Local greasy spoon watch… have you got a local greasy spoon

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NDWDave Feb 2023 5:20pm, 19 Feb 2023 17,939 posts	0 NDWDave Following Ocelot Spleens’s suggestion
Oscar the Grouch Feb 2023 5:30pm, 19 Feb 2023 5,744 posts	0 Oscar the Grouch Ours is called Biddy's. I'll do the tourist thing soon. It's a proper throwback.
Night-owl Feb 2023 5:32pm, 19 Feb 2023 41,491 posts	0 Night-owl Oh good. There's a few round here
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2023 5:32pm, 19 Feb 2023 36,342 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens Excellent. Mine will be added soon....
Raemond Feb 2023 5:59pm, 19 Feb 2023 10,140 posts	0 Raemond There used to be the most wonderful place in Cardiff Bay called 'Gorge with George'. It was nextdoor to the brothel, iirc. A Friday lunchtime gorge was a staple of the information commissioner's regional office when that was based there. I hope it's still in business.
Raemond Feb 2023 6:05pm, 19 Feb 2023 10,141 posts	0 Raemond (seems it's closed. I have sadness)
ThorntonRunner Feb 2023 8:21pm, 19 Feb 2023 6,571 posts	0 ThorntonRunner The most memorable for me is due to context rather than the place itself. Would be mid-90s (can't be bothered to check) and I'd somehow got tickets for England Scotland grand slam decider at Twickenham. John from church was also going and offered to give us a lift there and back. John was a CBE, vice-chancellor of a university and would sometimes have despatch riders turn up with government papers for him to give an opinion on. However on a tip off from his chauffeur he has got to know that in the council depot next to the Stoop was the cafe used by the bin and maintenance vehicle staff, and that's where we went for lunch. An excellent fry up but just made all the more memorable by the incongruity of it being John who took us there
Derby Tup Feb 2023 8:48pm, 19 Feb 2023 58,454 posts	0 Derby Tup Ambergate Cafe - 1990’s bacon and mushroom sandwich plus coffee my standard order. The one by the garage; not the cyclists’ cafe on the corner. Think it’s very long gone
Oscar the Grouch Feb 2023 8:02am, 20 Feb 2023 5,746 posts	0 Oscar the Grouch Lovely story, TR
cackleberry Feb 2023 10:21am, 20 Feb 2023 2,906 posts	0 cackleberry DT - both those cafe's have gone. Used to go to the cyclists regularly with my dad as a kid. Not sure any of our local breakfast spots, although good, fall into the 'greasy spoon' category.