The Fitzroy Tavern

The Fitzroy Tavern is the Charlotte Street pub that gave Fitzrovia its name. It began as the Queen Charlotte coffee house, recorded in 1822, was a pub under its present name by 1856, and was rebuilt in 1897; under landlord Heinrich Hundertmark it was nicknamed "The Hundred Marks", and from 1919 the Kleinfield and Allchild family turned it into the social hub of the district, drawing Augustus John, Nina Hamnett, Walter Sickert, Jacob Epstein, Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Williams and Tommy Cooper among many others. Today it is a pub and restaurant serving twists on traditional British pub food ordered at the bar: small plates, sandwiches at lunch, bar snacks, a Sunday menu and seasonal Christmas menus, with a dining room for parties and private hire, pre-booked grazing menus for groups of ten or more and a darts package.