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Can anyone tell me the name of the bars in park circus circa 1979. I seem to remember a very trendy one but cant think of its name.

Lautrecs?

La Bonne Auberge at The Beacons Hotel?

was the bonne auberge a bar as well as a restaurant?

thinktank24 wrote:was the bonne auberge a bar as well as a restaurant?

It might have had its own name but everyone (who was anyone) called it "The Bonne Auberge."

Dexter St. Clair wrote:

thinktank24 wrote:was the bonne auberge a bar as well as a restaurant?

It might have had its own name but everyone (who was anyone) called it "The Bonne Auberge."

It might have had its own name but everyone (who was anyone) avoided it like the plague.

thinktank24 wrote:Can anyone tell me the name of the bars in park circus circa 1979. I seem to remember a very trendy one but cant think of its name.

Wasn't it Gatsby's ??

The bar was called Harveys. It was a cocktail bar in the hotel above the Bon Auberge in Park Circus.

The bar was called Harveys. It was a cocktail bar in the hotel above the Bon Auberge in Park Circus.

It also sold Stella Artois on Draft.

nine years to get the answer.thank you rod.

The bonne auberge a bar just as a café?

So as the cellar boy in the Beacons hotel in 1979 (owned by Maurice V. Taylor) I can tell you that there were 4 hotel bars in the venue, the Terrace Bar on the LHS as you walk into the Beacons, The Gun Room at the back next to the toilets, downstairs was La Bonne Auberge Wine Bar & Restaurant & Harvey's Studio 8 Cocktail Bar & Diner. Gatsby's was just along the road - owned by Brian Kirk

Lautrec's didn't open until 1982

That Beacon would be an ideal meet for HG devotees (a handful of us)

Naw scrap that, better can that idea, they wouldn’t let me a boy from the Gorbals in, too risky!