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[[File:56-2017-02.JPG|frame|February 2017]]
== 2024 == Dosa Darlings == 2017 -2023 ==
Cafe Tarifa is a bar & restaurant occupying 56-60 Cowley Road. It is part of a chain including Cafe CoCo at [[23|23 Cowley Road]] and Kazbar at [[25|25-27 Cowley Road]].
Before Cafe Tarifa moved in, 56-60 was occupied by the old-fashioned 'Moonlight Tandoori' restaurant. The front door was on the corner of the building (now a window), where the original doorstep is still visible. In Marilyn Yurdan's The Changing Faces of the Cowley Road there is a photo of the Moonlight's owner, Wasid Ali, dated February 1988.
== No 56 ==
Kelly's Directory 1943 to 1976 No 56 Meteor Cleaners. On Youtube is a Cine Film of 56 Cowley Road Circa 1973<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYq2BUI0MBY</ref>. There is also a brief glimpse of 58 Cowley Road which at the time was Kumling Chinese restaurant<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYq2BUI0MBY</ref> [[File:17-Oct-17 5-36-20 PM.png|frame|600px|Outside 56 Cowley Road, Meteor Cleaners, in about 1972. The lady on the left is Lilian Cadle who was manageress of the dry cleaners from 1962 to1975(?) She lived above the shop with her husband Richard (Dick) Cadle who was a tool maker at Pressed Steel Fisher . The other people are their son and his children, plus a few passers by and a costumer.<br/> The shop behind, on the opposite corner of Circus Street with the awning is 54 Cowley Road which at the time was a gentleman's outfitter.]]
== No 58 ==
