Where is Regency Cafe?

At 17-19 Regency Street, in Westminster, London. The nearest station is Pimlico (Victoria) or St James's Park (District, Circle), each about ten minutes on foot.

Which museums and sights are near Regency Cafe?

Westminster Abbey is 650 m away, London Eye is 1.3 km away, The National Gallery is 1.7 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.

What is Regency Cafe known for?

The room, The breakfast, On screen. A workers' café of 1946 behind black tiles in a back street of Westminster, known for its breakfasts and for the voice that calls your order across the room. Ten minutes on foot from Tate Britain.

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Regency Cafe

You queue, order at the counter, find a seat under the photographs of boxers and footballers, and wait for your breakfast to be announced at a volume that stops conversation. Then you fetch it yourself.

What it is: Café
Opened: 1946
Area: Westminster
Nearest museum: Westminster Abbey, 650 m

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What Regency Cafe is known for

The room
Black tiles outside with the name in white capitals, cream tiles inside, Formica tables fixed to the floor and gingham curtains. It has been kept as it was made.
The breakfast
Eggs, bacon, sausage, beans, tomatoes, black pudding, fried bread and tea the colour of teak, cooked to order and in large amounts.
On screen
The café has been a set for many British films and series, Layer Cake and Brighton Rock among them.

What to know

Opened in 1946
Order at the counter and listen for your number
Often used as a film location

Where Regency Cafe is

Address

17-19 Regency Street
London SW1P 4BY, United Kingdom

Nearest station

Pimlico (Victoria) or St James's Park (District, Circle), each about ten minutes on foot

Museums and sights nearby

Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.

A café that stayed as it was

The Regency opened the year after the war ended, on the ground floor of a block of flats between Westminster and Pimlico.

It was bought in 1986 by two Italian families, whose children ran it for thirty years without changing the room.

Regency Cafe: common questions

Where is Regency Cafe?: At 17-19 Regency Street, in Westminster, London. The nearest station is Pimlico (Victoria) or St James's Park (District, Circle), each about ten minutes on foot.
Which museums and sights are near Regency Cafe?: Westminster Abbey is 650 m away, London Eye is 1.3 km away, The National Gallery is 1.7 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.
What is Regency Cafe known for?: The room, The breakfast, On screen. A workers' café of 1946 behind black tiles in a back street of Westminster, known for its breakfasts and for the voice that calls your order across the room. Ten minutes on foot from Tate Britain.
When did Regency Cafe open?: In 1946. Opened in 1946.

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Rating from Google

4.7

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