Find your way round London with this indispensable guide to theatre and food, and its history. Contents include: Covent Garden; Suppers at the Lyceum Theatre; George Arliss; James Agate; Historic London Theatrical Restaurants; George Bernard Shaw; John Gielgud; John Betjeman; John Galsworthy; Rupert Brooke; Somerset Maugham; Terence Rattigan; Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson; Alec Guinness; Vivien Leigh; A P Herbert; P G Wodehouse; Noel Coward; Robert Morley; Judy Campbell; Judi Dench; Twenty-five Signed Recipes; A Short History of London Theatre 1900 to 1970. The perfect compendium of fact, fiction and the favourite places of the theatrical and literary personalities of the Golden Era in the West End, offers a guide to some of the most glamorous and historic restaurants in London, famous for their theatrical associations; the Caprice, the Savoy, Rules, the Cafe Royal and the Ivy. There is a range of recipes from the stars of the Golden Age of British theatre, including Rex Harrison, Noel Coward, Vivien Leigh, John Gielgud and Michael Redgrave, many of them classic English recipes but a few surprises as well. Poetry, quotations and anecdotes are included throughout and you will fin