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Hotel Cafe Royal, London


  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

Hotel Cafe Royal is a glamorous hotel in a Grade II English Listed Building in London, Greater London Authority, United Kingdom. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1895/03/24 Oscar Wilde Life At the Cafe Royal, Frank Harris advises Oscar Wilde to drop his charge of criminal libel against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of Alfred Douglas.
1912/00/00 Up in Regent Street young men wearing tight suits and nail varnish sip creme de menthe in the Cafe Royal. Creme de Menthe Green
1923/12/00 D H Lawrence Life Just before Christmas, Lawrence host a dinner party, The Last Supper, in a private room at the Cafe Royal, London. Buoyant and excited, Lawrence proposes that his friends follow him to Taos in order "to create a utopian society he calls "Rananim".
1928/00/00 Sir Henry Tanner Architect The Cafe Royal, No 68, is rebuilt behind Reginald Blomfield's facade by Henry Tanner, 1923-28, retaining elements of the original decoration of the 1865-72 cafe Royal by Archer and Green, including gilt caryatids and mirrors in the Grill Room.
1937/00/00 "Cafe Royal Cocktail Book by William J Tarling is published by the United Kingdom Bartenders Guild. Cafe Royal Cocktail Book (recipe book)

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Particulars for Hotel Cafe Royal, London:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building

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NHLE List Entry Number: 1227631



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