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What’s the No. 1 reason to eat at The Willistead Restaurant? It’s the choice of late night talk show legend David Letterman.

The former talk show host and comedian caused a bit of a stir Friday night when he popped into The Willistead in Walkerville for dinner.

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“I’m not much of a celebrity guy, but that’s probably the only guy that could get me going,” said Willistead owner Mark Boscariol after meeting Letterman.

Boscariol raced down to the restaurant after his partner called to say he thought Letterman was there, but he wasn’t sure.

“Everybody in the restaurant insisted it wasn’t him,” said Boscariol. “Nobody bothered him, nobody recognized him.

“With the beard it’s hard to recognize him, just a beard and a T-shirt. Then he put the jacket on and the sunglasses, and it’s like oh ya, it’s obvious that it’s him.”

Boscariol said a band was playing and it was too loud to talk, so he waited until the music stopped to approach him.