A Scottish seafood vendor has just opened in Glasgow’s Dockyard Social

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Fish Bar has just opened in Dockyard Social, brining a street food experience of fresh seafood.

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00:00You good to go?

00:00Good to go, yeah.

00:01Good to go, right.

00:02So if you just start by introducing yourself.

00:04Yeah, so I'm Mickey.

00:06I'm the owner of Fish Bar in Glasgow.

00:09It trades out of the Dockyard Social in Finnistan.

00:11Who did it all start?

00:12I grew up in a seaside town and seafood was sort of everywhere.

00:16And I sort of thought of it as the norm that everyone eats a lot of seafood.

00:21But it's not really like that.

00:23A lot of people aren't that used to it.

00:26So it's an interesting way to think about food is where it comes from, really.

00:34I wanted to move abroad.

00:35I wanted to move to Canada.

00:36So for that, I needed a job that would allow me to travel as much as possible.

00:42So everywhere does food.

00:44So if you learn to cook, it's very easy to travel.

00:46And also restaurants will take you for three or four months,

00:50just like a short season, and it won't be an issue.

00:54So it's a great job for people who want to travel.

00:56So did you go to Canada?

00:57I did, yeah.

00:58Four years, yeah.

00:59Oh, wow.

00:59So what brought you back?

01:02My visa expired.

01:03So I had to come back.

01:04I would love to go back one day and I probably will.

01:06So the Dockyard Social is a street food venue

01:11that also has a bar and does events and weddings and things.

01:16It's a startup that likes to help other startups.

01:19All the food in here is independently owned.

01:23And it's independent traders doing small businesses starting up.

01:27So it's a great place for people who would have no chance of

01:32building a business and being successful outside of here, really.

01:35A food truck costs 20 grand and I haven't got 20 grand,

01:38but I can pay my rent here at the Dockyard, no problem.

01:42People who want to do things their own way

01:44and don't want to bother with investors and wouldn't be able to get investors

01:48because it's not an easy time to have a food business right now.

01:50It's very scary.

01:52Food is an expression of joy and an expression of love to people that you don't know.

01:57Everyone has to eat, but you don't have to eat well.

01:59You make the choice to eat well if you're going to do that day.

02:06So it's a good line of the practical, the logical,

02:10the organization, but also the creative in that,

02:14yes, you can have something simple, something uninteresting,

02:19but you can choose to eat really well that day

02:21and that's a decision that will have impacts on your whole day and maybe the next day as well.

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