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  • This is located in the sub-bohemian area known — after its centerpiece in Fitzroy Square — as "Fitzrovia," a neighborhood already familiar to the readers of Anthony Powell, Patrick Hamilton, and Julian Maclaren-Ross.

    Civilization and Its Malcontents 2005

  • This is located in the sub-bohemian area known — after its centerpiece in Fitzroy Square — as "Fitzrovia," a neighborhood already familiar to the readers of Anthony Powell, Patrick Hamilton, and Julian Maclaren-Ross.

    Civilization and Its Malcontents 2005

  • London "Fitzrovia" as a name for the neighbourhood was coined just before the war by Tambimuttu, a unique publisher and editor, whose

    WN.com - Articles related to Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa, British Museum, London 2010

  • I used to work in London years ago, in the area now known as "Fitzrovia" as well as Bloomsbury (which used to encompass Fitzrovia, but I guess the folks over there wanted their own identity).

    The Naked Truth about Literature and Life 2009

  • The former workhouse in the Fitzrovia neighborhood — most recently part of a hospital that closed in 2005 — is one of hundreds of run-down Georgian and Victorian buildings that Londoners pass without a second glance.

    Please, sir, save workhouse tied to 'Oliver Twist,' Britain asked 2011

  • The team behind the acclaimed Garrison and Village East in Bermondsey opened the Riding House Café, an all day Brasserie offering a selection of small plates to share as well as traditional main courses in Fitzrovia.

    Emyr Thomas: London Restaurant, Hotel and Bar Guide: 2011 So Far... Emyr Thomas 2011

  • He and his partner, Adam White, visited 40 New York restaurants last May while planning their latest project, The Riding House Café, which will feature a vast list of handcrafted cocktails when it opens in Fitzrovia this month.

    Ya Want Chips With That? Kathleen Squires 2011

  • The owners of Pied à Terre www.pied-a-terre.co.uk , a two-star Michelin restaurant in London's Fitzrovia district, have taken the food and art concept a step further by appointing an artist-in-residence.

    Food for Art Bruce Palling 2011

  • Although he is a passionate Londoner, for many years a denizen of Fitzrovia, who endured a five-year Cornish exile before settling in south London, his second home (spiritually) is in France.

    Closely guarded secret 2009

  • And yet the book is carefully split into five parts: Prologue (birth), Part I (childhood in India), Part II (boarding school in England), Part III (Fitzrovia), and Epilogue.

    Worth a Seventy-Three Year Wait? « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009

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