The Grosvenor Café

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seeing as i was talking about in another thread and then it kinda got lost, i thought i would start a new thread so that we can all (in my short sighted world) reminisce about the grosvenor café....

(tracer hand: who is your best friend, the former GC waitress? my best friend was a waitress there too. meeting them on a social level kinda ruined the mystique for me...)

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

When did it close?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

well, it moved from the downstairs (now vodka wodka) about 2 and half years ago (jeez!), then it turned into mimmo's bistro with little fanfare a month or 2 ago. but it's better it's not there at all than the rubbishy fake one upstairs...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

both Cla1re T1mm1ns and Ruth L3ask worked there at one point or another

RObbie do you remember the days when it was just a grotty cafe? i had just moved to town, and i saw they had hamburgers for SIXTY PENCE. i thought to myself "this is the place." then i tasted the "hamburger"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Glad to see the back of it. It was unhygenic and packed with racists.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I was that unhygenic racist........................... joking

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It did have errrrrrrrrrrrrrr nice waitresses, periodically

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracer knows Claire?! What a wee world.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I think i knew (or rather was served by) Ruth. Slightly grumpy, but essentially cool, northern english lass? i dare say she ranked quite highly in GC waitress leagues...Alanna Boo-urns is my official GC link. Tall scottish girl. i would say with dark hair but that seems obvious...

Och, the grosvenor was a nice grotty café. and quite diverse socially. you'd see all the kelvinsaaa-iide ladies lunching and also grotty students like me (my order: hamburger, soup of the day (!) and irn bru). there's no cheap café in the west end where you can just hang about, looking cool, smoking cigarettes. oh the gentrification...

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N. - what racists packed it out? i can't remember seeing or hearing very much racist talk there...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

haha that is Ruth to a T, Robbie!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Tracer-T1mm1ns connection was established the other night. It was exciting, even though I have still not actually met Claire, for some reason.

No racism, Robbie. It was a bluff.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

ahhhh...

it's a very bluff bluff... (an homage to the worst/best bit in the english patient "It's a very plum....plum...")

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the booths from the Grosvenor was rescued from a dumpster and installed in Tracey Anne Obscura's kitchen, wasn't it? (On a related note, how odd to see a pic of the CareBear alongside Belmondo and Serge and Pete and Dud on the Faded Glamour website as some signifier of indiegirlcool.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I must have a look at that!

Tracey Anne Obscura

Sexist Melody Maker pig.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the booths when they gutted the place all stuffed into the back of van. horrible. i wanted to get one and put it in my flat and then just sit there and get some dark haired girl to bring me lentil soup and cans of coke all day...

maybe even a ben lawyers...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The owner = prime twat. He told me off for eating a Mars Bar when I wasn't even eating a Mars Bar. He was really angry.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

aye...the owner....

i liked him only cause of the GC closing party where he kept forcing drinks on me.

why would someone be told off for eating a mars bar?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

'Traceyanne'.

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 23 April 2004 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

That's just silly.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 23 April 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Cla1re mentioned she knew you, "Jerry."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 April 2004 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I imagine you saying "Jerry" with enormous disdain.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 April 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, send her my love, "Traceranne".

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 23 April 2004 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooooo you!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

the thing about the grosvener was everything they served you was hot.....a toasted mortons roll around your hamburger and a hot piece of caramel shortcake on a hot plate with ice cream.....

and who can forget the half pizza pie portion with a fried egg?

my pal jude used to work there too.

― saza bob, Friday, 23 April 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

ben lawyers anyone?

― saza bob, Friday, 23 April 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

italian bridie? robbie lumsden, i agree with you, better to be gone than that abolition up the stairs.

― saza bob, Friday, 23 April 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The pizza with a fried egg was unexpectedly nice. especially if one cashed in one's connections and got them to put pepperoni and onions on it...

It had an unusual ability to provoke three hour+ chats with a rotating group of people, which just don't happen anywhere else near me...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I never knew it when it was donwstairs so I can't comment but the wee place up the stairs was ok, had a few nighs out there last year and was sorry when it turned into Mimos or whatever it's called now...

― smee (smee), Friday, 23 April 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

They sold Mars Bars but you weren't allowed to eat them at the tables. I don't know why. Perhaps because it would look like you needed filling up after their measly all-day breakfast.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 23 April 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I found the all day breakfast quite a perfect size for my (then) shrunken student stomach.

That must have been quite a while ago, PJ. I remember they used to sell drinks and stuff where you paid, but that was ages ago...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That's it, where you paid. I think they called it 'the till' back in the day. This was about 1988. I still haven't recovered, as you can see.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

It was no doubt a traumatic experience.

my favourite glasgow café is Tomasso's café on Crow Road. It's mega, just a little too out the way...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

It was very humilliating, he bawled me out in front of everybody, including the legendary waitresses.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i bet you never got off with any of them after that humiliation.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I had breakfast there once. It was OK, if not very filling. I didn't get shouted at by any managers, but that bloody Stu@rt Murdoch was stalking me or something, cos he was in there too.

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Now I remember, I was in there with Cabbage & Vicky, the famous NYC wedding couple, & maybe Barry Lasagne too.

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

he was in there a bit i remember. west end whore.*

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Last time I was in Glasgow (1999), I insisted that my poor wife take a pic of me in front of the Grosvenor Cafe. It was where B&S formed, according to the legend. She didn't want to actually go in and order anything, though, having spent far too much time there as a uni student.

― mike a, Friday, 23 April 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It was much more expensive than the union.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

italian bridie?

yes i'll have one...

the story is that they used to have a blackboard with "specials" and a description for each thing. One day i was in there and the special was Calzone Pizza the description being "Calzone Pizza: An Italian Bridie" i shit you not.

by the way Saza Bob (aka one half of the beaumonsters on the site that dare not speak its name) meet Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ on the site that dare not speak its name).

Connections!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 April 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ben Lawyers

i think you mean Brown Derby....

...on a hot plate.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 April 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha.

you have to always call it a 'half pizza pie portion', as this is the correct name.

to this day i dunno what a brown derby is.

― saza bob, Friday, 23 April 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

They sold Benders in buns, knickerbocker glories in ice-cream parlour glasses and the exquisitely named brown derby - a doughnut and ice cream ensemble.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the wimpy btw

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(as wallace stevens hq) saza bob it's a pleasure 2 meet U again. I just had a fun load of your comments on my *pl**ds. No one seems 2 have d*wnl**d*d my last 2 things at all.... (Jed and Saza U shd they're both mega...)

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

...and jed: yeah the straight out of the dishwasher hotness of all the cutlery was legendary...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

hi wallace stevens hq! i will get straight on the case.......ta

ooh a bender in a bun, that's right up my alley.

― saza bob, Friday, 23 April 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

yes thanks wallace stevens hq you have a lot of fun picks!

― saza bob, Friday, 23 April 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

happy birthday saza bob x

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

happy birthday beaumonstersozabob.

I think a d*sc*ss post (or perhaps a birthday themed upload) is required...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks boys!

― saza bob, Friday, 23 April 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

ok wallace, check out ma latest too, you'll like!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

deal!

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Saturday, 24 April 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

what?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 April 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

just look away cozen. you didn't see anything here. NOTHING HAPPENED HERE.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 26 April 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

It was OK. I got a free cup of tea and a yum-yum once, so I can't complain too much.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 29 April 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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