As Glasgow’s Southside was voted the friendliest area to live, we have been exploring the local businesses to find out why.
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00:00So I'm Danny, I'm one of the owners at Lobo on Portshaws Road.
00:04I think it's just a nice atmosphere around here, I think there's a lot of good places
00:09to eat, there's a lot of good places to drink. Also I think it helps that it's quite multicultural
00:14as well, I think that probably helps quite a lot. There's a lot of different backgrounds,
00:19a lot of different stories, it does kind of lend to people being a bit more open,
00:25a bit more friendly I feel. We're quite a broad demographic to be honest,
00:29we've got a lot of people that come in from Govanhill, we've got a lot of people that come
00:33in from Portshaws, from Shorelands, but then we get a lot of people over from the West End as
00:38well who didn't know about Strathbongo, didn't really know much about the Southside,
00:44and that's a big change over the last couple of years, people from different parts of the
00:49city coming over here, which you didn't really get before, people from the West End would
00:52probably tend to stay in the West End, whereas now that's probably a big change.
00:57Bar wise, especially this wee bit here, there's a great selection of bars, Ali Arms is probably
01:04their most famous one, but Heritage is brilliant, the Titwood, Rum Shack's really good,
01:10and there's places opening up all the time, the Torresdale Tavern over the road's just opened,
01:16and then there's a good cafe scene, Sonny Acre's good,
01:20Guston Welsh is nice over the road, Ranji's Kitchen's amazing, so yeah it's definitely
01:28on the way up, there's loads of options. In Govanhill, Big Counter's is one of my favourites,
01:35and Errol's as well, are exceptional, I think Errol's, I've always said best pizza in Glasgow,
01:42Big Counter's doing a lot of interesting stuff, a lot of stuff that you would probably
01:45wouldn't see elsewhere, Barvini's got a good atmosphere, Lunar round the corner, excellent
01:51cocktails, and then up in Shawlins, Philly's is always a bit of a staple, yeah they're my usual go-to's.