Coventry city centre (10 Viewers)

[dutchman]

The original Ring Road was all at ground level but abandoned after only two sections had been completed. It had cycle lanes, grass borders and pedestrian footpaths on both sides too.

 

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[Nick]

I 'outlined' that the council bring the Swanswell Pool into the city centre too.

Another way to get more bodies in the city centre?

 

[Otis]

Another way to get more bodies in the city centre?

Weighed down by bricks do you mean?

 

[I_Saw_Shaw_Score]

Ah, Millie's Kitchen.

Been voted in the top 10 places to eat in the city centre.

Went to go to it today after yesterday’s mention and it was closed!!

The noodle place next to it had a queue 25/30 people deep!

 

[dutchman]

Went to go to it today after yesterday’s mention and it was closed!!

Otis must have put the kibosh on it?

 

[Gazolba]

The council made a big mistake here though in terms of going for small businesses to fill the basin rather than the restaurant and entertainment angle of Birmingham.

What they did was make Coventry Canal Basin a bit of a pointless journey for the general public.

I used to go up there, but it's pretty much all just tiny businesses there working out of units and workshops.

To me that's what gives it charm. Why go there if it's crowded with people and the same kind of businesses as everywhere else?
I used to walk all the way to the canal basin along the canal footpath from my mother's house near the Barras pub.
Walked to the Greyhound pub from her house too, along the canal in the opposite direction.

 

[Otis]

To me that's what gives it charm. Why go there if it's crowded with people and the same kind of businesses as everywhere else?
I used to walk all the way to the canal basin along the canal footpath from my mother's house near the Barras pub.
Walked to the Greyhound pub from her house too, along the canal in the opposite direction.

Well, tend to agree, but then any retail or restaurant unit they have ever had there has closed down.

Needs to be a better mix. You walk up there and all the doors are shut because they are all small craft workshops or businesses. There is nothing there for the general public, so it's pointless going.

 

[Otis]

First pictures in of the Botanist in Cathedral Lanes.

Opens Monday and looks lovely inside.

Glad they have made use of the glass roof.

 

[fernandopartridge]

First pictures in of the Botanist in Cathedral Lanes.

Opens Monday and looks lovely inside.

Glad they have made use of the glass roof.

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Looks good. I think they've done an excellent job with Cathedral Lanes, the morons on Facebook are complaining that they want buses running through the square again

 

[Otis]

Looks good. I think they've done an excellent job with Cathedral Lanes, the morons on Facebook are complaining that they want buses running through the square again

Really? Ha! Numpties.

 

[hill83]

Looks good. I think they've done an excellent job with Cathedral Lanes, the morons on Facebook are complaining that they want buses running through the square again

Do you post on skyscrapercity?

 

[clint van damme]

First pictures in of the Botanist in Cathedral Lanes.

Opens Monday and looks lovely inside.

Glad they have made use of the glass roof.

looks impressive, I think I'll give this a go, really like the look of the premises and the menu.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

looks impressive, I think I'll give this a go, really like the look of the premises and the menu.

The whole plating concept is too ridiculous for me. Next we'll be having goldfish regurgitating cheesecake into the laps of dwarves, for us to lick it up off.

 

[Otis]

It got a lot of annoyance and irkism on here when first mooted.

'I'm not eating my dinner off a f**king trowel' type comments.

My neice went to one branch and said it was lovely.

 

[Otis]

And....voila!!!!!

Looks mighty impressive to me and if the food tastes great then that's the main thing anyway.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Do you post on skyscrapercity?

Yeah

 

[Otis]

Went to MOD Pizza, Leicester Square today. Very, very good.

All is not lost though, NW. Basement Browns here has been voted one of the best pizza places in the country.

This Coventry pizzeria is one of the best in the country

 

[Nick]

It does look nice in Cathedral Lanes, one of my pet hates is when you go out and you are sat directly next to people. So close you could eat their dinner. Those middle tables would annoy me.

 

[Otis]

It does look nice in Cathedral Lanes, one of my pet hates is when you go out and you are sat directly next to people. So close you could eat their dinner. Those middle tables would annoy me.

Couldn't you threaten them with a scissor kick?

 

[Nick]

Couldn't you threaten them with a scissor kick?

It's all about elbows.

 

[hill83]

It's all about elbows.

Just take the waiter out showing you your table early doors. Worth the booking.

 

[Mcbean]

It does look nice in Cathedral Lanes, one of my pet hates is when you go out and you are sat directly next to people. So close you could eat their dinner. Those middle tables would annoy me.

I also hate this and probably people would hate sitting to next to us - my wife is loud

 

[Nick]

I also hate this and probably people would hate sitting to next to us - my wife is loud

I don't think it's that sort of place mate

 

[Otis]

I also hate this and probably people would hate sitting to next to us - my wife is loud

Especially when I make love to her.

 

[clint van damme]

Especially when I make love to her.

Fucking hell Otis!

 

[Nick]

Fucking hell Otis!

I reckon he's opened up a can of Carling and sat back smoking a cig after posting that.

 

[Mcbean]

Especially when I make love to her.

In a sort of Harry met Sally moment - i'd be game

 

[dancers lance]

Especially when I make love to her.

 

[Gazolba]

First pictures in of the Botanist in Cathedral Lanes.

Opens Monday and looks lovely inside.

Glad they have made use of the glass roof.

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Looks nice, anyone eaten there yet?

