The Original Boho
Café Royal, on London’s Piccadilly Circus, yoked the free spirits with high society – but only for a night. Café Royal isn’t a café. And it certainly isn’t a patsy of café culture. When you step off the feet-heavy Regent Street and into the fane that is Café Royal, a foil of adventure and naughtiness wafts. Posing right in the heart of London, between the elegance of Mayfair and the decadence of Soho, this amusement den for adults has over a century of history under its skirt – and therefore umpteen stories. Just take your pick. Oscar Wilde had his fill of absinthe here and
