This cafe is beautiful, and it’s where a lot of Greenbelt business gets done, a lot of Greenbelt chat is chattered, a lot of Greenbelt dreams are dreamed. Now regular customer Pip points me to an article in the Society Guardian detailing the dilemma facing this wonderful jewel at the heart of London, the New Piccadilly , facing closure after the landlords announced their intention to increase the annual rent from £51,000 to £75,000.

Thankfully the New Piccadilly’s owner, Lorenzo “Lolly” Marioni, is fighting it (demanding a rent tribunal). Hopefully the Twentieth Century Society will put some weight behind it, because English Heritage are being no help at all. Viva New Piccadilly!

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 19th, 2005 at 7:16 pmand is filed under General.