Hotel Café Royal
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The Hotel Café Royal is a five-star hotel at 68 Regent Street in Piccadilly, London. Before its conversion in 2008–2012, it was a restaurant and meeting place known as the Café Royal.
Hotel Café Royal in 2026
The Café Royal, London by William Orpen, 1912
Conference at the Café Royal restaurant in 1947
Café Royal
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential drama
Hotel Café Royal
…point to have the greatest wine cellar in the world. By the 1890s, the Café Royal had become the place to see and be seen at. Its patrons have included Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, Noël Coward, Brigitte Bardot, J. Paul Getty, Mary Teissier, Max Beerbohm, George…
Wilde photographed by Napoleon Sarony in 1882
The Wilde family home on Merrion Square
Oscar Wilde at Oxford in 1876
Photograph by Elliott & Fry of Baker Street, London, 1881