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‘Just a person who liked chips’: Bristol takeaway celebrates Cary Grant ties
Rendezvous restaurant loved by young Archibald Leach marks film star’s 120th birthday
Grant, who was born Archibald Leach in the west country city in January 1904, may be more associated with fine restaurants in Los Angeles and New York but when he returned to Bristol he always, apparently, loved a bag of fish and chips and would eat a takeaway from the Rendezvous sitting in his Rolls-Royce. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The GuardianAs well as visiting the Rendezvous, Hannon said he dined at the upmarket restaurant, Harvey’s, a few doors up from the fish and chip shop and would get spectacles from Dunscombe’s on the corner of Denmark Street and St Augustine’s Parade. The walls of the Rendezvous are dotted with signed photos of stars who have performed at the Hippodrome and eaten at the restaurant, from Ronnie Barker to Barbara Dickson, David Hasselhoff and Kid Creole.
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