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With a newly established alcohol-free night, this 'forward thinking' drinking establishment in Glasgow's east-end hopes to improve the well-being of staff and punters alike.

It's something you might expect to see in Shoreditch or Notting Hill but now a bar in Glasgow's East-End has decided to go completely alcohol-free! Well, for one out of seven nights a week anyway.

The relatively new pub has recently begun to operate a dry bar on Monday evenings featuring non-alcoholic beers, 'groundbreaking Scottish soft drinks' and 'innovative cocktails'.

These alcohol-free nights offer an incentive for people who would like to introduce more wellness into their day-today lives.

Bartender Phil Robins told ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland's The Nine, how they're hoping to break the stereotype that bars only mean alcohol.

"I've struck up a lot of nice conversations with people who have maybe had a problem with their relationship with alcohol in the past and I think that a pub can be a real daunting place if you've been through something like that."

"But again what we want to do is encourage the social element and that there are people out there that just want to chat and you can start to re-integrate."

Situated just across the road from the iconic Barrowlands Ballroom, The Gate calls itself a 'modern Scottish pub'. If their Instagram launch video is anything to go by, revamping the pub trade is right at the top of their to-do list.

And although a caring, sharing drinking house does seem to go a little against the grain their outreach doesn't end with the customers.

"Every month we put together a series of workshops and demonstrations geared at people working in the trade."

"The idea being that if you can start to implement small positive changes in your life, you can feed that into your productivity, your energy levels, maybe sleeping better and by default that means that the people who come into your bar kind of benefit from that as well."

Judging by recent clientele , they are succeeding in putting themselves on the map as a Scottish pub with a difference.

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