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Still Game’s Sanjeev Kohli’s Best of Glasgow
National World - LocalTV
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12/02/2025
We visit the Drake in Woodlands to meet the man who plays Navid on Still Game to find out his favourite spots across the city.
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00:00
Sanjeev, this is your best of Glasgow.
00:02
So, first question, your favourite restaurant?
00:04
Murphy's Pakora Bar, because it belongs to my cousin.
00:07
But also, I'm going to say Crab Shack.
00:09
Okay, why Crab Shack?
00:11
Crab Shack, I've never been in there once.
00:13
There's always a brilliant atmosphere,
00:15
service is fantastic, food is on point.
00:18
It's expensive, but not easily expensive.
00:21
Never had a bad experience there.
00:23
And what's your preference, Finiston or Hillhead?
00:27
I think I like that Finiston is so cheap by jowl.
00:31
You're basically eating off a plank of wood.
00:33
There's a charm there.
00:34
I love the way they made that work.
00:37
So, I think Finiston, Crab Shack edges it.
00:39
But they're both really good.
00:40
Okay, favourite pub?
00:42
Favourite pub?
00:43
At the moment, it's The Rock in Highland,
00:46
because they're always really friendly.
00:49
It's the closest thing I've got to a regular.
00:52
I mean, everyone doesn't know my name,
00:54
although they probably know me as Naveed.
00:57
So, it's not quite like cheers in that way.
00:58
But, no, it's unpretentious.
01:01
I wish it would serve food.
01:03
So, there's a shout out to The Rock.
01:04
Get your kitchen back on the go.
01:05
But it's, like, you can go and watch the football there,
01:08
the rugby, whatever.
01:09
It's always really relaxed.
01:11
A good crowd.
01:12
And it's funny, because I'll go in there,
01:13
I'll meet people, friends of mine,
01:15
but also, like, my children's generation,
01:17
they're drinking there now.
01:18
So, it's just a nice family mix, I would say.
01:21
Cool.
01:22
Favourite coffee spot?
01:24
I am a coffee demon.
01:26
So, multiple favourite coffee spots.
01:29
I'm struggling to think of what the best one would be, actually.
01:34
I really like Cuckoo, which is just,
01:37
it's around the corner from the house.
01:39
But it's really, really good.
01:41
So, it's like, and food's really good as well, actually.
01:45
Yeah, Cuckoo.
01:46
Favourite venue?
01:48
Favourite venue in Glasgow?
01:50
The Hydro was very, very good to us.
01:52
And, you know, I played it nearly 50 times.
01:55
So, I would probably have to include the Hydro.
01:58
But the Barrellands is just, it's amazing.
02:02
I think the last gig I went to see in the Barrellands
02:03
might have been the Jesus and Mary Chain.
02:06
And it was just the perfect venue for them.
02:09
Perfect venue for everyone.
02:10
You always know if you go and see a band at the Barrellands,
02:13
you'll get an extra, kind of, 10% join,
02:17
from the band and from the audience.
02:20
Favourite building?
02:21
Favourite building?
02:22
I've got a very soft spot for the Kelvin Grove Art Gallery.
02:26
I love the scale of it.
02:27
It's absolutely massive.
02:28
I love it when you come from Partick
02:30
and you come round the bend, it's like that.
02:32
Like, they're huge.
02:34
And I have this weird fantasy whereby
02:37
if aliens were ever to visit Earth,
02:40
I always imagine that the Kelvin Grove Art Gallery
02:42
is like the Transformers.
02:43
Like, it would stand up and the turrets would come arms
02:46
and it'll swipe the aliens away.
02:48
But I know that's mental.
02:50
And that'll never happen.
02:53
But I love the scale of it.
02:54
It's very Glasgow to me.
02:56
It's one of the things I think that's iconic about Glasgow.
02:59
No, I agree.
03:01
Favourite band, Glasgow band?
03:03
Favourite Glasgow band?
03:05
Probably the Blue Nile.
03:08
I think the Blue Nile.
03:11
I love that they only made three albums
03:14
and they're perfection.
03:18
There are plenty of great Glasgow bands.
03:21
Simple Minds I love, the Fratellis I love,
03:24
Travis I love.
03:27
And what's weird with being in Still Game
03:29
is I meet these people and they love Still Game.
03:32
Jim Carrey's a massive Still Game fan, which is fantastic.
03:36
And I know the Travis boys, they're absolute sweethearts.
03:38
I really like Snow Patrol as well,
03:40
who I know the Glasgows claimed because they lived here.
03:43
Franz Ferdinand are fantastic as well,
03:44
but I think the Blue Nile led you.
03:47
Favourite outdoor space?
03:49
Favourite outdoor space in Glasgow, that's a good question.
03:53
My dog walk, listen to me, I'm middle class, say dog.
03:57
My dog walk is the Botanic Gardens.
03:59
I've always had a soft spot for the Botanics
04:01
because when my family first came to Glasgow
04:04
we lived in Hillhead in flats before we moved to Bishop Briggs.
04:08
So I've got vague memories of being a kid
04:11
and going to the Kibble Palace
04:13
and it being really, really hot.
04:15
Not the Kibble Palace, no it is the Kibble Palace.
04:17
And it being really, really hot
04:19
and seeing these eels in the water and stuff.
04:21
So Botanic Gardens has always had a special place in my heart.
04:25
And your Glasgow hero?
04:27
My Glasgow hero, I've got three
04:30
and I'll put them in three, two, one.
04:33
Limmy, Amanda Nucci, Billy Connolly.
04:35
I think Glasgow is a city of storytellers,
04:39
of very naturally funny people.
04:41
I think they're all very funny in their own way
04:44
but Billy Connolly's the governor.
04:47
That thing that everyone knows
04:50
and if you're from Glasgow you know it word for word
04:53
an audience of Billy Connolly where he talks to,
04:55
he does a set in front of really famous people.
04:57
Have a custard cream, father, that's what they're there for.
05:00
Best hour of comedy I think that's ever been made.
05:03
So Billy Connolly's the governor
05:05
but Amanda Nucci and Limmy are close behind.
05:08
Fantastic, and then finally
05:10
what does Glasgow mean to you?
05:13
If I were to sum up Glasgow in an image
05:16
it's your man, your Duke of Wellington
05:18
with the cone on his head, right?
05:20
I love that that's become so iconic for Glasgow
05:23
because that sums up Glasgow.
05:25
It's like, who do you think you are, Billy Big Bollocks?
05:27
That's kind of Glasgow.
05:29
I ken your dad, I know who you are.
05:31
You might be successful but be polite, be gracious.
05:34
Don't get ideas above your station.
05:36
It can be sometimes a wee bit debilitating
05:38
but for the most part quite grounding.
05:40
So if a duke is going to wander into George Square
05:42
he's going to get a traffic cone on his head
05:44
because that's what we do here.
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