Dimarco Bros Cafe
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Dimarco Bros Cafe
Thank you to Sam Hyland for contributing the photo
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on 20 Dec 2011 Sandra said Good old Dimarco's always open when you needed it, now a macdonalds! -
on 19 Mar 2012 Mandy said I have very fond memories of my dad regularly taking me with him to work with him (I think he was driving a laundry van and Dimarco's was one of his stops) and taking me in to Dimarco's for a Knicker Bocker Glory in the early 60's
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on 18 Apr 2012 John Bone said Dimarco's used to supply my old school (St. Mary's Star of The Sea) with ice cream on field day. Great times.
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on 21 Jun 2012 Martin said We used to come out of the White Rock Baths and walk along to Dimarco's for a glass of coke and a couple of their lovely sausage rolls.
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on 07 Jul 2012 Les Tizard said My wife used to work there for years before they closed down.
She was a waitress on the restaurant side.
The two brother Michael & Phil didn't like each other very much, but sister Emily used to keep the peace.
I have a few photos of the old place [back & front] befoe the demolished it!
Can always send a few attachments, Cheers - HAPPY DAYS! -
on 19 Jan 2013 Kevin said Is that the reason why there were two entrances to the cafe from Wellington place.As a kid there was always a posh part which we never went in and the other side where we'd go which I'd call the poorer side great days
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on 12 Feb 2013 Andy said Used to go into Town with my partner[,still together now] and have a coffee milky tall glass,oh how i miss that place
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on 12 Feb 2013 Les Tizard said Seem to have lost the pics of Dimarcos back entrance - facing the sea. If they turn up will post them to this site
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on 10 Aug 2013 Caroline said What's your wifes name? I worked there with Paul, Colin and Jane, to name a few. It was great fun. The Knickerbocker Gory was lovely and the Peach Melba. Phil, Michael and Lou (the brothers) were all so different. You could always get round Mr Lou! Seems a lifetime ago now!
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on 05 Sep 2013 Colin Lunt said The left side was as it says, for snacks and was as such a coffee bar where as the right hand was for sit down meals. As I remember it there was a connecting door for staff between the two counters which were back to back. I was only ever bought one Knicker Bocker Glory but there was too much so I did not finish it which proved my parents right of not having aloowed my one peviously. I seem to remember my mum worked there for a time
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on 19 Oct 2014 Colin Larsen said Sad to hear that Dimarcos is now a Macdonalds ....last contact with the family was a weekend mini golf tournament in Hastings hosted by Mike in 1975....think Mike was setting up his own cafe at the time... be great to hear from Mike again...
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on 07 Dec 2014 David Berry said sad to see its gone i remember my mum taking us in there for a meal each time we came into hastings shame they had to change it for all this new fast food rubbish hard to find somewhere that does real food any more everyones in to much of a rush these days. god bless Dimarcoes still lives on in many peopls memories.
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on 05 Aug 2016 Pat Moore (Godden) said Every Saturday afternoon we would visit Dimarco Bros .... Mum would have Welsh Rarebit with Brown Sauce, Cup Tea, Dad would have Meat Pie or Shepherds Pie with Vegetables, Cup Tea, Knicker Bocker Glory for me and a Bottle Lucozade. I have never in my lifetime to date found a Knicker Booker Glory with that taste .... Fruit Cocktail, that famous Italian Ice Cream, Strawberry Sauce, Chocolate Sauce, Cream, Wafer and a Cherry on the top, an indulgent layer after layer .... thank you Dimarco Bros for my childhood memories especially the one where I was allowed to make my own!
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on 23 Dec 2016 leslie & margaret ;2 Tizzies] said Wife Margaret worked there on the waitress side [posh] for many years retired at 60 when the place closed down. Lou [Dipaolo]Emilies hubby was everyones favourite The dipaolo family now have a cafe on the Marina opposite Dela Warr Pavilion Same lovely Ice cream but [now called 'GELLATO']
We are in our Nineties & live in Australia since 2007 CHEERS ! -
on 05 Jan 2017 leslie & margaret tizard said Please send us a note to let us know we are still alive !!
