This building at Tecumseh Rd and Moy, has a long history as a restaurant, as I recently discovered.
As I was looking through an old booklet from 1954, I came across this ad for the Bel-Air Restaurant…
Someone along the way bricked in every other window along the side, but it’s still a restaurant. According to some of the long time business owners along that stretch of Tecumseh, the Bel-Air closed sometime in the 1970’s.
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I would talk to a liquor inspector or bar owner but I thought that's what you were here for? ;)
My great grandfather was a liquor inspector for "District One" Appointed by the "Ontario Liquor Hotel Authority Board" in 1944. Too bad he wasn't still around :)
I asked Kathryn Wagner out for coffee at the Bel-Air after Evensong at St Barnabas Church in early December 1964. We are still happily together and married since 1967. Thanks Bel-Air!
Doug Skoyles and Kathryn Wagner: two names from the past. Do hope this site sends out updates to those who made comments. A fine hello to the two of you!
I lived on Moy just down from the Bel-Air and attended John Campbell and KCI and went to church at St. Barnabas. That was a full fifty years ago!
Cheers!
After the Big Boy at Tec. & Elrose, the Bel-Air was the place to hang out. If we got too rowdy, Alex would come out of the kitchen, stand there with a meat claver in his hand and not say a word. I took my wife there minutes after I gave her a ring and we had a slice of the best Boston cream pie. The banana cream was pretty good too.
Does anyone know anything about 414 Tecumseh Road East? Was it ever a restaurant in the 1940s?
I have a personal interest as a relative lived at that address in 1946 and mentioned in a letter that he had opened a restaurant, but not sure whether it was there or elsewhere in the city.