Miss Cranston S Tea Rooms

Mackintosh at the willow operates as a not for profit social enterprise creating training learning employment and other opportunities and support for young people and communities.

Miss cranston s tea rooms.

King mcgaw has an extensive collection of art prints by established and emerging artists which are all framed by hand in the uk. Mackintosh at the willow operates as a social enterprise and some of our waiting staff who ll serve you and our kitchen staff are young princes trust scotland trainees. The location selected by miss cranston for the new tearooms was a four storey former warehouse building on a narrow infill urban site on the south side of sauchiehall street. Our tea rooms are open daily monday to saturday 9am to 5pm and sundays 10am 5pm.

The street and surrounding area are part of the new town of blythswood created largely by william harley of blythswood square in the early 1800s. With a selection of loose teas and freshly ground coffees freshly made cakes scones soups and sandwiches there s plenty to choose from all enjoyed in the stunning historic surroundings designed by charles rennie mackintosh for miss kate cranston. The name sauchiehall is derived from saugh the scots word for a willow. The willow tea rooms trust was established in 2014 as a charity with the aim of acquiring miss cranston s tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow the building is now in ownership of the trust.

Miss cranston s buchanan street tearooms 1896 by charles rennie mackintosh. With the opening of her art tea rooms miss cranston was the first to offer men and women a beautiful and cheerful place to meet in a city where industrialization was making life of people more and more difficult and grim. The team at the willow tea rooms view our menus at buchanan street inspired by the works of charles rennie mackintosh the tea rooms are modelled on kate cranston s ingram street tea rooms from the early 1900s. Now that the trust have succeeded in restoring the building to its former glory it continues to focus its effort on the advancement of the arts heritage and culture by.

Catherine cranston 27 may 1849 18 april 1934 widely known as kate cranston or miss cranston was a leading figure in the development of tea rooms she is nowadays chiefly remembered as a major patron of charles rennie mackintosh and margaret macdonald in glasgow scotland the name of miss cranston s tea rooms lives on in reminiscences of glasgow in its heyday.