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Ruby Foo's, Montreal, Canada (restaurant) |
Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3946
From: Santa Barbara, CA
|  Posted: 2010-02-12 11:18 am Permalink
Name:Ruby Foo's
Type:restaurant
Street:7655 Decaire Blvd
City:Montreal
State:
Zip:
country:Canada
Phone:
Status:operational
Description:
This is one of those cool Chinese restaurants that jumped on the Poly Pop bandwagon in the 1960s. I have this postcard showing the outside of the hotel and restaurant.
The great neon signage.
The hotel building was pretty cool too, with those outrigger style beams.
Rickshaw alley!
Here is the drink and dinner menu set with the combo of the eastern and Polynesian women from Tiki Gallery. I have the dinner menu and have been looking for that drink menu for ever.
It is still operational, but like all things cool has de-evolved.
Here is the message from the web site:
Hotel Ruby Foo’s in Montreal is evolving to serve you better. We are proud to offer 108 deluxe guest rooms and two restaurants for an entirely new experience at Hotel Ruby Foo’s.
A new experience indeed. New is not better in this case.
DC
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10600
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-02-12 11:57 am Permalink
Arrrgh! Look a that MURAL! Man o man, how I wanna see a full frontal close up of that!
The way it looks now is sooo typical for Hotels and bars these days: "designerish", modern, slick, wood, a few cool lamps, but all in all very stayed, not taking any chances. That is to me where modernism failed: Modernism today rarely ventures beyond "good design" and "good taste" now, very nice, but very safe, which makes it generic and boring.
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tikiyaki
Grand Member (5 years) 
Joined: May 18, 2004
Posts: 2677
From: The Exotic Port of REDONDO BEACH, CA
| Posted: 2010-02-12 12:04 pm Permalink
And how....Just look at the original signage too...truly a lost art. Nothing like "understated modern"....zzzzzzzzzz
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3946
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2010-02-20 07:33 am Permalink
Here is a Ruby Foos matchbook with the dragon and serving gals logos.
DC
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Bora Boris
Mr. Unreasonable
Joined: Mar 25, 2005
Posts: 2416
From: Boogie Wonderland
| Posted: 2010-02-20 1:54 pm Permalink
Look! It's a Ruby Foo's swizzle! 
Those Canadians sure do love spoon swizzles. It must be a socialist thing.
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TIKIQUÉBEC
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Feb 18, 2010
Posts: 11 | Posted: 2010-02-24 3:40 pm Permalink
ALOHA
I want to show you pieces from Ruby Foo's, in Montréal. I have one "touilleur"----it's the french name and a matchbox with great images.
BYE
TIKIQUÉBEC
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3946
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-06-01 2:19 pm Permalink
TikiQuebec,
Nice matchbook and swizzle.
I finally found one of the Ruby Foo's tropical drink menus to go with my dinner menu.
The front cover with the ladies.
The back of the menu with yet another rum story.
And of course the tropical drinks.
 
Enjoy!
DC
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10600
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2011-06-01 3:56 pm Permalink
What a thing of beauty! Mouthwatering illustrations (I mean the cocktails!) Luckily, I already planned a quick jaunt over to the Tiki Ti.
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3946
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-06-01 6:48 pm Permalink
Sven,
LUCKY! I want to live up the hill from the Tiki Ti! Have a Grog for me.
DC
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