Willow Tearooms

Glasgow City, United Kingdom

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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You can eat here: Café · Tea

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At 217 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, the Willow Tearooms stand as Charles Rennie Mackintosh's only surviving tearoom design, opening in October 1903 for entrepreneur and patron Miss Catherine Cranston. This Art Nouveau masterpiece quickly became the most celebrated of Glasgow's many early twentieth-century tearooms. The building deteriorated over decades of changing ownership and use until 2014, when the Willow Tea Rooms Trust acquired it to preserve the structure and its contents. A comprehensive restoration, largely faithful to Mackintosh's original designs, was completed in 2018, after which the tearooms reopened for business. Now owned by the National Trust for Scotland and redesignated "The Mackintosh Tearooms" in 2026, the building is listed as a Category A heritage structure, securing its place as one of Scotland's architectural treasures.