Peter McKenna from The Gannet on his Glasgow

Co-founder and head chef of Glasgow’s Gannet tells us about his favourite places in the city

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00:00Your own Glasgow, where are the places that you really cherish and gravitate towards?

00:04What would be your kind of weekend places and places where you're not in the kitchen?

00:08When I first moved to Glasgow, I lived in the Gorbals and I bought a place in the Gorbals in St. Francis rig

00:15and so I used to love going to Sharky's. I used to love going to the Brazen Head right on my doorstep.

00:22You know, go and watch the matches.

00:25But then

00:26since I opened the Gannett, we've moved over to the West End. It makes sense, you know, we're here,

00:31we're working in the West End and we work a lot. So it's good to have everything at your footstep.

00:36So I live up beside the Botanics. So I like going down to the Wee Bar in the Chip.

00:40You know, even since Collins moved on, the Wee Bar is still a brilliant place to hang out.

00:46It's an oasis in the madness, say, in the West End.

00:51The Bell. I love going to the Bell, especially in the winter when they've got the fire going.

00:56And then the food scene here. It's brilliant. Brilliant.

00:59All the rise of all the Asian restaurants around the Barton Road. I'm always in and out of those.

01:04Like I said before, Oonalum for fine dining. It's a brilliant spot.

01:10Bar Brett, what Colin's doing is fantastic.

01:13You know, it's really vibrant. Glasgow is so vibrant.

01:16The food scene, the music scene, as I mentioned before, I love going to gigs.

01:21And luckily for us, everybody who's doing a tour, they come to Glasgow.

01:25It's one of the stops. And they don't just come to Glasgow. They love coming to Glasgow.

01:30And a lot of them bands have come in and out of the Gannet.

01:33You know, especially the Irish bands, we've got a connection.

01:36And I won't go dropping any names, but you'll always see them if they're touring the city.

01:42You'd drop a couple.

01:43You know, you could. My mate Curly, he's the guitarist of the Fontaines.

01:47He was doing a DJ night in, where was it, King Tut's recently.

01:52So he was on the blower looking for a table in the restaurant.

01:55And I'm sure when they come back to the Hydro, he'll be on the blower again.

01:59But good guy. Worked in a great bar in Monaghan once upon a time.