The Golden Age of Sauchiehall Street: Glasgow’s Fashionable Rendevous – Copland and Lye’s Restaurant De Luxe – Music by the Caledonian House Orchestra, April and May, 1909

An advertisement for Copland and Lye, Sauchiehall Street, on the front page of The Glasgow Herald, on Monday

the 12th of April, 1909, informed readers that the “New” Restaurant de Luxe would open to the public on Tuesday

the 13th. It was located on the second floor of the Caledonian House, facing Sauchiehall Street.

 

Music was provided by the Caledonian House Orchestra, from 1 till 5. An advertisement on the front page of the

Herald, on Monday the 24th of May, 1909, indicates that the orchestra played from 12 to 4 on Saturdays.

 

 

George Fairfull-Smith, October 2022.