Forte's - 100 years of wonderful !
Forte's is a real piece of Dundee history.
Up side:
I passed this place for a year or two, thinking every time I saw the vintage shop front how great it would be if it was actually real, I seriously thought it was just an old shop front that hadn't been replaced. :D
But one day I stopped hoping beyond hope that what I thought was there actually was. And lo and behold I walked into pure Dundee heaven!
Behind the old shop front was an amazing find, you walk in through an old sweety shop selling lucky tatties, sweety peanuts and home made ice-cream into a tiny cafe frozen in time. The menu reads like a Monty Python sketch sporting every combination of cheese, ham, tomato, onion, egg, bacon and tuna on hot toasted Dundee rolls, tinned Heinz soup, and the most amazing frothy coffee made by an ancient coffee machine held together with bolts and welds. The cakes are all by Tunnocks and the knickerbocker glory's are fab!!
Its truly like stepping back in time, the crockery is the old 1970's glass ware and the family that run it banter with the customers, all making it a great experience. If we have visitors we always take them there for a bacon, cheese and onion roll and a lime milkshake, and a bag of sweetys on the way out.
Its open till 4 on a Sunday and is a great stop off for a natter after a look round Curr and Dewar's auction house.
Down side:
The old booths have seats about 18 inches deep and are made for midgets, but it all adds to the fun!