Ashton Lane
Cobbled West End mews of bars, restaurants and a historic cinema, set in former stables and coach-houses.
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This guide to Ashton Lane in Glasgow's West End follows the money on a cobbled mews that began as stables and coach-houses. It centres on Ronnie Clydesdale, a whisky-bond manager and self-taught cook, in the mid nineteen seventies, when the lease on his first restaurant across Byres Road came up for renewal. Along the way you meet the Grosvenor cinema and the artist Alasdair Gray. Best heard standing outside the white-painted Ubiquitous Chip.
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