10/05/2007

One of Glasgow’s oldest bar and restaurants will be celebrating its official re-opening with a menu straight out of the Victorian era.

Diners at Sloan’s, just off Buchanan Street, will be able to tuck into dishes from the original 1900 menu – including fillet sole, roast sirloin of beef and oysters – which patrons enjoyed when David Sloan re-opened the building under his name in 1900.
 
And the first 50 people to make a reservation for the first floor eatery, The Crystal Restaurant, tonight (May 10) will be able enjoy the menu for just 18 shillings, or 90 pence, for two courses.

The project to restore Sloan's to its former glory, with an investment of £2million, is a collaboration between Oli Norman, of DADA Events Ltd and Billy McAneney of the Baby Grand Group.

– One of Scotland's oldest bar workers has also come out of retirement to work at Sloan's. Nancy Gibson, 70, will return to the licensed trade this month to take up her new post behind the bar. She held her engagement at the restaurant in the 1950s.