A Card for The Cathay/Chinese Restaurant, Glasshouse Street, London

I’ve blogged before on the famous Cathay Restaurant, also known as just The Chinese Restaurant that used to be on Glasshouse Street and was once famous courtesy of the lights in Piccadilly Circus. It was one of London’s oldest and longest running Chinese restaurants (well into the 1970s at least) – use the search box on the home page and just put “Glasshouse” in. Sadly the original building was demolished a few years ago.

Many thanks to ChinaRhyming reader Allan Carter, whose parents knew the establishment’s owners, who sent me an original card from the restaurant….. here the restaurant claims to be the oldest (very debatable) and has the logo – “Where West Eats East” and midnight opening hours!