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Craig s Restaurant, latterly The Gordon, on its last day in April 1955. Picture: Herald and Times Group IN A city known for its grand tearooms and fabulous bakeries, Craig’s was a cut above. Owned by businessman and art lover James Craig, there were at one point around 20 across the city, including this one on Gordon Street, captured by our photographers in April 1955. Known as Craig’s Tearoom, or Craig’s Restaurant, also the Gordon, it was a sumptuous bolthole for businessmen and ladies who lunched, like its sister restaurant The Ruhl on Sauchiehall Street. Times Past reader Ian Hutcheson describes Craig’s as like “a gallery in the Louvre, kitted out with lunch tables.”