 

[Otis]

Opens today.

 

[tommydazzle]

Apologies if Cov already do this but in Norwich they get huge numbers of families into the city centre during the summer with such a simple idea which grows every year. This year it was the 'Go Go Hares'. They get local artists (I think any arty type can bid for a single commission) to build human sized animals (has been dragons - so mythical sometimes) which are then distributed around the city. The idea is to track them down and tick them off - there are apps, stickers etc but most of the families I see are taking selfies alongside the hare they've spotted, I suppose to make a photo collection - they are all different and superbly made. They had 50 or so in the city centre this year in shop windows, libraries, museums, prominent places etc and also this year they had quite a few out in the towns. In my local market town we had a fabulous mosaic one appropriately outside my regular micro-pub the Hop Inn. A local cycling club used them as a basis for some kind of county race. At the end of the summer they are all auctioned off and the money raised is for local, usually, children's charities. Most of them go for thousands ofpounds plus there's lots of mechandising as well to the public. My local Town Council bought the one outside the Hop Inn to keep it there. It's a simple idea but it is incredible to see the swarms of families having fun collecting them and this of course has the spin off for all the local restaurants, fast food places like pizza, burger joints etc. If somebody had pitched this as an idea I would have doubted its merits but has proved very successful.

 

[Mcbean]

Apologies if Cov already do this but in Norwich they get huge numbers of families into the city centre during the summer with such a simple idea which grows every year. This year it was the 'Go Go Hares'. They get local artists (I think any arty type can bid for a single commission) to build human sized animals (has been dragons - so mythical sometimes) which are then distributed around the city. The idea is to track them down and tick them off - there are apps, stickers etc but most of the families I see are taking selfies alongside the hare they've spotted, I suppose to make a photo collection - they are all different and superbly made. They had 50 or so in the city centre this year in shop windows, libraries, museums, prominent places etc and also this year they had quite a few out in the towns. In my local market town we had a fabulous mosaic one appropriately outside my regular micro-pub the Hop Inn. A local cycling club used them as a basis for some kind of county race. At the end of the summer they are all auctioned off and the money raised is for local, usually, children's charities. Most of them go for thousands ofpounds plus there's lots of mechandising as well to the public. My local Town Council bought the one outside the Hop Inn to keep it there. It's a simple idea but it is incredible to see the swarms of families having fun collecting them and this of course has the spin off for all the local restaurants, fast food places like pizza, burger joints etc. If somebody had pitched this as an idea I would have doubted its merits but has proved very successful.

Same in Bath with Owls ! my BIL bought one

 

[Otis]

Apologies if Cov already do this but in Norwich they get huge numbers of families into the city centre during the summer with such a simple idea which grows every year. This year it was the 'Go Go Hares'. They get local artists (I think any arty type can bid for a single commission) to build human sized animals (has been dragons - so mythical sometimes) which are then distributed around the city. The idea is to track them down and tick them off - there are apps, stickers etc but most of the families I see are taking selfies alongside the hare they've spotted, I suppose to make a photo collection - they are all different and superbly made. They had 50 or so in the city centre this year in shop windows, libraries, museums, prominent places etc and also this year they had quite a few out in the towns. In my local market town we had a fabulous mosaic one appropriately outside my regular micro-pub the Hop Inn. A local cycling club used them as a basis for some kind of county race. At the end of the summer they are all auctioned off and the money raised is for local, usually, children's charities. Most of them go for thousands ofpounds plus there's lots of mechandising as well to the public. My local Town Council bought the one outside the Hop Inn to keep it there. It's a simple idea but it is incredible to see the swarms of families having fun collecting them and this of course has the spin off for all the local restaurants, fast food places like pizza, burger joints etc. If somebody had pitched this as an idea I would have doubted its merits but has proved very successful.

Sounds great.

In Cov it is 'Find the Homeless Person'.

The whole thing is over in about 27 seconds.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Apologies if Cov already do this but in Norwich they get huge numbers of families into the city centre during the summer with such a simple idea which grows every year. This year it was the 'Go Go Hares'. They get local artists (I think any arty type can bid for a single commission) to build human sized animals (has been dragons - so mythical sometimes) which are then distributed around the city. The idea is to track them down and tick them off - there are apps, stickers etc but most of the families I see are taking selfies alongside the hare they've spotted, I suppose to make a photo collection - they are all different and superbly made. They had 50 or so in the city centre this year in shop windows, libraries, museums, prominent places etc and also this year they had quite a few out in the towns. In my local market town we had a fabulous mosaic one appropriately outside my regular micro-pub the Hop Inn. A local cycling club used them as a basis for some kind of county race. At the end of the summer they are all auctioned off and the money raised is for local, usually, children's charities. Most of them go for thousands ofpounds plus there's lots of mechandising as well to the public. My local Town Council bought the one outside the Hop Inn to keep it there. It's a simple idea but it is incredible to see the swarms of families having fun collecting them and this of course has the spin off for all the local restaurants, fast food places like pizza, burger joints etc. If somebody had pitched this as an idea I would have doubted its merits but has proved very successful.

They've done similar in Manchester with bees. Currently doing it with the snowman around Salford Quays. Like you say it does get families in and using the cafes and restaurants

 

[Nick]

Opens today.

If you go, post a picture of the meal to see if it's one of those places where you don't really get much actual food but loads of fancy stuff nobody eats.