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A commemorative blue plaque was placed the site of the cafe at number 9 in 2014. Tin Pan Alley plaque in Denmark Street.jpg
A commemorative blue plaque was placed the site of the cafe at number 9 in 2014.

La Gioconda [1] [2] was a cafe at 9 Denmark Street in London's Tin Pan Alley, where musicians such as David Bowie, Dana Gillespie and Elton John would eat and meet other people in the music business. The premises subsequently became the Barino coffee bar. [3] The name was then revived as the Giaconda Dining Room in 2008 which expanded to the Giaconda Dining Rooms before being renamed La Giaconda and then closing in 2014. [4] [5]

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  1. Note that photographs confirm that the original cafe was spelt Gio- rather than Gia-, which now appears on the plaque. See blog by Peter Watts: "Denmark Street and regeneration: slow death or triumphant rebirth?" . Retrieved 13 January 2015.

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References

  1. Peter Watts. "Denmark Street and regeneration: slow death or triumphant rebirth?" . Retrieved 13 January 2015. A popular dive was La Giocondo, a cafe/bar in which most members of the nascent R&B revolution visited at some point or other – David Bowie was said to practically live there.
  2. greatwenlondon. files. wordpress .com/2014/07/ la-gioconda.jpg
  3. Glinert, Ed (2012). "Denmark Street". The London Compendium: A Street-by-street Exploration of the Hidden Metropolis. Penguin. p. 111. ISBN   9780718192044.
  4. Fay Maschler (7 November 2012), "Giaconda Dining Rooms - review", Evening Standard
  5. Jay Rayner (31 August 2008), "Perfect Pitch", The Observer

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