Tennents Bar
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 1:41 pm
(Posted in another part of the forum, should probably be in here)
Really sad news that Tennents bar on the corner, halfway down Byres Road is to be ' extensively refurbished' by Mitchells & Butlers Brewery in the New Year.
It's to be shut on the 1st Jan for 2 months and gutted. Apparently the Basement will be no more, it being made into a large kitchen. The main room will be knocked into the 'Wee T' and the place filled with tables as the Brewery change the emphasis away from 'old fashioned meeting place/sports bar' to 'classy restaurant-bar'.
Those of you who know the place will know that most of the clientèle have ended up in there precisely because every other pub in the West End has undergone this alleged improvement. There is a petition behind the bar for anyone wishing to record their objection against Mitchells & Butlers (complaints can also be made directly at http://www.mbplc.com/index.asp?pageid=19)
If anybody is wanting to take pictures of one of Glasgow's most famous bars before it has its character destroyed forever, you've got 2 months.
Really sad news that Tennents bar on the corner, halfway down Byres Road is to be ' extensively refurbished' by Mitchells & Butlers Brewery in the New Year.
It's to be shut on the 1st Jan for 2 months and gutted. Apparently the Basement will be no more, it being made into a large kitchen. The main room will be knocked into the 'Wee T' and the place filled with tables as the Brewery change the emphasis away from 'old fashioned meeting place/sports bar' to 'classy restaurant-bar'.
Those of you who know the place will know that most of the clientèle have ended up in there precisely because every other pub in the West End has undergone this alleged improvement. There is a petition behind the bar for anyone wishing to record their objection against Mitchells & Butlers (complaints can also be made directly at http://www.mbplc.com/index.asp?pageid=19)
If anybody is wanting to take pictures of one of Glasgow's most famous bars before it has its character destroyed forever, you've got 2 months.