Glasgow's Southside is a patchwork of Victorian neighbourhoods south of the Clyde, with two great parks at its heart. Queen's Park looks over Langside, Battlefield and Strathbungo, where Alexander Thomson designed the first terrace on Moray Place, while Pollok Country Park holds Pollok House and the Burrell Collection. Shawlands, around Shawlands Cross, is a favourite place for shops and cafés, and the district stretches to Pollokshields, Pollok, the Gorbals and Cathcart. This page shares the brightest stories from south of the river.
Since reopening after a seven-year redevelopment, the Citz has welcomed more than 100,000 visitors, staged 377 performances and collected CATS Awards along the way.
Chef Zak Young, who has cooked at Cail Bruich and Unalome, has opened Vera on Nithsdale Road, a seasonal Southside restaurant designed to become part of locals' week.
The independent estate agency on Kilmarnock Road is handing its space to Glasgow artists, bakers and illustrators, giving them an affordable place to sell their work.
The not-for-profit sauna on McCulloch Street welcomed more than 6,000 people in its first six months and is home to Scotland's first wheelchair-accessible sauna.
The independent Scottish brand has brought expert-led reformer Pilates classes to Silverburn, giving its home community a new place to build strength and unwind.
Golfers from clubs across the west of Scotland competed across two divisions and a scratch category at the Southside parkland club in August 2026.
The community-first climbing centre inside an old church offers more than 60 lead routes, regularly reset boulder problems, a new dry tooling room and a popular cafe.
The refurbished members' snooker and pool club in Shawlands now offers digital darts, karaoke rooms, its own lager and plant-based Mexican food from Antojitos.
The Glasgow salon group's creative director Brian Leo McCallum was named UK Colour Expert, and the team took gold for Customer Service Salon at the Salon Business Awards.
Cryptic's biennial festival of audiovisual art and experimental music brought more than 170 artists from 22 countries to venues across Glasgow in autumn 2026.
The Glasgow School of Art graduate presented Return to the Garden, a 28-look collection inspired by the museum's treasures, with its galleries in Pollok Country Park as her catwalk.
The club on the south bank of the river near Glasgow Green hosted its 2026 regatta and head race, and has already set the date for next year's regatta.
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