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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 19, 2014 2:55:30 GMT
If you have any cool places that serve 'Tull' food or drinks bring 'em here. Welcome to Tull Restaurant This place has an amazing story:The old workshop fronting Bath Street became a restaurant around 1987. Smorgy’s and Just Desserts were there for a few years before Geoff and Lois SImpson opened Tull in 1993. Named after the rock band Jethro Tull, it was particularly known for its desserts, and had almost a cult following.
Diners were awarded a certificate (‘The Blodwyn’) if they were able to finish the Chocolate Massacre, and other dishes paid homage to the band with names such as 'Aqualung' (a seafood salad) and 'Bungle in the Jungle' (a green salad).
The Simpsons were folk musicians and the New Edinburgh Folk Club (established c.1977) met at the restaurant on Sunday nights from 1999 onwards. Tull closed following Geoff’s death in 2006, and since 2007 the space has been a Japanese restaurant, Yuki Izakaya.
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 20, 2014 1:51:03 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 20, 2014 20:58:41 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 22, 2014 2:21:47 GMT
Let's check the menu for some Tull Food Geoff and Lois Simpson...owners
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 22, 2014 2:30:41 GMT
Love the menu..Got nothing to match it but a story, maybe verifiable by our new Argentinian friend, if he is of a certain age...My Hamburg roommate, ( well, one of the many) was a film maker from Buenos Aires who swore that he used to be a regular at a bar, by the beach, that only played Tull...all Tull, all day, everyday when the place was open, the music was Tull...he said it was around between 1977-1980....any nibbles on this fine bit of history ? I know that there are many, many beaches and many, many bars in the huge metropolis that is Buenos Aires,,,but maybe, someone, somewhere has heard of this place ?
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 22, 2014 9:11:25 GMT
I love all that too. You know you can say what you like about those "American chapps/essess" but they have the confidence to follow their dreams whereas we'd be too embarrassed to open a Tull themed establishment.
Thing is though I can see my Tull B&B (Blackpool?) turning into some weird,infrequently visited except by the very odd Tull fan, 70's furnished, flock- wallpaperd type of place. Not a good look.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 22, 2014 12:52:53 GMT
There's a backpackers hotel in Kyleakin, Skye by the name Saucy Mary's. i60.images obliterated by tinypic/2q36mh3.jpg[/IMG] I was hoping it was influenced by Cross-Eyed... "Saucy Mary's takes its name from the impudent Norse Princess Mary, who married Findanus Mackinnon, Lord of the Isles, around 900 AD. She allegedly had a chain laid between the mainland and the Isle of Skye to enable the levying of a toll for passing ships."
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 24, 2014 16:37:32 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 24, 2014 18:09:22 GMT
Me !
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 24, 2014 19:19:22 GMT
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 25, 2014 15:21:19 GMT
Meanwhile on Thames Street Tull's Restaurant
Next door to Boots was Tull's Restaurant, at 18, Thames Street. This postcard view dates from the very early 1900s and is postmarked June 5th 1911. On the reverse the writer, John, reports that he had lunch here 25 years ago. That makes it around 1886! It is possible that this photograph and this card was printed some years before, perhaps around 1903, and sold by Tull's to their customers. www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/thenandnow/thames_street.html
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 25, 2014 15:21:59 GMT
Meanwhile on Thames Street Tull's Restaurant
Next door to Boots was Tull's Restaurant, at 18, Thames Street. This postcard view dates from the very early 1900s and is postmarked June 5th 1911. On the reverse the writer, John, reports that he had lunch here 25 years ago. That makes it around 1886! It is possible that this photograph and this card was printed some years before, perhaps around 1903, and sold by Tull's to their customers. www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/thenandnow/thames_street.html Great Find!! I used to walk down that very street every week. I lived in the quaint village of Slough outside Windsor and I would "do lunch" and shop there every Saturday. My lunch was in the beef patty "restaurant" further down the road with a Scottish name. True story - the Scottish named restaurant wasn't allowed to put it's usual garish sign above the door as it's directly opposite the castle.
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 25, 2014 15:48:55 GMT
I used to walk down that very street every week. I lived in the quaint village of Slough outside Windsor and I would "do lunch" and shop there every Saturday.
My lunch was in the beef patty "restaurant" further down the road with a Scottish name.
True story - the Scottish named restaurant wasn't allowed to put it's usual garish sign above the door as it's directly opposite the castle. Awesome! Now we must try to find this Scottish Restaurant. Is it still there?
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 25, 2014 16:18:46 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 25, 2014 16:31:17 GMT
Tully's is a chain...we have one in Berkeley and I sometimes meet people there knowing they won't forget the name of the coffee shop.
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Post by JTull 007 on Mar 25, 2014 16:48:27 GMT
Wow! That coffee would taste so good in a cup like this...
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 25, 2014 16:52:41 GMT
Tully's is a chain...we have one in Berkeley and I sometimes meet people there knowing they won't forget the name of the coffee shop. Better/equal of Starbuck's ? Our local tea shop in Launceston. Very British with cups and saucers and the tea arrives on the table in a tea pot on a doily.
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Post by steelmonkey on Mar 25, 2014 18:11:59 GMT
Starbucks imitation...also started in Seattle
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