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