Kitty O'Shea's
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About Kitty O'Shea's
On Waterloo St in Glasgow, Kitty O'Shea's is an Irish pub that doubles as a music venue, with live acts on both floors on weekends. The menu runs to modern mains, and the bar stocks dozens of bottled beers alongside a draught selection that includes Guinness. Multiple screens show football for anyone dropping in outside the music nights. It operates on a walk-in basis, with no reservations needed. Door staff check entry, and the pub sits close to central station with parking nearby, making it straightforward to reach before heading in for a pint or a set upstairs.
Good to know
“Modern music venue often with hard rock groups, serving modern mains and dozens of bottled beers.”
- ReservationsWalk-in only
Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention live music, bouncers denying entry, guinness and draught beers.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention live music, bouncers denying entry, guinness and draught beers.
Customer Review Summary
Live music draws most reviewers back, with several calling it brilliant or outstanding and one describing the atmosphere as unreal. Close behind, drinkers point to decent Guinness, a good choice of draught beers, and gins mixed with Schweppes tonic and fruit at seven pounds each. Friendly, attentive staff and screens for football also get mentioned. The recurring and serious complaint centers on door staff: multiple reviewers describe being refused entry without cause, including two sober couples turned away outright, a woman denied entry twice by the same bouncer, and one solo female reviewer told she couldn't enter alone because it was deemed unsafe. Several call this pattern of door policy the reason they wouldn't return, contrasting sharply with the praise for the music and drinks once inside.
Customer Review Summary
Live music draws most reviewers back, with several calling it brilliant or outstanding and one describing the atmosphere as unreal. Close behind, drinkers point to decent Guinness, a good choice of draught beers, and gins mixed with Schweppes tonic and fruit at seven pounds each. Friendly, attentive staff and screens for football also get mentioned. The recurring and serious complaint centers on door staff: multiple reviewers describe being refused entry without cause, including two sober couples turned away outright, a woman denied entry twice by the same bouncer, and one solo female reviewer told she couldn't enter alone because it was deemed unsafe. Several call this pattern of door policy the reason they wouldn't return, contrasting sharply with the praise for the music and drinks once inside.
Featured reviews
- Google user
“Absolutely loved the live music here!! Great place to have a drink and sing along.”
- Google user
“Absolute joke of a place. Me and my sister have went well tried 3 weekends in a row as me and my friends went a month prior and enjoyed the atmosphere. Me and my sister are both of age and have been denied entry twice now but the same older bald bouncer who has a really nasty attitude and denying us entry for absolutely no reason. Wouldn’t recommend one in Glasgow, west end much better much.”
- Google user
“Door men denied my entry because I was a solo female. I was informed that it is “unsafe” that I enter alone, I was sober and have never been denied entry from a venue previously because of being solo. Surely it is a hospitable Irish pub inside? if you are allowed in to find out. Door men far from hospitable.”
- Google user
“Went here on Sunday night for a few , bloody blown away.. absolutely fantastic place service is brilliant the atmosphere was unreal.. and the live music was brilliant 🤘 everyone was just so friendly what more could u ask for brilliant! Definitely recommend”
- Google user
“Live music was the reason we went there on Sunday evening, unfortunately at some point football was more important. We had two gins, they mixed both with Schweppes tonic and random fruit. Still tasted okay. 7 bucks per drink were alright”
Location
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| Place | Rating | Distance | Mentioned in reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kitty O'Shea's | 4.41,317 | — | live music, bouncers denying entry, guinness |
| MaltmanReservations · Wheelchair accessible · Good for kids | 4.21,629 | 0.2 mi | steak pie, haggis neeps and tatties, thistly cross cider |
| Times Square GlasgowReservations · Outdoor seating · Wi-Fi | 3.8957 | 0.3 mi | highland burger with haggis, cajun chicken pasta, table service issues |
| The Old Toll BarWheelchair accessible | 4.7658 | 0.9 mi | victorian/original interior, beamish on tap, craft beer selection |
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