Café D'Jaconelli
Scots-Italian ice cream café with red leather booths, a jukebox and a 1950s interior.
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This guide to Café D'Jaconelli on Maryhill Road in Glasgow follows the money through a century of a Scots-Italian ice cream café. It starts in the rationed years of the Second World War, when sugar was scarce and neighbours sheltered in these booths, and takes in Mario Jaconelli, the farmers he knew, and the young tiler who later took over the counter. Best heard from one of the red crescent booths, with the menu prices in view.
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