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Sketch is a restaurant at 9 Conduit Street in Mayfair, London, England, which opened in 2003. The restaurant is owned by Mourad Mazouz, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and the head chef is Pierre Gagnaire . [ 4 ] The cuisine is described as ' New French ', and is a loose adaptation of the cuisine served in Gagnaire's three Michelin-starred restaurant in Paris and ...
Oxford Circus is a road junction connecting Oxford Street and Regent Street in the West End of London.It is also the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.. The junction opened in 1819 as part of the Regent Street development under John Nash, and was originally known as Regent Circus North.
Regent Street is approximately 0.8 miles (1.3 km) long and begins at a junction with Charles II Street as a continuation of Waterloo Place. [a] It runs north to Piccadilly Circus, where it turns left before curving round the Quadrant to head north again, meeting Oxford Street at Oxford Circus. [3]
However, the restaurant was retained, and this time was entirely run by Veeraswamy & Co. In 1925 the restaurant could seat 200 people. [5] [6] [7] Veeraswamy in Regent Street was not the first Indian restaurant in Britain, as the Hindoostane Coffee House in Marylebone had been opened by Sake Dean Mahomed in 1810, closing in 1812. [8]
J. Lyons & Co. was a British restaurant chain store, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate founded in 1884 by Joseph Lyons and his brothers in law, Isidore and Montague Gluckstein. Lyons' first teashop opened in Piccadilly , London in 1894, and from 1909 they developed into a chain of teashops , with the firm becoming a staple of the High ...
Oxford Circus was designed as part of the development of Regent Street by the architect John Nash in 1810. It was later rebuilt (the four quadrants of the circus as seen today were designed by Sir Henry Tanner and constructed between 1913 and 1928).
The flagship store at Oxford Circus, having suffered bomb damage in September 1940 Family grave of Peter Robinson in Highgate Cemetery (west) Peter Robinson was a chain of department stores with its flagship store being situated at Oxford Circus, London. Founded in 1833 as a drapery, Robinson bought up nearby shops on Oxford Street to create a ...
Célestine Nicols with her grand-daughter Louisa Lucie Anne Nicols Pigache in 1879. He Anglicised his name to Daniel Nicols and the couple set up their first venture as the 'Café Restaurant Nicols' at 19 Glasshouse Street near Piccadilly Circus in February 1865, but as its fame spread and it became the place to see and be seen he expanded the premises by buying a shop in Regent Street, behind ...