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== 1954-2014 ==

The Excelsior 'greasy spoon' cafe was a Cowley Road institution which closed in 2014, as [http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11371061.Closing_time_for_cafe_after_53_years_of_froth_and_stir/ reported by the Oxford Mail]. It first appeared in directories as the New Excelsior (J H Harrison) in 1954. Before that it was a ~~cafe~~ café run by Mrs E Chiddington from 1939 and by Mrs M E Harding from 1947.

A memorable [http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/excelsior_special.htm review by Robin Mackay] described the atmosphere (evidently predating the 2007 smoking ban):

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