Which defunct shops/restaurants do you miss the most?

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For me, Topshop. Was really gutted when it closed down. Restaurant: Herman ze German. Expensive but always enjoyed the food!

La Senza’s a good call. I miss 80s Body Shop.

To the pp missing Yankee, what about the one on Prospect St in what used to be gas showroom, opposite Woolies?

HMV. Will never forget how exciting it used to feel buying new music. Listening to new albums on their headphones, browsing the posters…aaah.

I don’t miss John Menzies in the sense that they wouldn’t have anything I’d want to buy now, but I miss being 6 years old and going there with my late dad on a Saturday morning. He’d go to buy his magazines and take my brother and I along for the ride.

We’d look at all the toys whilst whispering to each other about whether or not dad would ask us to choose a sweetie and a comic (he always did, but he waited until he’d chosen his magazines to ask us…the suspense!).

The book people, packs of kids books, fiction collections and an excellent selection of non fiction. So sad they are gone.

Chimichanga

Hummus Bros had the best hummus I've ever tasted in my life, and these wonderfully fluffy warm pitta breads.

They've not gone, but since moving out of London I've really missed buying half price sushi at wasabi and itsu as they just don't exist here.

Pre-teen me was gutted when Tammy closed.

Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins all had petite sections. It was already very hard to buy trousers with a 28" inside leg; Primark seem to have largely discontinued their already limited selection and now New Look is one of the few places left to buy them. Occasionally people suggest I buy trousers in the children's section without thinking through that they're sized for pre-pubescent children whereas I am a grown woman with HIPS!

Remember the shop Past Times?
And the restaurant Happy Eater, with the big giraffe?

Books etc and the Aroma coffee shops inside them. They were a great place to people-watch.

My 8 year old self misses Zodiac Toys

Laura ashley

The original House of Fraser, I don't count the one that's there now, they have taken out all the good stuff and replaced it with Sports Direct.

BHS for homeware and DH's clothes, and Woolworths.

I was just coming on to write the Dutch Pancake House in Manchester. So many great memories of that place

The Pier - I hadn't heard it was closing and I was only a little bit short of devastated when I found out.
The other one that I miss was Monsoon - it was as if they actually designed their clothes purely for my taste!

Mothercare, such fond memories of tootling around there in a buzz of excitement preparing for babies birth, couldn’t do that for our youngest and we still miss it.

Omg yes Past Times! I loved looking in there as a child, haven’t thought about it in years.

Woolworths! I worked there from when I was 16-21, so many good memories. Everyone wanted to work on the “entertainment” counter with the CDs 😂

Lol, and embarrassed face - I meant Past Times, not The Pier, even though I did quite like a lot of things in The Pier, but I was not gutted when they closed, like I was for Past Times. I had also forgotten Laura Ashley, and I actually bought my Wedding Dress and Jacket there for my Second Wedding 😳☺️👰

As so many have said, Woolworths! I was that customer on the advert who went in for one thing and came out with five… a bit like the aisle of doom in Aldi! 🤣
I’ve still got an Amarylis that I bought from there, reduced as it was growing in the box, and it faithfully flowers every year 🌺

Cafe Rouge. Ours was bright and airy. Really chilled place for brunch. We tried the alternative, Cote, but it was a grim experience.

Woolworth for random bits - stuff for the house or garden, or sewing / clothes repairs. B&M etc don't have the same kind of range.

BHS for home stuff and lighting.

Debenhams had gone downhill a bit, but we always seeked to get some nice kids stuff there. I miss the beauty counters, Boots doesn't have the same kind of range - I would now need to travel an hour away. Plus my nearest Debenhams was in such a unique setting, it felt really glamourous when I was a child with its chandeliers and sweeping staircases (Chester).

Shelleys and Ravel - for shoes
Ourprice- for music
Warehouse and Topshop - clothes

I loved Woolies, my DS’ are just about old enough to remember it too.

Browns of Chester (pre Debenhams), Bus Stop, George Henry Lee (pre John Lewis) and Mariette et Cie (Llandudno).

La Senza
Jane Norman
Past Times
Body Shop in the 80s
Boots Natural Collection in the late 90s

Debenhams.

And the little independent Toy Cupboard near me that had been going for 50 years and I could remember being taken to as a child every birthday. It was like an Aladdin's cave, looked tiny from the outside but had 4 floors crammed with toys. It closed during the first lockdown and never reopened.

Does anybody remember a ladies clothes shop called Solo? Round about the 80s.

The price point was a bit more than I could really afford at the time. But the few bits I did buy there I absolutely loved and wore them to death.

Also Cable & Co shoes. Borders books on Oxford Street. Coast ( the online now just isn't as good).
Principles, dare I show my age and say Richards!