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Paperino’s Celebrates 14 Years as a Firm Favourite With Glaswegians
This week saw Paperino’s, the Sauchiehall Street restaurant which revolutionised Glasgow’s approach to Italian food, notch up 14 years as one of Glasgow’s most popular restaurants.
When brothers Stefano and Sandro Giovanazzi opened the original Paperino’s in 1991, the combination of classic food in a relaxed environment was new to Glasgow and the now-traditional look of whitewashed walls and terracotta floor redefined the way the city’s restaurants were designed.
Food fads might have come and gone since then, but the Glaswegian appetite for fresh Italian cuisine has been constant. Paperino’s is renowned for its traditional Italian cuisine, offering an extensive range of pasta, pizza and meat and fish dishes. Smaller wonder that it quickly established its place as a firm favourite with the Glasgow Italian community.
The brothers attribute much of the restaurant’s success to the contribution made by its staff over the years.
Stefano Giovanazzi, said, ‘Many of our key members of staff have remained with us throughout these last 14 years - and I have no doubt that it is the constancy of a quality service, as well as an established and renowned menu, that has played a vital part of the success of the restaurant.’
So successful has Paperino’s been that its owners understandably have no plans to tinker with its recipe for success.
Said Stefano, ‘I have a great love of all food and wine, but I believe we should stick to doing what we know best, and that is preparing traditional Italian food.’
Indeed, the original Paperino’s has proven so popular that a sister restaurant, Paperino’s West End, opened earlier this year on Byres Road and has already established itself as a firm favourite with diners in Glasgow’s west end.
Date: 23rd November 2005
