The Laurieston is set to extend their opening hours into the late hours this festive season

Historic Glasgow pub, The Laurieston, announced this week (Tuesday, December 3) that they would be open until 1am every Friday and Saturday of the festive season.

The pub will also open until 1am on Hogmanay, Tuesday December 31. However Glaswegians can expect the popular boozer to be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Day, and January 2.

Sitting on Bridge Street in Glasgow’s Gorbals District, The Laurieston is a neighbourhood local alongside a bar that is well known to generations of students from the Glasgow Subcrawl and a hub for music fans and local bands due to its proximity to the O2 Academy.

Franz Ferdinand, Bobby Gillespie, Saoirse Ronan and Ewan MacGregor have visited for pints and pies over the years. The Laurieston’s traditional bar has featured in films and television shows, most recently in an episode of Succession.

Last year The Laurieston was sold to a new owner after 40 years of stewardship under the Clancy family. Not much has changed since the new owners took it over, but that’s just how the punters like it. The pub is an institution, a time capsule of old school Glasgow boozers, and a place that should be treasured by Glaswegians.

If you’re heading down to The Laurieston this Christmas, make sure to get yourself a pint of Guinness from the middle tap, it’s the best pint of stout you can find in the city. Hands down.

To our knowledge at least, it’s the only pub in Glasgow that offers middle tap Guinness. The difference between a middle tap as opposed to your standard Guinness tap is that it is served at cellar temperature, it doesn’t go through a chiller - which standard Guinness does once and extra cold does twice.

It’s a cash-only bar so bear that in mind, but the service is no-nonsense, friendly, and pretty rapid at peak times.