Café Royal

In Robert Hichens's *December Love*, the Café Royal appears as a "packed crowd" of "smoke wreaths" and the possible presence of a "tipsy man of genius"—a concentrated image of noisy, performative literary London. ([gutenberg.org](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6616.html.images?utm_source=openai)) Walter Lionel George likewise described its clientele as a place whose "mixed public" had "numbered everybody who did something." Together these passages explain why authors chose it: the Café Royal lets a writer stage wit, status, pose, and artistic ambition in a single room. ([gutenberg.org](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60280.html.images?utm_source=openai))

68 Regent Street, London W1B 4DY, United Kingdom. ([editions.covecollective.org](https://editions.covecollective.org/place/caf%C3%A9-royal?utm_source=openai))