Caffs & Greasy spoons

Mick_SGC · Post by **Mick_SGC** » Sat 17 May, 2008 8:01 pm

Shabab, opend in 1973, it's quite a nice place and the lunch time buffet price is quite good. (but go to spice quarter in millenium square on an evening for a real belly buster)Sorry this isnt a food forum Moving on, Shabab's is said to be the oldest indian restraunt in leeds, but I'm sure there will have been other places around catering for the Asian community and other lovers of asian food.So 1973 is the one to beat.

Loiner in Cyprus · Post by **Loiner in Cyprus** » Sat 17 May, 2008 8:06 pm

Mick_SGC wrote: Shabab, opend in 1973, it's quite a nice place and the lunch time buffet price is quite good. (but go to spice quarter in millenium square on an evening for a real belly buster)Sorry this isnt a food forum Moving on, Shabab's is said to be the oldest indian restraunt in leeds, but I'm sure there will have been other places around catering for the Asian community and other lovers of asian food.So 1973 is the one to beat. I used to visit the Koh i nor on Boar Lane in the 60s

Mick_SGC · Post by **Mick_SGC** » Sat 17 May, 2008 8:14 pm

I guess thats the one to beat then

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 18 May, 2008 10:21 am

One of my favourite cafes in the 1960s/1970s was the "CITY FISH AND GRILL BAR" - it was in Bishopgate Street just the City Square side of the Scarborough Taps. It was a very spacious airy cafe indeed and served a wide variety of dishes at most reasonable prices.Another of my favourites was SHERWIN'S cafe on the corner of King Charles Croft and Lands Lane, near the Theatre Royal. Old fashioned waitress service, "proper" silver and china, and absolutely beautiful food - three course lunch 2/6d plus 3d for tea or coffee. Among the waitresses (all characters) was a Lincolnshire lady called Kitty, real name "Sylvester", who had worked in most of the good city centre restaurants in her time.

Samson · Post by **Samson** » Thu 22 May, 2008 12:40 am

Hopefully here is the picture I took in 1986 of Kandies Cafe in the upper part of the market.

Samson · Post by **Samson** » Thu 22 May, 2008 12:50 am

I took the picture with a Pentax camera. I think I went in at the doorway at the Vicar Lane top end of the Market on the same side as the Corn Exchange. As you went in I think the stairs were on your right. Sat at the bottom of the stairs was a dark haired lady, who to put it bluntly was down and out, she was talking to herself and was in a dreadful state. I saw her a few times in the market, always sat at the bottom of those stone steps.Anyway does Kandies Cafe ring any bells as I never went in it that day?

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Thu 22 May, 2008 7:14 am

One of the most impressive of todays cafes has to be the one in the City Art Gallery since it re-opened in the hall with the Burmantofts tiles.I was in there yesterday,superb!

Croggy · Post by **Croggy** » Mon 02 Jun, 2008 3:44 pm

Phill_d wrote: cnosni wrote: Is it the one in the layby on the A64 (sorry cant be bothered checking previous messages ) This is the exact address. I don't know if it gets a postman calling tho ;-)A64 Shaw Wood layby, Kiddal, nr Thorner, Leeds. The Red Bus Cafe was on Look North at lunchtime today. Open for business again - although may now need to go to planning for change of use of the old outside rear storage area to the new serving/seating area.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Tue 03 Jun, 2008 12:27 am

The very best of luck to the plucky young lady who has taken over the Red Bus cafe and transformed it into such a spotless place - lets hope the planning setback is behind her now. Incidentally it was a very faded and dull dark green for its first few years in the role (been there a long long time) and was a Nottingham City Transport double decker when it WAS a bus.Very recently another long established cafe has disappeared - this time a red single decker which was on a layby on the right on the A58 between Collingham and Wetherby.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Tue 03 Jun, 2008 12:48 am

Does anyone remember the splendid ROXBY cafe ?? The lettering is still visible on a beam (although partly burnt) above what used to be a passageway from Kirkgate (opposite the Duck and Drake) into the back of Wallace Arnold's coach station in The Calls. The Roxby was upstairs and consisted simply of a very small cafe, maybe 24 seats or so, and a kitchen. Two middle aged waitresses (Rose and Anna) served in black dresses and white pinnies and the food was magnificent. Deservedly the place was always full to capacity.