The menus nobody kept
Five counters closed on Calder Street, and not one of them kept a menu. We went looking anyway. Part three of The Last Diners.
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October 2026
Line 4 is diverted, so we walked it
Five and a half miles, eleven stops, one very patient driver. What you see of Port Calder when the streetcar doesn't come.
Buildings
Who will save the Glasshouse Garage?
The city's ugliest parking garage has a fan club, a landmark bid and a demolition date.
Buildings
A field guide to the Dock Road night market
Forty stalls, three rules and the dumpling line that is worth every minute.
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The night shift
From eleven until the first bus, Rosa's belongs to the drivers. Part two of The Last Diners.
Food
September 2026
The baker who opens at four
Ines Moreau has baked the same rye for thirty-one years. She would like you to stop asking for sourdough.
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The counter at Rosa's
Six counters on Calder Street in 1990, one left today. We start where the coffee is still poured from a steel jug.
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Every neon sign left on the Esplanade, ranked
Fourteen signs still glow after dark. We walked the boardwalk at one in the morning to rank them, gently.
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Small Rooms, part 2: the back bar at the Anchor
Sixty people, one fan, and the band everyone in Port Calder will claim they saw first.
NightsSmall Rooms, part 1: the cellar at Doyle's
Forty people, a ceiling you can touch and the best sound in Port Calder, if you stand in the right place.
Nights
August 2026
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The clock-winder of St. Brendan's
Every Thursday for twenty-six years, Walter Penhale has climbed ninety-four steps to keep the city on time.
PeopleWhat's in season at the Corn Exchange
Late tomatoes, the first leeks and a vendor with opinions about both. A short guide to the best two weeks of the market year.
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The night-bus canteen that feeds the whole shift
Below the bus depot, a kitchen with no name feeds the whole night network. Nobody has ever reviewed it. Until now.
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The apartments above the fish market
Forty households, one elevator and a smell the management company calls "maritime".
Buildings
July 2026
Inside the streetcar depot that became a climbing wall
The old Line 2 depot closed in 2009. Now three hundred people a night hang from its roof trusses, on purpose.
BuildingsThe lost-and-found office at Central Station
Eleven umbrellas a day, one tuba a year, and a clerk who has kept every odd glove since 2004.
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