Terry Foreman on 4 Nov 2019  •  Link

Chatelain's, a famous ordinary in Covent Garden, established in the reign of Charles II., and much frequented by the wits and men of fashion in the latter part of the 17th century.https://books.google.com/…'&f=false

Terry Foreman on 4 Nov 2019  •  Link

Inns and Taverns of Old London

Although to-day celebrated chiefly for being the central clearing-house for the flower, fruit and vegetable supply of London, Covent Garden as a whole can vie with any other district of the British capital in wealth of interesting association. The Market itself dates from the middle of the seventeenth century, but the area was constituted a parish a few years earlier. By that time, however, it could boast many town residences of the nobility and several inns. One of these has its name preserved only in the records of the House of Lords, in a letter from a John Dutton t Amsterdam, who wrote to his brother "with Mr. Wm. Wayte, at the sign of the Horseshoe, Covent Garden." But the taverns of greater note, such as Chatelaine's, the Fleece, the Rose, the Hummums, and Macklin's ill-fated ordinary, belong to more recent times.
Which of these houses was first established it would be hard to say. There can be no question, however, that Chatelaine's ordinary was in great repute during the reign of Charles II, and that it continued in high favour throughout the latter years of the seventeenth century. Pepys alludes to it in 1667. and again in his entries of the following year. On the second occasion his visit interfered with toothsome purchases he was making for a dinner at his own house. "To the fishmonger's, and bought a couple of lobsters, abd over to the 'asparagus garden, thinking to have met Mr. Pierce, and his wife, and Knipp; but met their servant coming to bring me to Chatelin's, the French house, in Covent Garden, and there met with music and good company, Manuel and his wife, and one Swaddle, a clerk of Lord Arlington's, who dances and speaks French well, but got drunk, and was then troublesome, and here mighty merry till ten at night. This night the Duke of Monmouth and a great many blades were at Chatelin's, and I left them there, with a hackney-coach attending him." This was a different experience than fell to the lot of Pepys on the previous occasion... https://books.google.com/books?id…'s%20historical%20london%20taverns&f=false

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