travel42 Hotel Review: Hotel Cafe Royal

Hotel Cafe Royal travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Originally opened in 1865, the Hotel Cafe Royal has been a high-society cafe and a decadent nightclub, playing host to the likes of Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf and David Bowie, and was a favorite lunch venue of Winston Churchill and Princess Diana.

Located at the south end of Regent Street, adjacent to Piccadilly Circus, this 19th-century building is part of John Nash's regal design of Regent Street in a classic style of a sweeping colonnaded terrace. ...