Snoop Dogg is planning to open up a restaurant in Glasgow - with Gordon Ramsay. The 50-year-old rapper first met the fiery Scot on his The F Word show in America five years ago.
Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus J, released his first cook book From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from That Boss Dogg’s Kitchen in 2018 and has turned to Gordon for cooking hacks. Gordon, 55 from Johnstone, has 35 restaurants around the world including five in Las Vegas and the Bread Street Kitchen & Bar in Edinburgh which he opened last year.
He closed his Glasgow eatiere, the Amaryllis in 2004 after only three years because of the death of head chef David Dempsey. Snoop, a big Celtic fan, said: “I have been speaking with my boy Gordon for a while about opening a restaurant together - but the pandemic slowed things right down.
“Gordon has got a few places in Vegas and Vegas is Snoop’s city - so I kind of figured that we would open a place there - but I know Gordon is from Scotland and people know my love for Scotland and for Glasgow as a city so - why not there.” He’s hoping the restaurant will offer his own personal favourites like fried chicken as well as traditional Scots dishes like haggis.
And as well as his personal favourites like fried chicken he’s also thinking of offering haggis at his Scots eaterie. Snoop said: “It would be food everybody could enjoy - food for the family.
“Burgers, mac n cheese, fried chicken - and maybe one or two local dishes like haggis just to keep things authentic.” While Snoop is best known for rap classics like Gin and Juice and Drop It Like It’s Hot and can currently be seen in Netflix vampire movie Day Shift, he’s also a self-confessed foodie who has been cooking for his kids and grandkids for years.
Snoop has teamed up with American celebrity chef Martha Stewart for three series of Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party which saw them cooking for celebrities. Snoop’s desire to become a restauranteur was fired up last month when his 81-year-old pal Martha opened her first restaurant, The Bedford at the Paris Las Vegas.
Snoop said: “I’m just a foodie. I don’t look like it, but I am. I love different styles of food, different cultures and different tastes.
“So I do a lot of studying, which I know people don’t believe, but that’s how I was able to put a cookbook together. Now I want to go further and open a restaurant and where better than to start than Scotland?”
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