Famous Faces who have entered Glasgow’s Coia’s Cafe

We speak to Carlo Coia on the famous faces who have walked through his family’s Italian East End restaurant.

Transcript

00:00A lot of Ford Cairning. A lot of my father and Ford, they grew up on the same street.

00:06So, a lot of funny stories about when they were kids as well, you know, and how they used to,

00:13because when they were all younger, you know, they all went to school, you know,

00:18around the corner and stuff like that, in very local parts.

00:22So, they all, you know, the stories, they were all rascals when they were younger, weren't they?

00:27So, hearing all those kinds of stories about how they used to run into the shop

00:30and how they used to get served and all these kinds of things, it's great fun.

00:33But, you know, I think when you, we've always welcomed, had a lot of celebrities coming in, you know,

00:40but I think as well you'll see there's a lot of famous faces that come from this end of the city as well.

00:45So, again, they come in because they've got a connection with the place,

00:48they've got, you know, they feel as though they've got a wee attachment to their childhood

00:53or that brings them back down to where they came from, you know.