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Gaby's Deli was a family Jewish restaurant in London's Charing Cross Road. It was named after the founder, Gaby Elyahou, who ran it with his family. It served fresh salads and homely hot meals such as goulash. It was especially noted for the quality of its salt beef and falafel.
The square lies within an area bound by Lisle Street, to the north; Charing Cross Road, to the east; Orange Street, to the south; and Whitcomb Street, to the west.The park at the centre of the square is bound by Cranbourn Street, to the north; Leicester Street, to the east; Irving Street, to the south; and a section of road designated simply as Leicester Square, to the west.
J. Lyons & Co. was a British restaurant chain store, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate founded in 1884 by Joseph Lyons and his brothers in law, Isidore and Montague Gluckstein. Lyons' first teashop opened in Piccadilly , London in 1894, and from 1909 they developed into a chain of teashops , with the firm becoming a staple of the High ...
The Swiss Centre, with its distinctive clock, was a popular tourist attraction on the edge of Coventry Street, London, at its junction with Leicester Square.The 14 storey building [1] was both a showcase for Switzerland and its products,a trade and commercial centre that featured a Swiss bank, tourist office, a chocolate and souvenir shop, a Swissair ticket office, a cafe and several Swiss ...
The area was known through exaggerated reports and tales of slum housing and (the then-legal) opium dens, rather than the Chinese restaurants and supermarkets of the current Chinatown. However, much of the area was damaged by aerial bombing during the Blitz in the Second World War, although a number of elderly Chinese still choose to live in ...
There were elegant restaurants with modest prices, a library, reading and writing rooms, special reception rooms for French, German, American and "Colonial" customers, a First Aid Room, and a Silence Room, with soft lights, deep chairs, and double-glazing, all intended to keep customers in the store as long as possible.
The Peepul Centre is an arts centre in Belgrave, Leicester.Designed by Andrzej Blonski Architects, the £15 million building was opened in 2005 and houses an auditorium, bar and restaurant, gym and spa, a dance studio, a day nursery, a cyber café and is also used for conferences, weddings and celebrations and corporate events as well as for health services including a mental health café.
Facade of the Turkey Cafe. The Turkey Cafe is a building with a flamboyant Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) facade in Granby Street, Leicester, England.It was built in 1900 and is now a Grade II listed building, once again used as a café. [1]