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Edinburgh's Beautiful Cafe Royale
Next time you are in Edinburgh give yourself a treat and visit the Cafe Royale, just off its main street, Princes Street. It is one of the classiest but friendliest public bars in the world, with great food and atmosphere and lots of antique mirrors and dark polished wood similar to that of Restaurante Julienne in Paris. But it also has these wonderful giant, tile mosaics, featuring geniuses such as William Caxton, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Peel and Michael Faraday amongst others. The bar has nice memories for me, because way back in the Palaeolithic era, after we had discovered our university degree grades, our geology lecturers traditionally took the newly qualified graduates to the Cafe Royale to buy them a pint or two of beer, before we made our way out into the world of employment.
The Cafe Royale was established in 1863. The building was originally commissioned by John Ambrose in 1817 as a showroom for the new-fangled gas and sanitary fittings. The unique current design was done by a local architect Robert Paterson, way back in 1862.
Edinburgh's Beautiful Cafe Royale
Next time you are in Edinburgh give yourself a treat and visit the Cafe Royale, just off its main street, Princes Street. It is one of the classiest but friendliest public bars in the world, with great food and atmosphere and lots of antique mirrors and dark polished wood similar to that of Restaurante Julienne in Paris. But it also has these wonderful giant, tile mosaics, featuring geniuses such as William Caxton, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Peel and Michael Faraday amongst others. The bar has nice memories for me, because way back in the Palaeolithic era, after we had discovered our university degree grades, our geology lecturers traditionally took the newly qualified graduates to the Cafe Royale to buy them a pint or two of beer, before we made our way out into the world of employment.
The Cafe Royale was established in 1863. The building was originally commissioned by John Ambrose in 1817 as a showroom for the new-fangled gas and sanitary fittings. The unique current design was done by a local architect Robert Paterson, way back in 1862.