It attracted celebrities including Elton John and Freddie Mercury
When Nottingham's Royal Hotel opened 40 years ago, the city had never seen anything like it. With four restaurants and a Penthouse bar, it was THE place to be seen, attracting crowds in their thousands every night.
"You'd have 5,000 to 6,000 customers in the place. It was absolutely packed. All 201 luxury rooms were full, the reception, the arcade upstairs with all the palm trees was heaving. All the restaurants opened at 6 O'clock, by 6.10pm they would be full. "The kitchens we had were space age. We were the first mega kitchen in Nottingham to have combination ovens and all the modern equipment. The kitchen that produced all the sweets, cakes, pastries and bread was like a mini bakery.
"It was an exciting time to have this super advanced hotel, so heavy on food and beverage and interior design, and space and ambience, a sheer buzz," says Geoff, who arrived in Nottingham to study art and design at Trent Polytechnic and initially worked as a waiter at the Savoy Hotel. "You had all the famous stars at the Concert Hall and afterwards they would be escorted by their security across that tunnel into the arcade and I'd meet them.
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