Basement bar, Glasgow
Nightcaplive music & late cocktails
Down the stairs: a long bar, a small stage and a band six nights a week.
The bar
One more before home.
Nightcap sits under an old printworks on Candleriggs. Twenty-two steps down there is a long copper bar, eleven tables, a stage the size of a rug and a sign that has been flickering since 1968. We kept the sign.
Music starts at nine. The bar is open before and long after. Come for one drink and you will hear the second set.
Sable Quint, owner
This week
On the stage
Doors open ninety minutes before the band. Cover is paid at the door, tables are held for thirty minutes.
- 20Thu Nov Delphine OkoroSouthern soul and slow ballads, sung like the room is half its size.
- 21Fri Nov Wren Hollis TrioPiano trio standards, played slow enough to finish your drink.
- 22Sat Nov Otto Brand & The Late HoursA tenor sax, a big sound and a band that never checks the clock.
- 23Sun Nov Open stageThree songs each, a house band, and a list that opens at six.
- 26Wed Nov Tobiah Ness QuartetAlto saxophone and new tunes from a record that is not out yet.
Three levels down
Every room is a little later.
-
L0 From 17:00
The bar
Street level. A long copper bar, the window seats and the open stage on Sunday. Walk in, no booking.
-
B1 From 19:30
Stage room
Twenty-two steps down. Eleven tables, a standing rail and the band close enough to touch.
-
B2 From 23:00
Back room
Behind the curtain. Leather booths, records until three, and the room we hire out for private nights.
From the bar
Drinks for the second set
Six house cocktails, the classics done properly and a zero proof list we are proud of.
-
Last Call£12
Rye, amaro, smoked maple, orange oil
-
Velvet Hour£11
Gin, rose vermouth, raspberry, egg white
-
Night Bus£12
Vodka, cold brew, coffee liqueur, salted cream
-
Green Room£13
Mezcal, celery, lime, green chartreuse
Said about us
The best room in the city to hear a saxophone at one in the morning.
A bar that takes its music as seriously as its ice.
Go for the Friday trio, stay for the records in the back.
Private hire
Take the whole basement.
Birthdays, launches, a company night with a band of your choosing. Three rooms, from twenty guests to one hundred and twenty.
Find us
Look for the sign.
The door is between a print shop and a bakery. If the sign is lit, we are open.
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday to Thursday
- 17:00 to 01:00
- Friday and Saturday
- 17:00 to 03:00
- Sunday
- 16:00 to 00:00