Bank 2 Restaurant

**Derek** · 27th February 08, 12:34 AM

We went for a meal last night to a restaurant that was once a very large branch of Lloyds Bank. Its a pasta restaurant now and they have kept all the old features of the place ... so I thought I post a piccy so you can see it. The place was full when we got there but it was getting late when this pic was took. In the background is a huge roaring fire which they do all the cooking on .. shame you cant see it properly on this pic but it makes the place really cosy.

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Derek

**Warlock** · 27th February 08, 12:47 AM

Very nice! My wife and I are just now getting to where we can go have ADLUT evenings, {no kids} with friends or just the two of us. Sounds like you had a blast. You just can't beat an evening out with good friends!

**McClef** · 27th February 08, 06:12 AM

Looks a very posh setting for your kilted spaghetti!

**Dirk Skene** · 27th February 08, 07:09 AM

It looks like it has a lot of charm. I am guessing they make all their own pasta & sauces. What did you have?

**James MacMillan** · 27th February 08, 07:47 AM

Nice shot.

I was wondering if the waiters were dressed as bank tellers, and then I realized that bank tellers don't have a special way to dress.....

**auld argonian** · 27th February 08, 07:59 AM

I've always wanted to buy an old restaurant and turn it into a train station.

There was a movement called "adaptive re-use" here in the States back in the 1970's. One in a while you see something like tour bank/eatery that works well and it's a joy to be able to be there. You're going to have to start giving us GPS coordinates for all of these great places that you've been showing us.

As an aside (okay...slightly off topic maybe), I once worked as a stand in elevator operator in a building in Downtown Chicago. I took a fella down to the basement where he had storage and it was full of fantastic old architectural fragments and things line old gas pumps, church statuary, chandeliers, signs...tons of stuff. As it turns out, the fella ran around collecting this stuff and selling it as decorative elements for restaurants..."instant old", so to speak. Apparently a darn good business from a financial perspective. So it is that every time I go into a restaurant that has elements of that type that I wonder what's real and what was carted in by a designer. I may be cynical about it, but that local place, The Duke of Perth", has me wondering just how much of it's slightly shabby ambience is genuine and how much was put in by a designer.

...and it's great to have you back, Derek. I was sure that you had the gig opening for the Rolling Stones and didn't have any time for the "kilted peasantry" anymore.

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**GMan** · 27th February 08, 08:19 AM

Excellent picture Derek!

**James MacMillan** · 27th February 08, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

I've always wanted to buy an old restaurant and turn it into a train station.

I didn't get caught drinking coffee that time. But big chortle!!!!

**auld argonian** · 27th February 08, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by James MacMillan

I didn't get caught drinking coffee that time. But big chortle!!!!

Well, James, I base that joke on the time that I was waiting for an Amtrak train and standing in the rain because the station had been bought up by a private party and they had turned it into a chi-chi fancy highpriced restaurant. It occurred to me then that there was "something wrong with this picture".

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