Quality Chop House

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SW FARRINGDON ROAD 635-1/73/392 (East side) 01/09/89 No.94 Quality Chop House

GV II

Terraced house, with restaurant. 1890s by Roland Plumber; restaurant early 1900s with (possibly) slightly later facade. Buff bricks laid in Flemish bond to upper floors. Glazed shopfront, canted each side of central mahogany door. Twelve square lights to each side with central three-light strips, those to left reading: 'Quick Service' 'London's noted cup of Tea', 'civility'; those to right reading: 'snacks', 'Progressive Working Class Caterers', 'Best Quality'. Painted wooden sign over. INTERIOR: of restaurant: nine bays of oak benches and oak tables bolted to floor and wall, in two lines with central passage. Benches with parallel backs and end balusters. Benches and tables have ornate cast-iron legs. Linenfold timber panelling with shelf brackets to walls, ceiling and frieze of 'steleorite' decorative tin panels, central pendant gas heater. Dog-leg staircase in corner with end scrolls and turned balusters. Kitchen to rear reached via central door through oak screen with composite pilasters and sliding glazed hatch. Probably unique example of early C20 working class restaurant, surviving complete with all fittings of high quality.

Listing NGR: TQ3121082344