Simpson's-in-the-Strand - famous London restaurant
Simpson's-in-the-Strand - famous London restaurant. As seen in circa 1830s (postcard from the 1930s). After a modest start in 1828 as a smoking room (as pictured here - Samuel Reiss's Grand Cigar Divan) and soon afterwards as a coffee house, Simpson's achieved a dual fame, around 1850, for its traditional English food, particularly roast meats, and also as the most important venue in Britain for chess in the nineteenth century
Picture No
14021442
Media ID
45830917
Size
5382px x 3321px
(3.4MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1830s
