Café Royal

Café Royal,
a French-style café-restaurant at 68 Regent Street, which was for several decades from the 1880s onwards the haunt of artists and writers and the scene of many artistic gatherings, scandals, and celebrations. Its habitués included Whistler , Wilde , Dowson , A. Symons , Crowley , F. Harris , Firbank , Beerbohm , and G. B. Shaw ; it appeared in the novels of D. H. Lawrence (as The Café Pompadour, in Women in Love ), of Maugham , Arnold Bennett , E. Waugh , and others, and was painted and sketched by Beardsley , Sickert , and others. Its famous Brasserie closed in 1951 . See Café Royal: Ninety Years of Bohemia ( 1955 ) by G. Deghy and K. Waterhouse .