The Pall Mall Restaurant was a
hostelry situated at Number 1
Cockspur Street,
Westminster
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,
London
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, just off
Pall Mall and near
Trafalgar Square
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. The site was subsequently the offices of the
White Star Line
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, and was then occupied by a
Tex Mex restaurant
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, the Texas Embassy Cantina. Currently the site is unused.
The Pall Mall restaurant is chiefly notable for being the place where the
Rugby Football Union
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was founded on 26 January 1871.
32 men from 21 clubs met and set up the sport's governing committee. A wall plaque commemorating the event was unveiled in 1971 by the Union's president, Sir William Ramsay.
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List of restaurants in London
This is a list of notable restaurants in London, United Kingdom.
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Restaurants in London
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