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on 17 Feb 2017 Simon said Great place went there in the 70s as a primary school child can picture the Dimarcos now
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on 06 Apr 2017 Peter said Mum and dad used to take me and my sister for a family treat. We were only little but I have Many memories of the sounds and smells. Pretty sure we had a knickerbocker glory or two when ban came to. Is it. Good memories.
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on 08 Jun 2018 frederick saunter said I was a frequent customer of di marco"s in the 60s when i lived in bedsit land mainly in the cafeteria side but sometimes in the posh side and i used to love their welsh rarebit.and i chatted up one of the waitresses and we dated for a short time went to the cinema etc. she was nice.such happy memories when hastings was a nice town with the memorial clock tower and all the nice Indivisual shops and coffee bars record shops i think the film we went to see was butch cassidy and the sundance kid with robert redford i"m now in my 70th year but still remember those days with fondness.
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on 25 Jun 2018 rob treby said Used to go in Dimarcos quite a lot in the 60's with my friends Kevin H and Fly. Only weekends and holidays though as my parents had a place in Crowhurst but lived in London during the week.
Can't remember the inside of Dimarcos though! -
on 25 Jun 2018 rob treby said PS- I was known as Bob then!
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on 08 Oct 2018 Liz Palombo said I used to work in dimarcos on the side serving meals.Great times and many fond memories.I had a soft spot for Mr Lou.I remember working with Daphne Tizzy Maureen .Anyone else have memories of working there.?Of course johnnie di Paolo opened his own cafe in Bexhill.Have just found out he is retiring.It will be the end of an era .very sad..
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on 27 May 2019 Paul Kleiman said This photo has jogged a memory. As a teenager we had a couple of holidays in Hastings in the mid-60s. De Marcos rings a bell. Our ‘gang’ used to regularly go to a café which had a jukebox. Did De Marcos have a jukebox then?
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on 09 Sep 2019 Joanne said Lez Tizzard, you said your wife worked there for years did she used to have dark hair & wear glasses? If so she always was our waitress. Lovely lady. I can still picture the brothers. Were they twins?
I’m 51 now but I have very fond memories when mum & dad always took my brother, sister & myself to Dimarcos in the 70s. We always had our holidays at Hastings mainly up Shearbarn. I remember they always paid using luncheon vouchers. I can remember our visits there quite well very fond memories ???? -
on 03 Oct 2019 Adam Hughes said I remember Dimarcos very well. My late mum always took me and my sister there for Welsh rarrabit and Knickerbocker Glories. What a name. Often we would meet my dad there for lunch. This was in the 80's. I live in Dublin now. Such wonderful memories.
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on 03 Oct 2019 Adam Hughes said Does anybody remember Vera Hughes, my mum. She was a bit of a character and well known and respected in Hastings. She died of cancer in 1989. We love you mum! X
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on 05 Oct 2019 Elizabeth Woodcock said I worked there on Saturdays when I was at the High school. I was SO nervous of the cook. We had to say "Fish,chips and beans" or "Fish ,chips and green ones (peas) , when ordering. Mr Phil was the grumpy one of the siblings.
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on 05 Oct 2019 Elizabeth Woodcock said This was in 1960 I think. I worked on both sides ,one wasself service so I just cleared the tables. 1/6 an hour!
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on 09 Feb 2020 Bob Bumstead said I would go there with my mum after shopping in the late 50s and early 60s then after I left school the lads would meet in DEMARCO'S in Pelham place then when I left the army I worked on Dengate's buses and we parked in Wellington Square, we took 6d from the till for a cup of tea (for the youngsters 6d was two and a half pence)
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on 28 Mar 2020 Elizabeth Parker said My gran used to take me to Dimarcos cafe back in the 1950s. Used to have a lovely ice cream. Never had such a nice one since. I remember old Mr. Dimarco. He was very kind. My name was Elizabeth Bowers and my Gran was Alice Pike. We moved from Hastings in 1956.
