SPQR - Shared Kitchen
The book
A chat with owner Chris Rupe
Looking back
I’ve been eating at SPQR since the beginning of time, or at least it seems that way. I knew the owner of the motorbike company that was in the space before SPQR even came along. I was once driven home on one of those frighteningly huge loud bikes, literally home, right up the path and up the wooden steps to the front door. My mother had a fit. I was thrilled: The speed, the sound, the daring. Years later, I watched that business get dismantled, metal, grease pots, oil-stained timber, crapped out trucks, bit by bit, watched the mechanics in grubby overalls move to some place out of town, and all those immaculately kept machines roar out of town with them.
We worked in the film world back in the early 90s and were well aware of SPQR’s impending arrival. I’d been buying fruit and vege from Bhana Bros, still situated across the road from SPQR today...
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