RETRO DUNDEE

After a wee flurry sampling some of the gastronomic delights from around the eastern side of the globe - it's time to get bac...

The top 2 ads are for Don Quixote, the Spanish restaurant in Blackness Road. First is dated 1981 and 2nd is from 1984. The reason...

Here's 5 local ads offering a variety of tasty grub from the East that I'm sure many of you will be familiar with. Star...

I suppose students could have gone straight from their days stint at Kingsway Tech and popped down to the Pizza Gallery in Peter Street pe...

Here is a photo of the Nicoll & Smibert shop in the Nethergate, taken sometime in the late 60's. Big thanks to Peter.

Another bakers in centre of town offering snack/restaurant facilities was Nicoll & Smibert who were in the Nethergate. The top ad i...

Back to 204 Perth Road where we were a few days ago when it was the Underworld Cafe, only this time, a decade later, it has become the Unive...

This ad from 1988 is for French restaurant, The Boulevard, who were based at 10-12 Crichton Street. I don't know anything about this pla...

Whether you just fancied a cup of tea & a scone or you needed a full meal, The Rusty Kettle at 304 Perth Road would serve it up for you....

The Underworld Cafe, on the go in the 60's, was to be found at 204 Perth Road, sharing the building with the Shakespeare Restaurant. ...

An ordinary, everyday scene of folk going about their business along Reform Street on 3rd December 1983. The most prominent shop sign o...

The original Restaurant Wilson in Union Street was destroyed by a fire in 1956 - and so this picture here is how it looked after it ...

2 restaurant ads from the mid 80's featuring the Mediterranean flavours of Italy and Spain. Easy to figure out which...

A reminder of some of the eating places on the go in 1981 can be found in an overview presented in Cranked Up, with Egon Boney taking us on...

The not very imaginatively named, "Restaurant", was on the corner of Reform Street and Bank Street. You may remember it was next ...

The Unicorn in Reform Street was part of the DPM (Dundee Pasteurised Milk) Company who had quite a few dairy's scattered around town in...

The Howff Restaurant was part of the Breadalbane Arms in Constitution Road. The Howff at #33 and the Bread/Bothy at #35. I'm sure there...

I'm gonna have a food theme running over the next few days featuring local cuisine and restaurants galore - and so where better to ...

This 1985 ad for the Hosikai in St Andrews St, claims to be the first traditional Cantonese restaurant in Dundee. Not knowing the differen...

This ad for the Shish Mahal Tandoori Restaurant in Commercial Street is from 1979. Not sure whether the sales pitch in it is supposed to...