73 Regent’s Park Road: The First Proper Restaurant?

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2013 Unoccupied

History:

  • TOBACCONIST Robert Self 1855
  • ” John Jury 1860
  • CONFECTIONER John Rodesano 1870-85

    Regent's Park Road,71-75 (1)

    Denny’s, 1966

  • ” Luke Rodesano 1871-85
  • WARDROBE DEALER Mrs Emma Muschamp 1889
  • CONFECTIONER Mrs Martha Randall 1901
  • ” William Burgess 1905
  • SHOEMAKER Mrs Ellen Sharpe 1910-15

Was a female cobbler unusual?
Did she perhaps make women’s shoes?

  • WARDROBE DEALER Mrs Louisa Dixon 1920-25
  • LAUNDRY A.S. Ruffell 1930
  • BOOKSELLER Miss M. Waterhouse 1935
  • HARDWARE DEALER Harold Barrett 1950
  • COFFEE ROOM Aida 1960
  • FLORIST Denny’s 1966
  • RESTAURANT Mustoe bistro 1970-2004
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Mustoe Bistro, 1972

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Mustoe, about 1983

From the start, Primrose Hill has had various ‘dining rooms’, ‘coffee rooms’ and ‘cafes’. Mustoe’s was probably the first eating establishment in the area which was not merely functional but – with its wooden benches and candles in chianti bottles on bare tables – a ‘trendy’ yet affordable place to go for an evening out: the first proper ‘restaurant’.

  • ANTIQUES Judith Michael & Daughter 2005-?
  • UNOCCUPIED 2013