The Pavilion Restaurant

PAVILION RESTAURANT, 464, Paisley Road, Glasgow. Proprietor: Mr. Hermann Schnake.

    One of the most popular and, unquestionably, one of the most attractive of the many refreshment resorts with which Glasgow teems is that known as the Pavilion Restaurant at the Paisley Road Toll — long established and well known for the excellence of its catering and the unstinted and thoroughly liberal character of its daily refections. As a landmark of that busy vicinity in which it is so favourably located, it has long possessed conveniences and advantages of quite an exceptional kind, and it is these conveniences which have been made available to the wishes of its large community of supporters alike during the past proprietary and that of Mr. Hermann Schnake, the present esteemed and respected principal of the restaurant, who — within his brief occupancy of four years — has done much to extend its already well-founded popularity and celebrity as a first-class epicurean resort. During those few years he has spared neither expense nor exertions to render it a place of great and increasing attractiveness, and to this end also he has introduced such systems as have already found appreciation among all classes desiring refreshment under comfortable conditions and at the most moderate prices.

    The Pavilion is situated just at the point where the Glasgow and Govan car lines converge, and it is thus impossible for any one going to or coming from the cars to fail to notice the Restaurant with its many inviting characteristics. To the front are the neat bar and private room ; to the left the spacious and roof-lit dining saloon ; and to the rear the comfortable smoke-room and lavatories fitted and appointed in a manner worthy of imitation by those houses who profess to pay such regard to matters of public convenience. Here persons of whatever rank may find at all hours of the day an ample range of choice in viands prepared with scrupulous care and served in the best style. The constant variation of the bill of fare is one of its especial and outstanding features, and the great question of “Where to dine ? ” is admirably solved by the splendid arrangements of the Pavilion Restaurant, at which the least affluent may be sumptuously treated on terms available to all.

    The great outstanding virtue of the Pavilion is that people working or engaged at Kinning Park or Govan can have a first-class dinner or tea without going up to Glasgow, where there is no better and certainly no more comfortable restaurant to be found. It may be said to form an intermediate centre between Glasgow and Govan, being within easy reach of either, while gentlemen from the City or elsewhere visiting the district will find it much to their advantage to pass an hour and resume their business without interruption, the going and returning from the City representing a loss of several hours. Then, besides, the Pavilion is the only high-class restaurant in this district, and is regulated and guided on principles of method which for business men cannot fail to appreciate. For its Wines, Spirits, Lager beer, and in fact all Continental drinks, the Pavilion bears a long-standing repute, and it is a matter of common acknowledgment among its frequenters that the cellars are replete with some recherché Liqueurs of a quality obtainable only at the costliest hotels. Nothing can equal the delightful character of the joints and entrees daily submitted to the public by the proprietor, many of these being served in thorough Continental fashion.

    The Pavilion also possesses the unique advantage of being under the personal management of one who was for many years chef in several of the best Edinburgh and Glasgow hotels, also in H.M.S. “Lord Ward” (Commander, H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh). He is assisted both in the bar and and restaurant by a staff of smart, intelligent, and agreeable girls, and their presence is not by any means the least inviting feature of the Pavilion Restaurant. As a public restaurateur and caterer of ability, Mr. Schnake has been entrusted with the carrying through of many important contracts in providing for dinners and suppers of a public character, and a notable example of the completeness with which this branch of work is invariably fulfilled was presented in his purveying for the Municipal supper given in the Masonic Hall, Paisley Road, on the evening of 26th February last, being the annual convivial of the Fourth Ward of the Burgh of Govan. Mr. William Hood was chairman, and among those present were two Provosts and many worthies well known and associated with commercial and municipal interests. All expressed themselves delighted with the superior manner in which the supper was laid and served, and the enjoyment of the occasion was greatly enhanced by the excellence of the catering.

    From what has been said above it may be inferred that Mr. Schnake is as well known in the surrounding Burghs as he is in the City, and in both places he has made many fast friends by his generous liberality and courtesy manifested alike in business or social circles. Although a German by birth, he became a naturalized subject of Her Majesty, and has joined the 1st Lanark Volunteers, a regiment in which he has gained rapid popularity and to which he has already become a creditable and worthy acquisition.

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