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Simpson’s-in-the-Strand – In literary, in historical, and in contemporary London

By Théophraste Fady | 8 February 2022 | 1

Why write about this? Though the website of Simpson’s-in-the-Strand advertises itself as the “Home of Chess,” this is not what drew me to writing about this almost-two-century old restaurant. I was reading a novel by J.G. Farrell, The Singapore Grip, when I stumbled upon the following passage. “But then, one day in 1925, on a…

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