111 Hope Street, Glasgow. G2 6LL. Tel: 0141 248 6645.
Adlib. 2008.
Adlib is part of the Baby Grand Group. It has an American Diner theme. There is also an Adlib at 33 Ingram Street, Glasgow. G1 1HA Telephone: 0141 552 5736.
This was formerly called Junkanoo and Pappa Zeb and The Europa.
Advert 1971.
In 1973 the name of this popular disco was called Europa.
Europa Advert. 1973.
Ad-Lib, 111 Hope Street, Glasgow, Advert from 1976.
In the NEWS 1979…
New Night Club for Glasgow…
Our CITY fathers will later this month sit down to consider an application for a new night club, I can reveal. But it’s the enigmatic guy behind the application that I find more interesting.
He’s Eddie Topalion, late of the Ad Lib restaurant, Hope Street. Eddie has been lying low since he sold the restaurant to Gino Romano for a tidy sum, but it was no secret that he had plans to open an entertainments complex with chartered accountant Brian McVey.
That was to have been in Springfield Court, but their plans were set back because Mr McVey was refused a gaming licence for a proposed casino on the grounds that he did not have any experience.
Peculiarly, Eddie has the experience, having managed a casino in London’s Soho district, but he insisted that he was not interested in the gaming side of things.
Now it would appear that Messrs McVey and Topalion have parted company. The site proposed for Mr Topalion’s licensed nightclub is in the basement of 33 Virginia Street.
“I want people to be happy,” was one of Mr Topalion’s favourite sayings, and with our city fathers’ consent he might just get the chance.
Junkanoo, 1991.
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I have 2 framed pictures from the Ad-Lib. One is Life Magazine with sailors, the other Blue Chip advertising Cointreau, Piper Champagne and another I can’t remember. I have them through my parents who met there. Dad was the chef I think.
Food was good there…..you ate well as a kid haha! Had some mad nights in there late 90’s and early 2000s. Good wee place en route down from Bath Street bars like Moskito then hop along to Beer Halle on Gordon Street and move over to Strata for cocktails on Queen Street then into Planet Peach across the road when the queue started to build up. Takes me back to my glory days..2006..(Burnistoun)..actually 2001/2002.