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Status: Open; after closing in 2020, Simpson's reopened in March 2026. (en.wikipedia.org) Literary passage: “something nutritious at Simpson's would not be out of place.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dying Detective (1913). (gutenberg.org) Why it matters: Doyle uses Simpson's as comic restoration: once the danger is over, Holmes wants solid English food and ordinary London comfort. The restaurant's reputation for roast meats and hearty tradition makes the line land as a return from fever, disguise, and criminal grotesquerie to the reassuringly material world. Simpson's also turns up in Forster and Wodehouse, which confirms its literary role as a shorthand for established metropolitan habit. (en.wikipedia.org)