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on 25 Apr 2020 Susan said This picture has really bought back some memories. My mum worked in the cafeteria and I can remember being off school one day and having to go in to work with her. I sat with a colouring book while she worked. I seem to remember a lady who cleared the tables called Annie, I think she worked there for years. Miss you Mum x
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on 14 Jun 2020 Linda Edwards said This was a lovely cafe. During the 1950's on Saturday mornings i would go down the town with my mum, Joyce Beale, and my sister's Diana and Margaret, and we always went to Dimarcos. Mum and my sister's had coffee in tall glass cups and I had ice cream in a silver dish. It always made my head hurt but I still liked it. Times seemed to be so much simpler then.
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on 14 Jul 2020 Nigel Weir said Seeing the picture brought back a lot of memories. From an early age I would go in there with my granddad and he would treat me a Knickerbocker Glory, which was always excellent. as I got older I would meet up with my mates in there. I can still picture Mr. Dimarco in my mind. Great memories.
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on 15 Jul 2020 Barry Lovell said I always remeber hsving s lsrge knickerbocker glory in Demarco;s in the 60's - it cost two and six!! it was always busy and a plenty of chat and atmosphere. Still miss it ......
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on 18 Dec 2020 Terry HENHAM said I remember playing football for Hastings schoolboys, Tilly Demarco laid on a spread for both teams in the cafe after the game. Have to say Tilly was a gentleman and one of the nicest people you could meat
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on 27 Dec 2020 Bernard Dyson said I remember in the 70s going in on a Thursday evening waiting for my mum to finish her shift on the waitress side best trifles ever.
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on 16 Feb 2021 John Ward said My Mum and Dad took us there in the early 50's as a treat. Especially after a visit to the doctor for injections. I remember it before they opened up next door.
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on 20 Feb 2021 Richard Ratcliffe said I took my (then) girlfriend to Hastings on our first date on 20 July 1963. We had a fish and chip lunch at DiMarcos (probably followed by the obligatory ice cream!) before venturing onto the boating lake ("Come in Number 3 your time is up!"). We married in 1969 and are still together. having had so many "meals out" in various restaurants - good and bad - in many parts of the world - this is still "where we started our gourmet journey"!
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on 24 Feb 2021 David Bastable said I used to go there after swimming training at the White Rock baths for a Horllicks
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on 07 Sep 2021 Wilfried.H.Kraus said As a young student (17 years old then) I spent my Easter holidays in Hastings together with two friends to improve our English skills. I remember visting Di Marco`s quite often for a nice cup of tea, since then (1975, 76 and 77) I always think "good tea has to be strong" when you get a cup of tea somewhere on the continent. Really sad to read it`s a Mc D place now. Greetings from Germany
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on 12 Jul 2022 Pat Watson (Langton) said I used to work next door in woolworths and looked forward to popping in for a nice cold drink and sometimes an ice cream after work in the 1970s.
Wonderful memories. -
on 24 Sep 2022 Maria said Remember this and Divitos but does anyone remember The Gondola restaurant either in Bank Buildings or Claremont?
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on 28 Sep 2022 Conrad said Does anyone know how i can contact Gregory Demarco.He was the son of one of the owners
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on 29 Oct 2022 GRAHAM GEORGE DENNESS said I lived in Hastings in the 60's and loved Dimarco's and Wimpy (remember when they toasted the buns) ? loved both of these places. My farther owned a caravan park on The Ridge opposite a girls school. Moved away in 1979/80. Don't miss those hills LoL.
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on 06 Jul 2023 Martyn said My father, at the age of about 15, spent a year at a TB Sanatorium in Ore. When recovering, he and his pals would sneak off when matron was not looking to visit Dimarco's. I think he spoke of two Dimarco sisters working there at that time. My father was born in 1919 so his Dimarco visits would have been in around 1934.
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on 15 Apr 2024 Sarah said With my nan, a knickerbocker glory was a real treat x
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on 07 Oct 2025 Janet Rose said During WW2 we lived in London but often visited Hastings where we had friends. My grandmother used to take me to Dimarco’s for a treat - ice cream was a rare treat then,
She also took me to the White Rock Swimmimg pool as we couldn't go on the beach for the tank traps and mines, and then the White Rock theatre - Richard Murdock and Kenneth well known comedians top of the bill
Many happy childhood memories of Hastings and my dear long suffering Grandmother
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