Since day one
The Three-Ladle
Spaghetti, slow chili and a mountain of shredded cheddar. The one everybody starts with.
Our story
One pot,one ladle,no days off.
In 1962 Nell Ladleworth opened a six-stool counter with a single pot on the back burner. She never let it run empty, and she ladled every bowl herself until the line reached the corner.
Sixty years and eleven parlours later the pot is bigger and the ladle is the same one. So is the rule: nobody leaves without crackers.
The family, the dates and the parlours are fictional.
- 1962Six stools and one pot
- 1978A second counter opens
- 1994Crackers join the menu
- 2024Parlour number eleven