Stuart Gillies
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 2 Mar
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Neither did I. I was amazed.
We don't spend a lot of our time looking out, I'll be honest.
We look in.
And that's, I suppose, the essence of what we do.
Every day we look at what we do as a business and if it's
good enough for us then we hope people like it and that and we're really tough on detail micro detail attention to detail team energy atmosphere all the 360 of what going out and hospitality is that that we've learned my wife and i so i wouldn't have known there were 103 restaurants we notice new competition when it comes and we look at it and we and we
that take a view but generally we're always judging ourselves i would say um looking internally uh judging the food the drinks the atmosphere the team the way people engage so that when people arrive it's unique and it's got something that is almost living it's got a heartbeat and that that's what we've always done with our businesses
Right.
And you've got a 30-year career history in hospitality.
You've obviously learned a lot along the way, coming to this point where you now focus so much on detail.
Where did you begin and what were your first lessons?
Well, I wasn't born into hospitality.
The youngest of four kids, Glaswegian parents who weren't foodies at all.
We were brought up on, you know, the famous smash from Mash Get Smash.
Oh yeah.
Brilliant advert from the seventies.
That and boiled mince was a pretty normal meal at our house and a posh dinner with steak at the weekend that my dad would get and I'd get off cuts.
So I didn't have a culinary upbringing at all.
We'd go up to Glasgow quite regularly, see cousins and things and
eat ashit pie and tatty scone and fruit slice that was super excited to me as a young kid from Crawley and Sussex.
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