

03/10/2026

Hanna works at Ottoman Coffeehouse and has been with us for many years. Now she’s doing something most people would never dare to do, she’s stepping into the ring at Glasgow Fight Night.

It takes a certain kind of courage to put yourself on the line like that. To train for 9 weeks and stand under those lights with 1100 people watching. She’s already a winner for me.

The last event sold out in 5 seconds. So if you want to be there when Hanna fights, get yourself a ticket.

TICKETS ON SALE 6th OCTOBER AT 10AM.
Tickets: £38 (£35 + £3.50 booking fee).

Date: Monday 16th November, 2026
Venue: The Galvanizers, SWG3
Doors Open: 5.30pm
First Bout: 6.30pm
Close: 11pm
Dress Code: Black Tie Optional, wear Black Tie if you fancy it, or keep it open collar and comfortable. Your call.

Tickets are non refundable, but will be refunded if the event is postponed or cancelled.

LOCATION
SWG3, G3 8QG.

30/09/2026

What happens when a coffee shop becomes yours?

Every town has that one spot.

The one where you take out of town friends because you want to show it off, where you’ve had first dates and the difficult conversations and the Sunday morning catch ups with people you love.

The coffeeshop that got you through that brutal winter, the tough university year, the job you hated.

The one where the barista knows your order before you reach the counter. Where you have a usual table. Where walking through that door feel like returning home.

You can get coffee anywhere.

But you can only get this here.

And once you’ve had that? It’s really hard to go back to your usual coffee shop.

And for the comments on our social media? Sometimes it’s polished. Sometimes it’s random. Sometimes it doesn’t look great.

Kind of like all of us.

Because we’re human and humans are messy.

We show up how we show up, that’s exactly what makes this place feel like yours.

So apologies for the random off topic posts.

27/09/2026

Chains are run by machines and management teams. Indie shops are run by people who are terrified, passionate and mad in equal measure.

6pm on a Saturday. The shop is full.

The grinder is getting hot, steam is hitting the ceiling, and there’s a couple arguing in the corner about something, would be interesting to know what, maybe he's deciding to buy a Porsche, doesn’t matter. People are laughing, some of the laughter sounds like an exorcism, many come here to read. To you, it looks like a vibe. To me? It’s controlled chaos.

For every smooth Saturday night, like this, there were years of uncontrolled chaos. Years of getting it wrong. Where I stared at the empty room, dreaming, wondering, if It would work.

Most days, this job is just fixing what broke and trying to keep the lights on. Doing the rota, Getting stock, missing the kids. Back pain, Always tired, You don’t see the panic behind the operation (hopefully). That’s our job to hide.

Shops like ours don’t survive because the coffee alone is good. We survive because you guys choose to walk past the big chains. You choose to forgive a mistake instead of slamming us on Google. You guys let a family business exist by giving us a chance when we mess up.

More than 80% of you prefer independents. That’s the difference between a generic high street and a street with soul.

We’re starting a series. The real stuff. Mopping floors at midnight, the thin margins, the why, the arguments, But for tonight? Tonight was good because you guys showed up.

We're grateful for a full stomach, a place to call home, our children who are safe. We know that's not everyone's story, not in this city, not in the world. But we can be a small, warm room on a cold street.

Safety and a full plate are not small things. ♥️

25/09/2026

A huge thank you to every single one of you 🫶

Whether you walked through our door or helped spread the word about us by word of mouth, we wouldn’t have lasted a year, never mind 10, if it weren’t for this local community. You are the reason we’re still here, and we never take that for granted.

We did want to address one small point though.

We keep pushing ourselves out there, competitions, SCA, Workdbestcoffee, awards, magazines, whenever the opportunity arises. But there are two things we’ll never do:

1. We won’t accept awards that don’t align with us morally
2. We will never pay for an award.

Any award, entry, or review we’ve ever received, we have never paid for. We’ve never paid for influencers or news articles about Ottoman Coffeehouse. Every bit of recognition we’ve earned, we’ve earned honestly.

We recently turned down an award because the sponsors behind it don’t align with the values we hold dear.

To finish off, We don’t want to be an international brand. We’re happy being a local Glasgow brand. This is our home, this is where we’re comfortable. This is our home ground. ☕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thank you for 10 years. Here’s to many more, together.

25/09/2026

The Turk only at Ottoman Coffeehouse

21/09/2026

Ottom Coffeehouse a coffee experience like no other

21/09/2026

What are we actually doing here? People come in, order a coffee, sit down. We get up, go to work, serve the coffee, work the shift, go home, get old, and then we’re gone.

Is that it? Run the race, get tired, get old, die. And we’re supposed to act like the finish line means something?

So what’s the secret? Doing what you love, or doing what pays, or some impossible mix of the two?

I’ve read a lot of rubbish online. Work hard and the reward will come. Be consistent and it’ll pay off. I’ve said that to people myself.

But I met farmers in Kenya who grow the beans. Working in that scorching heat, day after day. Up early. More consistent and harder working than anyone I know. Still barely enough. Still struggling. Where is their reward?

I’ve met some of the most beautiful people you could ever meet. They waited for life to get better. It never did. They left the world, last moments in a bed, still waiting.

I can’t accept that’s the end. That none of it means anything. Not the farmers. Not the children. Not the ones who died waiting. We can’t just be matter that wears out.

Look for purpose, for answers. Try to be a more complete human, not a busier one.

Things don’t always work out. It took us twenty years of hard struggle. When I look back now, I don’t even understand how we managed to get through. There were times I couldn’t see a way forward.

Not everything is easy. Some things never get easy. But we need to reach out. There are good people out there. People who showed up when we had nothing to offer them, who believed in us before we believed in ourselves. We didn’t do it alone, and I don’t know why we ever thought we had to.

19/09/2026

There’s a coffee shop on Berkeley Street that doesn’t really feel like a coffee shop. It feels like your grandparent’s living room, if your grandparent had travelled everywhere and never threw anything away. Students, builders, toddlers, professionals, they all drift through it, past the antiques, like they’re in the same dream.

It’s called Ottoman Coffeehouse, and it’s run by two brothers. They’ve got V60 drippers and all sorts of contraptions that look like they belong in a lab. But the heart of it is old fashioned, maybe because the brothers are also old. Their filter coffee, always rotating, is one of the best black coffees you’ll find anywhere.

And it turns out the world agrees. It was named the 38th best coffee shop on the planet and 6th in Europe, out of more than 15,000.

But that’s not why people come back.

So why go? To find a bit of Istanbul in Glasgow. To drink coffee that’s been voted among the best in the world. And to see for yourself that one small room on Berkeley Street can hold the whole beating heart of a community.

- Rachel Weber

Come for the coffee. Stay because of the Glasgow hospitality and someone remembered your name.